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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard G. Kusyk, Ottawa, CA;
Richard G. Murphy, Kanata, CA;
Bruce Irwin Dolan, Kanata, CA;
Craig Donald Suitor, Nepean, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/200 ;
Abstract
A shelf for housing printed circuit packs in which a backplane has a connector along its top or bottom edge. Connector modules are connected to the backplane by vertical attachment to the backplane edge connector such that the connector modules are located above or below the backplane. The connector modules may be oriented either to be front facing or rear facing. The backplane connector is adapted to accept modules of varying widths and having different connectors thereon.