Pluggable Cable Channel for Protocol Flexibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
The diverse physical layer implementations and mechanical designs of industry standard and proprietary bus protocols require a multitude of differing cable channel constructs to support various interface technologies, making it challenging to achieve flexibility in using different electrical interface protocols within a singular encasement mechanical architecture.
Innovation Solution
The Pluggable Cable Channel provides a flexible solution by using a C-shaped protective sheath in an elongated plug body to create a conduit structure that can secure and route cable channels of varying dimensions, allowing for interchangeable cable channel types within a common external mechanical structure, supporting different internal cable channel types and protocols within the same encasement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different cable channel constructs are used to support various interface technologies, then compatibility with different protocols is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal encasement channel-way structure that can accommodate multiple different cable channel types and interface protocols through a single standardized mechanical architecture, eliminating the need for separate dedicated structures for each protocol while maintaining full compatibility
Solution Approach 2:
The cable channel system is segmented into modular components including the encasement channel-way, cable channel conduits, and interchangeable cable channel types, allowing flexible reconfiguration and protocol changes without redesigning the entire mechanical structure
2Device complexity
If a singular encasement mechanical architecture is used, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different protocols deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The encasement channel-way is designed with dynamic adaptability through standardized interfaces and dimensions that can dynamically accommodate different cable channel types and protocols, allowing the system to adapt its internal configuration while maintaining a static external structure
Solution Approach 2:
Different cable channel types and conduits are nested within the standardized encasement channel-way structure, with each cable channel type containing specific protocol implementations that can be independently replaced or upgraded without affecting the outer encasement structure
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are pluggable cable channels having internal cavities and passageway conduits to provide removable holding devices for data and or power cables in electrical and electronic encasements. Holding a data and or power cable in the pluggable cable channel allows different cables to be used in the same channel-way by changing the plug, thus assisting in the preservation of the enclosure investment and use for different applications. Some embodiments include a cavity to hold the end of the cable, a keyway to pass a length of the cable into the body conduit, and a routing channel in the body to exit the cable to a specific location in relationship to the plug, a set screw or clamp to secure the cable to a location in the plug body, and a body flange to attach the plug to the encasement. The flange may be angled to mate flush with perpendicular and non-perpendicular to the channel-way.