Rapid deployment packaging for optical fiber

• US 9,927,591 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ott, Michael James
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, ERIC K
• Application Number:
  US15/282,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• Field of Search: 385 53, 385139
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3897 Connectors fixed to housings, casing, frames or circuit boards G02B6/44528 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4453 Cassettes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4455 characterised by the way of extraction or insertion of the cassette in the distribution frame, e.g. pivoting, sliding, rotating or gliding
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4457 Bobbins; Reels
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4471 Terminating devices demountable connectors G02B6/3807; Cable clamps
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/545 Pulling eyes G02B6/475 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A packaging arrangement for telecommunications cabling is disclosed herein. The packaging arrangement includes a modular spool assembly defined by a first flange, an opposing second flange, and a spool hub separating the first flange from the second flange, wherein a telecommunications cable may be wound between the first and second flanges. Each flange defines a first cable contact side, a second cable-end storage side, and an opening allowing the telecommunications cable to pass from the first side to the second side, the second side defining a storage compartment for storing an end of the telecommunications cable passing through the opening in the flange.

Claims

1. A cable deployment structure comprising:

a carrier including a retention structure for holding a telecommunications device terminated to an end of a telecommunications cable, wherein the carrier is configured to be daisy-chained and pulled together with other similar carriers for deployment of cabling attached to the carriers;

the carrier including a first interlock structure and a second interlock structure, wherein the first interlock structure of the carrier is configured to be directly interlocked with the second interlock structure of another similar carrier for coupling the two carriers together without the use of an intermediate coupling structure, and wherein the second interlock structure of the carrier is configured to be directly interlocked with the first interlock structure of a third similar carrier for coupling the three carriers together without the use of an intermediate coupling structure so as to enable daisy-chaining the carriers.

2. A cable deployment structure according to claim 1, wherein the carrier is configured to house two telecommunications devices, each terminated to a different telecommunications cable.

3. A cable deployment structure according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunications device is a fiber optic connector.

4. A cable deployment structure according to claim 1, wherein the fiber optic connector is an MPO connector.

5. A cable deployment structure according to claim 1, wherein the telecommunications device is a fiber optic cassette configured to separate out multiple fibers of a fiber optic cable to a plurality of connection locations.

6. A cable deployment structure according to claim 5, wherein the connection locations are defined by first fiber optic connectors, each having a ferrule.

7. A cable deployment structure according to claim 6, wherein the fiber optic cassette includes fiber optic adapters for connecting the first fiber optic connectors with second fiber optic connectors incoming from an exterior of the cassette.

8. A cable deployment structure according to claim 7, wherein the fiber optic adapters are SC adapters.

9. A cable deployment structure according to claim 7, wherein the fiber optic adapters are LC adapters.

10. A cable deployment structure according to claim 1, wherein the carrier is configured to be coupled to other similar carriers with a snap-fit interlock.