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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2011
Apparatus for plugging multiple connectors with spring loaded sleeves into an adapter simultaneously
Kenneth Y. Chan, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Dennis Denizard, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael J. Fisher, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gilles G. Labbe, Quebec, CA;
James E. Tersigni, Highland, NY (US);
Kenneth Y. Chan, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Dennis Denizard, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael J. Fisher, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gilles G. Labbe, Quebec, CA;
James E. Tersigni, Highland, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided and includes a housing, a block formed to define an array of holes corresponding to an array of plugs into which connectors with spring loaded sleeves are pluggable such that the block engages with a respective sleeve of each connector, the block being supportively disposed within the housing to be movable with respect to the housing between first and second block positions at which the sleeves are extended and retracted, respectively and a cam lever supported on the housing and coupled to the block, which selectively occupies first and second lever positions at which the cam lever causes the block to assume the first and second block positions, respectively.