Angled RJ to RJ Patch Panel

• US 20080108253A1
• Filed: 07/08/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Clark, Gordon P., Schmidt, John, Mattson, Loren
• Granted Patent: US 7,686,658 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/676
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/465 Identification means, e.g. labels, tags, markings H01R9/2475, H01R9/2683 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/506 assembled by snap action of the parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/518 for holding or embracing several coupling parts, e.g. frames
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/743 integral with the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/04 for network, e.g. LAN connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/64 for high frequency, e.g. RJ 45
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/006 the coupling part being secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. duplex wall receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/06 Cable ducts or mountings specially adapted for exchange installations
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/13 Patch panels for monitoring, interconnecting or testing circuits, e.g. patch bay, patch field or jack field; Patching modules

Abstract

A patch panel including a plurality of electrical connector assemblies, each of the electrical connector assemblies including a first jack presented on a first side of a panel frame of the patch panel and a second jack electrically linked to the first jack to form a jack pair and presented on a second side of the panel frame. Both the first jack and the second jack are presented at an angle with respect to the panel frame, and both the first jack and the second jack may be engaged using a patch cord. The first and second jack of each jack pair are at a 90-degree angle relative to one another.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A telecommunications patch panel comprising:

a panel frame including a first panel side and a second panel side; and

a first jack pair coupled to the panel frame, the first jack pair including a first jack that is electrically connected to a second jack, the first jack being accessible from the first panel side and the second jack being accessible from the second panel side, and the first jack and the second jack having a first directional component facing in a same direction.

16. The telecommunications patch panel of claim 15, wherein the first jack is positioned at a first angle less than 90-degrees in relation to the first panel side.

17. The telecommunications patch panel of claim 15, wherein the second jack is positioned at a second angle less than 90-degrees in relation to the second panel side.

18. The telecommunications patch panel of claim 15, further comprising at least one third jack disposed on the first panel side, such that the third jack is positioned at a third angle less than 90-degrees in relation to the first panel side;

and at least one fourth jack disposed on the second panel side, such that the fourth jack is positioned at a fourth angle less than 90-degrees in relation to the second panel side, the third jack electrically connected to the fourth jack to form a second jack pair, each jack of the second jack pair having a directional component facing in a second direction opposite to that of the first direction of the first jack pair.

19. The telecommunications patch panel of claim 15, wherein the first jack is coupled to the second jack through a connector location defined by the panel frame, such that the first jack forms a 90-degree angle with respect to the second jack.

20. The telecommunications patch panel of claim 19, wherein the first jack pair is coupled to the patch panel via a notch defined in a first edge of the first jack sized to engage a first surface of the connector location and a locking tab and a shoulder positioned on a second edge of the first jack so as to engage a second surface of the connector location.