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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Afl Telecommunications Llc, Duncan, SC (US);
Anthony Nieves, Fountain Inn, SC (US);
Wilfred Courchaine, Moore, SC (US);
Kheng Hwa Seng, Greer, SC (US);
Matthew Johnson, Greenville, SC (US);
AFL Telecommunications LLC, Duncan, SC (US);
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus including: a housing having a splitter compartment; a multiple fiber adapter attached to an exterior of a front housing wall of said housing; a multiple fiber connector connected to said multiple fiber adapter and disposed in an interior of the front housing wall of said housing; an optical splitter in said splitter compartment of said housing; an input fiber optically connected to said optical splitter; and a plurality of output fibers optically connected to said optical splitter and said multiple fiber connector, wherein the housing includes a hinge plate corresponding to a bottom housing wall perpendicular to the front housing wall of said housing in a closed state and mounted on a hinge affixed to said housing at an intersection between the bottom housing wall and a rear housing wall opposite from the front housing wall.