Rotatable Telecommunications Chassis with Pivotable Panels

Solution Overview

Problem

In telecommunications, achieving high density and standardization while ensuring effective cable management and easy access to components is challenging, particularly in equipment design.

Innovation Solution

A telecommunications chassis with rotatable and pivotable panels that provide multiple receptacles for equipment mounting, allowing for cable management and access to all major components, featuring a central longitudinal axis and pivotable panels that can rotate relative to a fixed surface for enhanced accessibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If high density mounting arrangement is used to accommodate standard sized equipment, then equipment density is improved, but cable management and access to components deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveequipment densityVSAvoidcable management and component access

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The chassis is divided into multiple panels (front, rear, left, right sides) that can be independently pivoted. Each panel contains receptacles for mounting equipment, allowing operators to access specific components by pivoting only the necessary panel rather than opening the entire chassis. This segmentation enables high-density mounting while maintaining ease of access to individual components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The panels are designed to be pivotable rather than fixed, providing dynamic access to equipment mounted on different sides of the chassis. The pivot mechanism allows panels to rotate between a closed position (for compact, high-density mounting) and an open position (for cable management and component access), resolving the contradiction between density and operability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Quantity of substance

If multiple receptacles are provided on all sides of the chassis, then equipment capacity is improved, but access to all components deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveequipment capacityVSAvoidaccess to components

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The chassis is divided into multiple panels (front, rear, left, right sides) that can be independently pivoted. Each panel contains receptacles for mounting equipment, allowing operators to access specific components by pivoting only the necessary panel rather than opening the entire chassis. This segmentation enables high-density mounting while maintaining ease of access to individual components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent distributes receptacles across multiple spatial dimensions (front, rear, left, and right sides of the chassis) rather than concentrating them on a single face. This multi-dimensional arrangement maximizes equipment capacity within the available space while the pivotable panel mechanism provides dimensional access, allowing operators to reach components from the most convenient direction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of operation

If chassis is made rotatable about central longitudinal axis, then accessibility to all sides is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to all sidesVSAvoidchassis mechanism complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The chassis is divided into multiple panels (front, rear, left, right sides) that can be independently pivoted. Each panel contains receptacles for mounting equipment, allowing operators to access specific components by pivoting only the necessary panel rather than opening the entire chassis. This segmentation enables high-density mounting while maintaining ease of access to individual components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The panels are designed to be pivotable rather than fixed, providing dynamic access to equipment mounted on different sides of the chassis. The pivot mechanism allows panels to rotate between a closed position (for compact, high-density mounting) and an open position (for cable management and component access), resolving the contradiction between density and operability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9986654B2High density telecommunications chassis with cable management

Publication Date: 2018.05.29 COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA

AI summary

A telecommunications chassis is configured for receiving telecommunications equipment. The chassis defines a top, a bottom, a front side, a rear side, a right side, and a left side. The chassis defines a central longitudinal axis extending between the top and the bottom. A first pair of panels is located at the front side, a second pair of panels is located at the rear side, a third pair of panels is located at the right side, and a fourth pair of panels is located at the left side. Each panel defines a plurality of receptacles for receiving the telecommunications equipment. When mounted to a fixed surface, the chassis is rotatable relative to the fixed surface about the central longitudinal axis. Each panel is pivotable away from the other panel of the any given pair of panels about a pivot axis parallel to the central longitudinal axis.