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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2000
Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, Durham, NC (US);
William Laird Dungan, Cary, NC (US);
Pat Gallarelli, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Todd William Justus, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark John Lawrence, Cary, NC (US);
Timothy Andreas Meserth, Durham, NC (US);
Lisa Michele Vizer, Baltimore, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and structure for managing computer hardware cable media is provided, featuring a support having a frontal face, at least one flange, and at least one curved surface projecting from the support frontal face for receiving and guiding cable media. The curved surface has a radius sufficiently large enough to receive and redirect cable media by bending the cable media without cracking or causing other damage to the cable media. The flange is connected to a computer rack system rail so that support is overlapping at least one hardware component connected to the computer rack system, thereby allowing a portion of the rack space occupied by the flange and the support to be utilized by other hardware components, increasing the effective usable space of the rack system. Cable media are received onto the curved surface, redirected by bending along the curved surface, and ultimately distributed in discrete bundles of cable media to hardware devices. The discrete bundles of cable media are spaced from any other cable media, so that the bundle of cable media may be disconnected from its associated hardware device or otherwise manipulated by hand without disturbing any other cable media.