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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 27, 1999
Richard Wynn Curry, Fountaintown, IN (US);
Timothy Charles Miller, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Ronald Lee Wild, Carmel, IN (US);
Avaya Technology Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A cable management assembly for use with equipment racks wherein equipment panels are fastened along vertical mounting rails of the rack. In one embodiment, the assembly includes an elongated trough having a back wall, a bottom wall and a front wall. The back wall is constructed to be fastened to the mounting rails of the equipment rack, and the bottom wall extends a sufficient distance forward so that the trough accommodates wire or fiber optic cables terminated at one or more equipment panels fastened to the rack above the back wall of the trough. A door has its bottom edge hinged to the front wall of the trough, and the door extends at a first position to protect cables terminated at one or more equipment panels mounted on the rack above the back wall of the trough. The door can be swung to a second position to permit access to the cables and the panels at which they terminate.