Splice Tray Routing Layout for Compact Fiber Closure Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telecommunications equipment frames face challenges in managing cables efficiently to avoid tangles and maintain compact size while ensuring easy access to equipment and cables.
Innovation Solution
A splice equipment assembly with first and second cable routing paths extending along opposite sides of splice trays, allowing for efficient management of cables and easy access to splice trays, with features like pivotable covers and removable trays for easy maintenance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If cables are routed through a compact frame structure, then space savings are achieved, but cable management becomes difficult and tangles occur
Solution Approach 1:
The frame is divided into multiple compartments and sections, with dedicated cable management areas separated from equipment mounting areas. This segmentation allows cables to be organized in specific zones without interfering with equipment access, resolving the contradiction between compact size and cable manageability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes vertical space and multi-level routing paths within the frame structure. Cables are routed through designated channels that extend in multiple dimensions, allowing efficient cable management without increasing the horizontal footprint of the frame.
2Ease of operation
If splice trays are made accessible for easy maintenance, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The splice trays are designed to be movable along rail systems within the frame. This dynamic configuration allows trays to be easily accessed, removed, or repositioned for maintenance without requiring complex disassembly of the frame structure, thus improving ease of operation while maintaining structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame structure is pre-configured with access panels, guide rails, and mounting mechanisms that facilitate easy splice tray access. These preliminary structural elements are built-in during manufacturing, so that during operation, maintenance personnel can access splice trays without encountering structural barriers or complexity.
3Productivity
If multiple cable routing paths are provided for high-capacity splicing, then productivity increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple independent cable routing paths are created by segmenting the frame into separate routing channels. Each path is clearly defined and isolated, allowing high-capacity splicing operations with multiple cables to proceed simultaneously without interference, while the segmented structure keeps each individual routing path simple and manageable.
Data Source
AI summary
A splice equipment assembly includes two routing paths along opposite sides of a splice region. The two routing paths do not cross. The two routing paths do not extend circumferentially around the splice region. The two routing paths provide adequate slack to allow a splice tray to be removed from the splice region and moved to a workstation outside of the splice equipment assembly. Multiple splice equipment assemblies can be mounted to the same rack (e.g., at a front and rear of the rack).