| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7090516 |
Protective boot and universal cap |
August 15, 2006 |
| A protective endcap for use with a triaxial cable connector. The endcap is sized to fit about a mating end of the triaxial connector. A pair of protective boots for use with coaxial cable connectors. Each protective boot includes an interior space for receiving a triaxial cable connector |
| 7090084 |
High density panel with rotating tray |
August 15, 2006 |
| The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooper |
| 7086898 |
Coaxial cable Y-splitter assembly with an integral splitter body and method |
August 8, 2006 |
| A coaxial cable signal splitter with first, second and third connector ends, each adapted to mate with a coaxial cable connector. The first connector end is integral with a splitter body. The second and third connector ends are connected to the body by a pair of coaxial cables. Each |
| 7086539 |
High density panel with rotating tray |
August 8, 2006 |
| A telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the h |
| 7083475 |
Jack insert assembly with cross-connect contacts |
August 1, 2006 |
| The present disclosure relates to a jack assembly including a jack mount having a front side and a rear side. A jack of the assembly is adapted to be slidably mounted in a jack receiving region of the jack mount. The jack assembly also includes a plurality of cross-connect contacts, and |
| 7083469 |
Modular mounting sleeve for jack |
August 1, 2006 |
| A coaxial connection assembly including a coaxial jack. The jack is positioned within a longitudinal opening of a housing. The first end of the jack extends through a first end of the housing and the second end of the jack extends through a second end of the housing. The jack may only |
| 7083051 |
Cable management assembly, system and method |
August 1, 2006 |
| A cable management assembly, and method related thereto, including a riser panel having an interface portion and a plurality of cable management devices. The interface portion having a plurality of shaped apertures. The cable management devices having attachments that correspond to the |
| 7082041 |
Power supply filtering |
July 25, 2006 |
| A power supply is filtered while the amount of in-rush current required by the capacitive charging of the filter is limited. A resistor may be placed in parallel with a relay where the parallel combination is in series with the filtering capacitor. The relay is open upon applying pow |
| 7079744 |
Cable management panel with sliding drawer and methods |
July 18, 2006 |
| An optical fiber cable management panel includes drawer assemblies, each including a drawer slidable within a chassis. The drawer assemblies are secured together by a bracket that includes an interlock arrangement with the chassis. Such an interlock arrangement includes a non-threaded st |
| 7076130 |
Semiconductor optical device having asymmetric ridge waveguide and method of making same |
July 11, 2006 |
| In order to reduce the possibility of a laser operating in multiple transverse modes at high power, the laser is provided with laterally asymmetric losses that discriminate against modes higher than the fundamental mode. One approach to doing this is form an asymmetric ridge waveguid |
| 7075903 |
Reduced power consumption in a communication device |
July 11, 2006 |
| A method for controlling power consumption in a communication device is provided. The method includes powering down a receiver of the communication device for a selected period of time and, when the selected period of time expires, powering up the receiver to check for incoming data. |
| 7075789 |
Mechanical housing |
July 11, 2006 |
| An apparatus for containing objects, such as electronic circuit cards, and a method for making the same, the apparatus having a housing; at least one case disposed within the housing, the case adapted to confine the objects to different locations within the housing and comprising a frame |
| 7075656 |
Method and algorithm for continuous wavelength locking |
July 11, 2006 |
| A method for locking the wavelength of a laser uses a non-planar etalon, for example a non-parallel etalon, to produce a periodic spatial interference pattern, typically in the light reflected from the non-planar etalon. At least three different portions of the interference pattern a |
| 7074080 |
Modular mounting sleeve for jack |
July 11, 2006 |
| A coaxial connection assembly including a coaxial jack. The jack is positioned within a longitudinal opening of a housing. The first end of the jack extends through a first end of the housing and the second end of the jack extends through a second end of the housing. The jack may only |
| 7070457 |
Telecommunications connector |
July 4, 2006 |
| The present disclosure relates to a connector having a connector body. A housing mounts over the connector body. The housing is adapted for securing the connector to another element such as a piece of telecommunications equipment. |
| 7070448 |
Coaxial/triaxial adapter assembly including an adapter and interchangeable connector ends and me |
July 4, 2006 |
| An adapter for connecting coaxial cable connectors. The adapter has first and second ends for mounting cable connectors for various genders and styles as required for connecting two existing cable connectors. The connectors may be selectively changed as required to mate with the gender |
| 7068906 |
Fixture for system for processing fiber optic connectors |
June 27, 2006 |
| A fixture for an automated connectorization system for processing fiber optic connectors. The fixture can include a first and second portions configured to hold the connectors. The first portion can include a plurality of clamps, each clamp being configured to clamp onto one of the c |
| 7066771 |
Angled RJ to RJ patch panel |
June 27, 2006 |
| 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 pre |
| 7065095 |
Telecommunication network with variable address learning, switching and routing |
June 20, 2006 |
| A ring network for transporting data packets between network devices is provided. The ring network includes a number of ring switches. Each ring switch has at least one ring port, at least one local port and at least one table that self learns which network devices are associated with ea |
| 7060901 |
Cover for cable trough |
June 13, 2006 |
| Systems and methods for covering a trough member. A system can include a hinge clip coupled to a sidewall of the trough member and having arms creating a socket. The system can include a cover including a pivot member and a groove at one end. The pivot member can be received in the s |
| 7054163 |
Multi-interface patch panel system |
May 30, 2006 |
| A patch panel system including a chassis and a plurality of modules. The chassis includes elongated structures configured to interconnect top, bottom and side portions of the chassis. The elongated structures are also configured to receive and secure a printed circuit board and the p |
| 7050234 |
Lossless beam combination in a dual fiber collimator using a polarizing beamsplitter |
May 23, 2006 |
| A compact, in-line polarization combiner uses a folded, reflective optical path from a first fiber to a second fiber. The combiner includes first and second fibers at one end of an in-line package, and a third fiber at the other end of the in-line package. A first polarization-dependent |
| 7044803 |
High density patching system with longframe jacks |
May 16, 2006 |
| A patching system is disclosed herein. The patching system includes a plurality of front-loaded patching modules positionable within a chassis. Each of the patching modules includes first and second longframe jack assemblies and a switch for changing the circuit configurations of the |
| 7041897 |
Hinge for cable trough cover |
May 9, 2006 |
| Systems and methods for covering a trough member. A system can include a hinge clip coupled to a sidewall of the trough member and having arms creating a socket. The system can include a cover including a pivot member and a groove at one end. The pivot member can be received in the s |
| 7039399 |
Distribution of wireless telephony and data signals in a substantially closed environment |
May 2, 2006 |
| A communication system is provided. The communication system includes a host unit that is adapted to communicate wireless telephony signals with a telephony network and adapted to communicate wireless data with at least one data network. A communication link carries both the wireless |
| 7038782 |
Robust wavelength locker for control of laser wavelength |
May 2, 2006 |
| An apparatus for locking the wavelength of a laser uses a non-planar etalon, for example a non-parallel etalon, to produce a periodic spatial interference pattern, typically in the light reflected from the etalon. The apparatus also uses a detector to detect the spatial interference |
| 7035671 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent noise reduction in a distributed communication system |
April 25, 2006 |
| A wireless distribution system includes a number of remote units distributed in a coverage area to receive wireless signals and to provide the signals through the distribution system to input ports of an expansion unit where the signals are combined, detectors operatively connected t |
| 7035510 |
Fiberoptic furcation device with crimp |
April 25, 2006 |
| A cable breakout assembly comprising: a cable furcation device joining a cable including an outer jacket and an inner optical fiber, to an upjacket. The upjacket includes an inner tube for receiving the optical fiber, a stranded strength member outside the inner tube, and an outer tu |
| 7031335 |
Digital node for hybrid fiber/coax network |
April 18, 2006 |
| An optical distribution node is provided. The optical distribution node includes a laser transceiver that is coupleable to at least one fiber optic link. The optical distribution node communicates upstream and downstream digital data with the head end over the at least one fiber opti |
| 7029325 |
Triaxial connector adapter and method |
April 18, 2006 |
| The present invention relates to a center conductor insulator with a tapered entry for use with a coaxial cable transmission line connector that provides guiding and centering of a center conductor pin within the connector. The present invention further relates to a front sleeve asse |
| 7029323 |
High density mount for a co-axial connector |
April 18, 2006 |
| The present disclosure relates to a connector having a main body portion and a housing portion. The housing mounts over the connector main body. The housing is adapted for securing the connector to another element such as a piece of telecommunications equipment. |
| 7029195 |
Coupler for cable trough |
April 18, 2006 |
| Couplers for a cable trough system including a terminal end sized to receive a terminal end of a trough member along a longitudinal direction of the body. A spring may be coupled to the body for securing the terminal end of the trough member to the coupler, the spring including first |
| 7018245 |
Termination panel with fanning strips and pivotal cover |
March 28, 2006 |
| A DSX system arranged to receive a plurality of high-density chassis is disclosed. The chassis include back planes having rear access IN/OUT fields and rear access cross-connect fields. The rear access IN/OUT fields are electrically connected to termination structures and panels loca |
| 7012686 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting end surfaces on optical connectors |
March 14, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus fix relative rotation between an optical connector about an axis that runs longitudinally through the optical connector and an inspection machine. In one method, an optical connector is releasably secured to a cage member having an extending flange. The optical |
| 7010076 |
Systems and methods for holdover circuits in phase locked loops |
March 7, 2006 |
| Improved phase locked loops are described which handle momentary breaks in an input communication channel. The phase locked loops provide the capability to "hold" the output clock in a communication system at or very near the last output frequency before the loss of input data. Such |
| 7005996 |
Power distribution panel with modular inserts |
February 28, 2006 |
| A power distribution panel with a chassis defining an interior with a first opening and a second opposing opening. The panel including a module with a bottom, a first face and a second face, and including a power input terminal, a plurality of power output terminals, and an electrical |
| 7002898 |
Asymmetrical transport of data |
February 21, 2006 |
| A system is described which provides bidirectional transport of data at different data rates for each direction over a shared medium. In one embodiment, the different data rates are accomplished using different modulation techniques. For example, in the downstream direction, quadratu |
| 6999663 |
Fiber optic tap |
February 14, 2006 |
| An improved fiber optic tap monitor has characteristics that are flatter over the wavelength range of interest. The polarization dependence of the characteristics of the tap monitor is reduced, and the package for the tap monitor is smaller. The tap monitor reduces the amount of light |
| 6997744 |
Triaxial bulkhead connector |
February 14, 2006 |
| A bulkhead connector for connecting to a transmission line comprising a rear portion mounted within an opening in a bulkhead with a first end including first and second threads on a first side of the bulkhead and a second end extending through the opening to a second opposing side of the |
| 6994593 |
Rear access DSX system |
February 7, 2006 |
| A DSX system for receiving removable jack inserts is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of chassis rearward facing cross-connect arrays and rearward facing IN/OUT arrays. A first circuit board section and a second circuit board section are electrically connected to the arrays. Th |
| 6992777 |
Birefringent Mach-Zehnder interferometer |
January 31, 2006 |
| An interferometer uses birefringent elements for splitting and combining beams of orthogonal polarization, and for changing the relative phase between the orthogonally polarized beams. A polarization sensitive detector is used to detect a fringe pattern whose periodicity is dependent |
| 6992257 |
Electronic signal transmission and switching jack |
January 31, 2006 |
| The present invention relates to an electronic signal switching module with connectors on a first side for connecting with a variety of devices and sources and with jacks for receiving patch cords on a second side. The switching modules include two position switches in the circuitry |
| 6992249 |
Clamping receptacle |
January 31, 2006 |
| A method for confining circuit cards to different locations within a housing is provided. The housing includes a frame having an array of slots, each containing one of the circuit cards. In one embodiment, the receptacle has a cam that is selectively engageable with the frame for cla |
| 6991491 |
Bulkhead connector system including angled adapter |
January 31, 2006 |
| An angled mounting plate is provided for mounting a connector at a bulkhead in an angled manner, such as for a coaxial or triaxial connector system. The angled mounting plate mounts to a yoke mounted around the connector. The yoke includes identical mounting halves held in place by f |
| 6987921 |
Ferrule polishing fixture |
January 17, 2006 |
| The present disclosure relates to a device for holding a plurality of fiber optic connectors. The device includes a clamp defining a plurality of ferrule receiving openings, a set plate with openings for the fibers, an alignment surface on which the ferrules rest, and an actuator for |
| 6987664 |
Finger guard for power distribution panel |
January 17, 2006 |
| A finger guard for an electrical circuit breaker includes a rear plate with an opening, a guard portion extending from the plate adjacent the opening, and a removable portion, or knock-out, positioned within the opening. A further finger guard for an electrical circuit breaker includ |
| 6981750 |
Retainer for hinged door |
January 3, 2006 |
| An assembly for managing cables in a telecommunications installation where the cable management troughs directing cables from telecommunications equipment mounted to an equipment rack to a vertical cable way allow air flow into a ventilation space located between the equipment rack and t |
| 6980565 |
Circuit and method for shaping traffic in a virtual connection network |
December 27, 2005 |
| A method for controlling the data rate of a virtual connection. Data packets are received for transmission on the virtual connection. The method comprises buffering the data packets in a buffer. A counter signal is generated to indicate the beginning of timeslots in a measurement win |
| 6974352 |
Telecommunications jack assembly |
December 13, 2005 |
| An electrical connector including a circuit board, a contact spring insert, and an insulation displacement terminal insert wherein the contact spring insert is positioned between the insulation displacement terminal insert and the circuit board. The insert assembly can be mounted to a ja |
| 6973501 |
Reducing loss in transmission quality under changing network conditions |
December 6, 2005 |
| An apparatus for dynamically controlling the delivery of data over a network is provided. The apparatus includes a network interface circuit with at least one communication port adapted to be coupled to a network. The apparatus further includes an encoder that is communicatively coupled |
