Abstract:
A field terminal plug assembly including an RJ45 plug connected to a termination zone. The termination zone includes a wire cap, a rear sled, and an electrical board assembly with attached insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) electrically connected to the twisted wire-pairs of assembly cable. The wire cap is configured to terminate twisted wire-pairs of a communications cable to the IDCs when the wire cap is inserted into the rear sled. The IDCs contain at least a first and a second IDC, the first IDC having a first horizontal length and a first vertical length and the second IDC having a second horizontal length and a second vertical length. The first vertical length does not equal the second vertical length but the first vertical length plus the first horizontal length equals the second vertical length plus the second horizontal length.
Abstract:
A vertical cable manager includes a base frame and a door. The base frame has upper and lower support legs and upper and lower crossbars between the support legs. The door has retractable hinge pins at corners of the door. The crossbars have hinge rod receptacles to receive respective hinge pins and elastic latch members having a flexible arm and a catch portion. The catch portions secure the hinge pins in the hinge rod receptacles with the door closed and are deflectable through elastic deformation of the flexible arm to allow travel of the hinge pins through the hinge rod receptacles and past the catch portions when the door is moved from an open to a closed position.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of telecommunication, and more specifically, to communication connectors such as, for example, shielded plug and jack connectors. In an embodiment, the present invention is a communication jack that includes a housing and a front sled assembly having a plurality of plug interface contacts (PICs), the front sled assembly being moveable along a horizontal plane of the communication jack between a first position and a second position, the first position being different from the second position.
Abstract:
A door for a vertical cable manager, the door comprising: a door panel; first and second opposing hinge pin assemblies secured to the door panel and positioned at respective corners of the door panel, each hinge pin assembly including a retractable hinge pin configured to be received by a respective hinge rod receptacle in a crossbar of a the vertical cable manager; a door handle assembly; and a cable assembly connected at opposite ends to the opposing hinge pin assemblies and extending through the door handle assembly; wherein rotation of the door handle assembly pulls the cable assembly in a direction away from the hinge pin assemblies, which moves the retractable hinge pins of the respective hinge pin assemblies from an extended position to a retracted position.
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to the field of network communication. In an embodiment, the present invention is a breakaway RJ45 cable assembly (26) that includes a standard RJ45 plug (28) inserted into a modified RJ45 jack (32) that, upon a sufficient amount of tension, releases the installed standard RJ45 plug. To insure that, as tension builds up in the cable assembly, the connection between the modified RJ45 jack and the patch cord (34) to which the standard RJ45 plug is connected to experience tension substantially along the plug and jack body lengths the breakaway cable assembly is installed in the middle of a communication channel.
Abstract:
A door for a vertical cable manager, the door comprising: a door panel; first and second opposing hinge pin assemblies secured to the door panel and positioned at respective corners of the door panel, each hinge pin assembly including a retractable hinge pin configured to be received by a respective hinge rod receptacle in a crossbar of a the vertical cable manager; a door handle assembly; and a cable assembly connected at opposite ends to the opposing hinge pin assemblies and extending through the door handle assembly; wherein rotation of the door handle assembly pulls the cable assembly in a direction away from the hinge pin assemblies, which moves the retractable hinge pins of the respective hinge pin assemblies from an extended position to a retracted position.
Abstract:
A field terminal plug assembly including an RJ45 plug connected to a termination zone. The termination zone includes a wire cap, a rear sled, and an electrical board assembly with attached insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) electrically connected to the twisted wire-pairs of assembly cable. The wire cap is configured to terminate twisted wire-pairs of a communications cable to the IDCs when the wire cap is inserted into the rear sled. The IDCs contain at least a first and a second IDC, the first IDC having a first horizontal length and a first vertical length and the second IDC having a second horizontal length and a second vertical length. The first vertical length does not equal the second vertical length but the first vertical length plus the first horizontal length equals the second vertical length plus the second horizontal length.