Telecommunications chassis, module, and bridging repeater circuitry

• US 7,224,947 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2005
• Issued: 05/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Sit, Eric, Anderson, John P., Steinkogler, Gary L., Berg, Robin Jr., Streitz, David J., McClellan, Brian J., Comer, Eric, Skradde, Steven N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Phu; Sanh D.
• Application Number:
  US11/126,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20050208904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 455/7, 455/9, 455/90.3, 455/347, 455/348, 455/349, 455/575.1, 439/64, 439/61, 439/347
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/03 Constructional details, e.g. casings, housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/036 Cooling arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/08 Constructional details, e.g. cabinet
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/03 Power distribution arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/035 Cooling of active equipments, e.g. air ducts
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/116 lightning or EMI protection, e.g. shielding or grounding
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/155 characterised by connection features
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2201/02 Details of frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2201/06 Cooling arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2201/12 Printed circuits

Abstract

A telecommunications chassis, module, and repeater circuit for use with signals having data rates including STM-1 (155.52 megabits per second) are disclosed. The chassis provides structures for establishing shielding and heat dissipation for the circuitry modules it contains including an outer and an inner Faraday box with an integrated ventilation pattern for circulating air. The module provides its own structures for establishing shielding and heat dissipation including a Faraday box and a ventilation pattern. The repeater circuit provides the ability to bridge a data signal between a monitor jack of one device and a higher signal level input jack of another device through multiple amplification stages and circuit board structures. The telecommunications chassis, module, and repeater circuit can be used in conjunction.

Claims

1. A telecommunications circuit module, comprising:

a printed circuit board including circuitry, wherein the circuitry includes repeater circuitry receiving an input signal, recovering data and clock information from the input signal, and creating an output signal repeating the data and clock information, and wherein the input signal is a monitor signal, the repeater circuitry including an amplification portion with a current feedback operational amplifier and a voltage limiting operational amplifier and including a transceiver portion;

a metal backplate substantially parallel to but within a different spatial plane from the printed circuit board;

a metal shell having a frontplate, a top surface perpendicular to and extending from the frontplate, a bottom surface substantially parallel to the top surface and extending from a side of the frontplate away from the top surface, and a back surface perpendicular to the front plate and the top and bottom surfaces, wherein the top surface, bottom surface, and back surface each has a folded edge that abuts the metal backplate to establish metal to metal contact; and

a metal jack holder extending perpendicularly from the printed circuit board and abutting the front plate, top surface, and bottom surface to establish metal to metal contact along a side away from the back surface, and wherein at least a portion of the circuitry is disposed between the frontplate and the backplate and between the metal jack holder and the back surface.

2. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 1, wherein the top and bottom surfaces of the metal shell have a plurality of holes.

3. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 2, wherein the metal backplate, metal shell, and metal jack holder are aluminum.

4. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 1, wherein the monitor signal and the output signal have data rates greater than about 52 megabits per second.

5. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 1, wherein the metal backplate has mounting fins extending from the edges contacting the top and bottom surfaces of the metal shell.

6. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 1, wherein the back surface has an aperture surrounding a connector extending from the printed circuit board.

7. The telecommunications circuit module of claim 1, further comprising a faceplate abutting the metal jack holder.