Grounding device for fiber storage trays

• US 7,454,113 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2006
• Issued: 11/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bison Patent Licensing, LLC
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Barnes, Kathleen M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sanghavi; Hemang
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROJAS, OMAR R
• Application Number:
  US11/489,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20080025682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 385/135
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4453 Cassettes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49204 Contact or terminal manufacturing

Abstract

A cable management panel having a grounding arrangement. The grounding arrangement including a rolling ground strap interconnected to each of a drawer and a chassis of the cable management panel. The rolling ground strap being arranged to include a loop that rolls along the length of the ground strap.

Claims

1. A cable management panel, comprising:

a) a drawer and a chassis, the drawer being selectively positionable in an open position and a closed position;

b) a slide assembly interconnected to the drawer and the chassis, the slide assembly providing sliding movement of the drawer relative to the chassis; and

c) an electrical grounding arrangement, including;

i) a rolling ground strap having first and second ends each interconnected to one of the drawer and the chassis, the rolling ground strap defining a loop located between the first and second ends;

ii) wherein the loop of the rolling ground strap lengthens and shortens in response to movement of the drawer, and wherein the loop has a height and a length, the height of the loop remaining generally constant during movement of the drawer.

2. The panel of claim 1, wherein the rolling ground strap rolls between a shorter-loop position and a longer-loop position generally without lateral movement.

3. The panel of claim 1, wherein the rolling ground strap rolls forward and rearward within a discrete region, the discrete region having a width approximately equal to a width of the ground strap.

4. The panel of claim 1, wherein the height of the loop is defined by a bend radius of the ground strap, the bend radius being between about 0.5 and 1.0 inches.

5. The panel of claim 1, wherein loop is located adjacent to the first end of the ground strap when the drawer is in the open position, and wherein the loop is located adjacent to the second end of the ground strap when the drawer is in the closed position.

6. The panel of claim 1, wherein a curved loop end of the loop rolls along the length of the ground strap during movement of the drawer.

7. The panel of claim 1, wherein the rolling ground strap has a flat rectangular cross-section.

8. The panel of claim 7, wherein the flat rectangular cross-section of the rolling ground strap defines a width, the width being between about 0.100 and 0.250 inches.

9. The panel of claim 7, wherein the flat rectangular cross-section of the rolling ground strap defines a thickness, the thickness being between about 0.003 and 0.006 inches.

10. The panel of claim 1, wherein the electrical grounding arrangement provides an electrical pathway along which electrical occurrences are dissipated.

11. A cable management panel, comprising:

a) a drawer and a chassis, the drawer being selectively positionable in an open position and a closed position;

b) a slide assembly interconnected to the drawer and the chassis, the slide assembly providing sliding movement of the drawer relative to the chassis; and

c) an electrical grounding arrangement, including;

i) a ground strap having a flat rectangular cross-section that defines a width, the ground strap including a first end secured to the chassis and a second end secured to the drawer, the ground strap including a loop located between the first end and the second end;

ii) wherein the loop of the ground strap has a height and a length, the length of the loop increasing and decreasing in response to movement of the drawer, the ground strap being contained within a discrete region during movement of the drawer, the discrete region having a width approximately equal to a width of the ground strap.

12. The panel of claim 11, wherein the ground strap rolls between a forward position and a rearward position relative to movement of the drawer.

13. The panel of claim 12, wherein the ground strap rolls generally without lateral movement.

14. The panel of claim 12, wherein the ground strap further includes a first side and a second opposite side, each of the first and second ends of the ground strap being secured to the respective chassis and drawer such that the same one of the first and second sides is mounted flush with each of the chassis and the drawer.

15. The panel of claim 11, wherein the height of the loop remains generally constant during movement of the drawer.

16. The panel of claim 11, wherein a curved loop end of the loop rolls along a length of the ground strap during movement of the drawer.

17. The panel of claim 16, wherein the curved loop end of the loop is located adjacent to the first end of the ground strap when the drawer is in the open position, and wherein the curved loop end is located adjacent to the second end of the ground strap when the drawer is in the closed position.

18. The panel of claim 11, wherein the electrical grounding arrangement provides an electrical pathway along which electrical occurrences are dissipated.