EP0890207A1 - Dispositif de raccordement, notamment pour reseau a fibres optiques - Google Patents
Dispositif de raccordement, notamment pour reseau a fibres optiquesInfo
- Publication number
- EP0890207A1 EP0890207A1 EP97919433A EP97919433A EP0890207A1 EP 0890207 A1 EP0890207 A1 EP 0890207A1 EP 97919433 A EP97919433 A EP 97919433A EP 97919433 A EP97919433 A EP 97919433A EP 0890207 A1 EP0890207 A1 EP 0890207A1
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- Prior art keywords
- shutter
- housing
- flap
- pivot axis
- flanges
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
- A47B21/06—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
- G02B6/44—Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres, e.g. optical transmission cables
- G02B6/4439—Auxiliary devices
- G02B6/4471—Terminating devices ; Cable clamps
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
- H02G3/00—Installations of electric cables or lines or protective tubing therefor in or on buildings, equivalent structures or vehicles
- H02G3/02—Details
- H02G3/08—Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes
- H02G3/18—Distribution boxes; Connection or junction boxes providing line outlets
- H02G3/185—Floor outlets and access cups
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
- A47B21/06—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
- A47B2021/066—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables with power or communication connection interface
Definitions
- the present invention relates to the field of equipment connection devices duly equipped on a local network, in particular in optical fibers.
- Optical fibers have long been reserved for long and medium distance communications with high information rates. However, we are now seeing a gradual advance in fiber optics in local business networks. Optical fiber is gradually arriving at the terminal access points of the subscriber, that is to say that it directly serves workstations equipped with electro-optical interface cards.
- connection device can nevertheless be used for other optical connections, for example in the context of multimedia applications.
- connection device comprising a housing 10 recessed in a plinth, a shutter 20 pivotally hinged on the housing 10, about an axis 22 which coincides with the front face 12 of the housing 10 and a support 30 linked to the flap 20 and which carries connectors 40.
- the device is opened by pivoting the flap 20, as illustrated in FIG. 2.
- This known device has the advantage of having a minimum size when the socket is not used.
- such a device has a major drawback: in the open position, required during all use in the connected position, it has a fairly large footprint (see Figure 2).
- the present invention aims to provide a connection device having a minimum size, both at rest and in use in the connected position. It is also intended to provide a dust seal around the connectors.
- a device of the type comprising a housing and a shutter flap pivotally articulated on the housing, opposite an opening contour thereof, characterized in that the shutter shutter comprises a cylindrical dome centered on the pivot axis and by the fact that the pivot axis is set back relative to the front face defining the opening contour of the housing.
- the pivot axis of the shutter flap is located at a distance from the front face of the housing substantially equal to the radius of the cylindrical dome.
- FIG. 1 and 2 previously described schematically illustrate a connection device according to the state of the art, respectively in the closed position and in the open position
- FIG. 3 and 4 show two similar views in section of a connection device in accordance with the present invention, respectively in the closed position and in the open position
- Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 show an alternative embodiment of a housing according to the invention, Figure 5 being a front face, Figures 6 and 7 two orthogonal side views and Figure 8 a sectional view according to the section plane VIII-VIII of FIG. 5, of this box,
- FIG. 9 shows an alternative embodiment of a shutter shutter according to the invention, Figure 9 showing a front view of this shutter while Figures 10 and 11 show two orthogonal side views and Figure 12 a sectional view along the plan section XII-X1I of FIG. 9,
- FIGS. 13 and 14 show plan views of two connector supports capable of being used in the context of the invention
- FIGS. 15 and 16 show two views respectively similar to FIGS. 3 and 4 of an alternative embodiment of the device fitted with seals, and
- Figures 17, 18 and 19 schematically illustrate the use of the connection device according to the invention, Figure 17 showing a sectional view similar to Figure 3 of the device in the closed position, Figure 18 showing a sectional view similar to Figure 4 of the device in the open position and in the connected state, and Figure 19 shows a front view of the device.
- connection device essentially comprises a housing or support block 100, a shutter flap or tilting body 200, a support
- this device can be completed by a cover plate 500.
- the housing or support block 100 comprises a frame 110 and two flanges 120, 130.
- the frame 1 10 is preferably rectangular. It defines an opening contour 1 12 which is itself rectangular and corresponds to the front face 114 of the housing.
- the two flanges 120, 130 are mutually parallel and orthogonal to the frame 1 10. They are connected to the longitudinal members 1 15,
- the two flanges 120, 130 each have a through bore 122, 132, in its thickness.
- the two bores 122, 132 are coaxial, of axis O.
- the center of the bores 122, 132 is located at a distance from the front face 1 14 substantially equal to the radius of a cylindrical dome 210 belonging to the shutter 200.
- These bores 122, 132 are intended to receive additional pins 222, 232 coaxial provided on part 200.
- the flanges 120, 130 include means for indexing the flap 200 between a closed position as illustrated in FIG. 3 and an open position as illustrated in FIG. 4. These indexing means are designed to ensure self-maintenance shutter 200 compared to housing 100 in any one of these two closed and open positions, while allowing movement of the flap 200 between these two positions under the effect of a stress.
- indexing means are formed of at least one elastic tab 140 provided with a recess or a through bore 142 designed to receive at least one complementary lug 242.
- the elastic tab 140 is secured to the housing 100, while the lug 242 is secured to the pivoting flap 200.
- the reverse arrangement can be adopted.
- the elastic tab can be provided on the pivoting flap while the additional indexing lug is provided on the housing 100.
- two elastic tabs 140, 144 can be provided on a flange of the housing 100, designed to cooperate with respective lugs 242, 244 provided on the pivoting flap 200, depending on whether the latter is placed in the closed position as illustrated in FIG. 3 or in the open position as illustrated in FIG. 4.
- FIGS. 5 to 12 it is possible to provide a first elastic tab 140 on one of the flanges 130, to cooperate with a lug 242 provided on a first flange 230 of the shutter 200, and a second elastic tab 144 on the second flange 120 to cooperate with a second lug 244 provided on a second flange 220 of the shutter 200.
- a first elastic tab 140 on one of the flanges 130, to cooperate with a lug 242 provided on a first flange 230 of the shutter 200, and a second elastic tab 144 on the second flange 120 to cooperate with a second lug 244 provided on a second flange 220 of the shutter 200.
- Means capable of limiting the amplitude of pivoting of the flap 200 relative to the housing 100 are also provided. These limiting means can be the subject of different embodiments.
- these limiting means consist of a central beam 150 provided on at least one of the flanges 120, 130 of the housing 100 and serving as a stop for the lugs 242, 244 depending on the position occupied by the shutter shutter 200.
- the means limiting the pivoting of the shutter 200 relative to the housing 100 are constituted by means provided on the shutter 200 and coming into abutment against one at less of the crosspieces 117, 1 18 of the frame 110.
- these limiting means are formed, for the closed position, by a pin 250 projecting from the cylindrical dome 210, to come into abutment against the cross member 1 17 , and for the open position, by ribs 260 projecting from the cylindrical dome 210 and adapted to come into abutment against the cross member 1 18, supplemented where appropriate by the fields of the flanges 220, 230 of the flap 200 capable of coming into abutment against the cross member 117.
- a pin 250 projecting from the cylindrical dome 210
- ribs 260 projecting from the cylindrical dome 210 and adapted to come into abutment against the cross member 1 18, supplemented where appropriate by the fields of the flanges 220, 230 of the flap 200 capable of coming into abutment against the cross member 117.
- one of the cross members 1 17 parallel to the axis of rotation of the flap 100 is preferably formed of an inclined plane, for example at 45 ° relative to the opening contour of the housing 100, towards the axis of rotation.
- Such an inclined plane 117 extends parallel to the opening channel of the device, and facilitates the installation of the connection means.
- At least one of the flanges 120, 130 can be equipped with an elastic tongue with teeth 160 making it possible to immobilize the housing 100 by snapping into a plinth or in a complementary faceplate 500.
- the shutter or tilting body 200 essentially comprises a cylindrical dome 210 centered on its axis of rotation and two flanges 220, 230, mutually parallel and perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
- This tilting body 200 has in its general form two planes of symmetry. One parallel to the two flanges 220, 230 and the other passing through the axis of rotation.
- the two coaxial pins 222, 232 designed to penetrate the bores 122, 132 are provided on the exterior surfaces of the flanges 220, 230.
- the device further comprises a plate 300 serving to support the connectors 400.
- This support plate 300 is planar. It comprises means for fixing connectors 400.
- These fixing means can be the subject of numerous embodiments. Preferably, these fixing means are formed of bores
- Such bores 310, 312 can be the subject of various configurations as illustrated in FIGS. 13 and 14.
- the support plate 300 can be molded with the shutter 200 or attached and attached to this shutter 200 by any suitable means.
- the support plate 300 is attached to the flap 200 and fixed in the plane of symmetry of the flap 200 passing through the axis O by means of protuberances 320, 322, 324, 326 provided on the edges of the support plate 300 and designed to engage in complementary housings 270, 272 formed on the flanges 220, 230.
- the connectors 400 can be fixed to the support plate 100 by various means such as screwing, snap-fastening, etc.
- the connector support 300 itself can be molded into one or more shaped parts to define itself all of the crossing connectors.
- the projections 260 provided on the outer surface of the cylindrical dome 210 are preferably formed of rectilinear ribs parallel to the pivot axis. Their function is to facilitate the handling of the shutter 200. Those skilled in the art will readily understand that the axis of rotation of the shutter 200 being located at a distance from the front face 1 14 of the housing 100 substantially identical to the radius of the cylindrical dome 210, the size of the device is unchanged whether the position of the shutter 200, open or closed.
- the casing 450 comprises a wall 455 orthogonal to the frame 110, a wall 456 parallel to this frame, arranged on the bottom of the housing 100, and side walls 458 .
- a first seal 452 is located at the base of the inclined plane face 1 17 of the frame 110.
- a second seal 454 is disposed on the end of the wall 456.
- the support 300 is placed in the axis of the housings 270, 272 and pushed towards the bottom of the dome 210 until the lugs 320, 322, 324, 326 engage by elastic deformation of the flanges 220, 230 in the aforementioned dwellings.
- the engagement of the projections 320, 322, 324 and 326 in the housings 270, 272 ensures a positioning jump of the support 300 by preventing it from pivoting in the body 200.
- the assembly 200, 300 thus obtained is then introduced into the housing 100.
- said assembly is introduced between the flanges 120, 130 to position the pins 222, 232 in the bores 122, 132 by elastic deformation of the flanges 120, 130 .
- the device can be kept in the closed position of the shutter 200 as long as a connection is not required, as illustrated for example in FIG. 17.
- the invention is not limited to the connection of optical fibers, as indicated above, but can also be applied to the connection of electrical conductors.
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR9603960 | 1996-03-29 | ||
FR9603960A FR2746931B1 (fr) | 1996-03-29 | 1996-03-29 | Dispositif de raccordement, notamment pour reseau a fibres optiques |
PCT/FR1997/000558 WO1997037413A1 (fr) | 1996-03-29 | 1997-03-27 | Dispositif de raccordement, notamment pour reseau a fibres optiques |
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EP0890207A1 true EP0890207A1 (fr) | 1999-01-13 |
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EP97919433A Withdrawn EP0890207A1 (fr) | 1996-03-29 | 1997-03-27 | Dispositif de raccordement, notamment pour reseau a fibres optiques |
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US (1) | US6435729B1 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP0890207A1 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2746931B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1997037413A1 (fr) |
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WO1997037413A1 (fr) | 1997-10-09 |
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