US 12,169,318 B2
Telecommunications equipment frame
James J. Solheid, Minneapolis, MN (US); Rodney C. Schoenfelder, Shakopee, MN (US); Scott Jean Anderson, Burnsville, MN (US); James J. Brandt, St. Louis Park, MN (US); Matthew J. Holmberg, Le Center, MN (US); Patrick James Thompson, Prior Lake, MN (US); and David Patrick Percival, Tabernash, CO (US)
Assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/269,656
Filed by COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/047182
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/041255, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/720,057, filed on Aug. 20, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/720,784, filed on Aug. 21, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/803,961, filed on Feb. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0173165 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/44 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/4452 (2013.01) [G02B 6/44526 (2023.05); G02B 6/44528 (2023.05); G02B 6/4454 (2013.01); G02B 6/4457 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A splice equipment assembly comprising:
a housing having a height extending between a top and a bottom, a width extending between a first side and a second side, and a depth extending between a rear and an open front providing access to an interior of the housing;
a trunk cable port disposed at the top of the housing to provide access to the interior of the housing;
at least one equipment cable port disposed at the second side of the housing to provide access to the interior of the housing;
a splice tray assembly disposed within the housing, the splice tray assembly including a frame and a plurality of splice trays mounted to the frame, each splice tray being movable between a stowed position and an access position;
a first guide member arrangement disposed at an inner surface at the first side of the housing to define a first cable routing path between the trunk cable port and the splice tray assembly; and
a second guide member arrangement disposed at an inner surface at the second side of the housing to define a second cable routing path between the at least one equipment cable port and the splice tray assembly, the second cable routing path not overlapping the first cable routing path;
wherein the interior of the housing includes a first region and a second region that is spaced apart from and disposed below the first region along a vertical column, wherein the splice tray assembly is a first splice tray assembly disposed in the first region, and wherein a second splice tray assembly is mounted within the housing in the second region that is positioned below the first region along a vertical column, wherein the first cable routing path extends along the first side and the rear of the housing, and wherein the second cable routing path extends along the second side and the rear of the housing, wherein a plurality of splice trays of the second splice tray assembly is spaced apart from the plurality of splice trays of the first splice tray assembly, wherein the first and second cable routing paths service the first region, and wherein additional first and second cable routing paths service the second region, each of the first cable routing paths generally aligned along a vertical column and positioned between the first and second splice tray assemblies and the first side of the housing, and each of the second cable routing paths generally aligned along a vertical column and positioned between the first and second splice tray assemblies and the second side of the housing, wherein each of the splice trays of the plurality of splice trays of the first splice tray assembly and the plurality of splice trays of the second splice tray assembly is mounted to the housing so as to be separately pivotable between the stowed position and the access position about a pivot axis that is parallel to a direction extending from the first side toward the second side of the housing and that is perpendicular to the vertical columns defined within the housing;
wherein each of the splice trays of the plurality of splice trays of the first splice tray assembly and the plurality of splice trays of the second splice tray assembly is mounted to the housing such that first and second major faces of each splice tray are oriented perpendicular to a plane defined along the vertical columns within the housing and parallel to the direction extending from the first side toward the second side of the housing; and
wherein the at least one equipment cable port is one of a plurality of equipment cable ports extending through the second side of the housing, the plurality of equipment cable ports being disposed in a vertical column and being spaced along a majority of a height of the second side, wherein the first and second splice tray assemblies are positioned within the housing and aligned along a single vertical column so as to span a majority of all the equipment cable ports that are provided on the second side of the housing.