Fiber Optic Cable Organizer With Angled Side-Access Grooves
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fiber optic cables are difficult to manage in tight and narrow spaces between groove plates and pivotally mounted trays in cable organizers, making it challenging to guide them onto trays efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A cable organizer with angled access grooves and channels on a groove plate that pivotally mounts fiber optic trays, providing improved accessibility and guiding mechanisms to ease handling of cables onto trays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If pivotally mounted trays are used on a groove plate, then fiber optic cable management capacity is improved, but the tight and narrow spaces make it difficult to guide fiber optic cables onto the trays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces access grooves that extend from the side surface of the groove plate into its interior, creating a new spatial dimension for cable access. This side access pathway allows cables to be guided onto trays from the side rather than through the tight front-facing space, effectively adding a dimensional route that bypasses the original spatial constraint
Solution Approach 2:
The access grooves act as intermediary structures that facilitate the transition of fiber optic cables from the external environment to the interior tray mounting area. These grooves provide a dedicated guiding pathway that mediates between the cable entry point and the tray loading zone, making the cable guidance process easier by providing a structured intermediate route
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AI summary
A cable organizer for fiber optic cables includes a support structure, and a groove plate mounted to the support structure. The groove plate has an access groove for managing fiber optic cables on the groove plate. Fiber optic trays are pivotally mounted to the groove plate, and each fiber optic tray is configured to manage an optical fiber from the fiber optic cables. The access groove is at an angle relative to the fiber optic trays to provide a side access to the fiber optic cables.