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Granted Patent B2
US 12,693,481 · App. 17/917,223 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Module interface for telecommunications closure

Inventors: Bart Mattie Claessens (Hasselt, BE); Stefan Sepelev (Wavre, BE)
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
G02B6/3897G02B6/3825G02B6/4442G02B6/4446G02B6/4454
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Patent No.
US 12,693,481
App. No.
17/917,223
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A telecommunications closure including a closure body defining an interior. An organizer is located within the interior of the closure body. The organizer including a base, a cable seal, a cable management device, and a mounting interface; wherein the mounting interface includes a mating interface including a plurality of mating shapes which interface with one another. The mating shapes include at least one lower protrusion and a recess, wherein the recess is larger than the lower protrusion, and at least one mounting tab. The mating shapes can include V-shapes.

Claims (10)

1 . A mounting interface comprising:

a cable management device and a mating device;

wherein the cable management device includes a base portion;

a plurality of fiber optic adapters mounted to an upper surface of the base portion for receiving mating connectors on the upper surface of the base portion along an axial direction;

a plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped protrusions on a lower surface of the base portion, each pair of V-shaped protrusions of the plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped protrusions in axial alignment and parallel to the axial direction;

a plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped recesses on an upper surface of the mating device for mating with the plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped protrusions, each pair of V-shaped recesses of the plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped recesses in axial alignment and parallel to the axial direction;

wherein each pair of V-shaped protrusions of the plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped protrusions engages with one of the pairs of V-shaped recesses of the plurality of pairs of oppositely facing V-shaped recesses, wherein relative movement of the cable management device and the mating device in the axial direction is prevented by the engagement of the pairs of V-shaped protrusions and corresponding pairs of V-shaped recesses;

a plurality of flexible tabs on the cable management device which interlock with a plurality of mating shoulders on the mating device; and

a plurality of clips on the cable management device which interlock with a plurality of mating slots on the mating device;

wherein engagement of the plurality of flexible tabs on the cable management device with the plurality of mating shoulders on the mating device, and engagement of the plurality of clips on the cable management device with the plurality of mating slots on the mating device prevents relative movement of the cable management device and the mating device in a direction transverse to the axial direction.

Assignments (6)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AT REEL/FRAME 067252/0657 Recorded Jan 12, 2026
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC; COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC; COMMSCOPE NORTH CAROLINA, LLC (F/K/A COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA)
Reel/Frame 074593/0348 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AT REEL/FRAME 067259/0697 Recorded Dec 19, 2024
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (F/K/A ARRIS ENTERPRISES, INC.); COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA; COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 069790/0575 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2024
From: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC; COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC; COMMSCOPE INC., OF NORTH CAROLINA; OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC; RUCKUS IP HOLDINGS LLC
To: APOLLO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY LLC
Reel/Frame 069889/0114 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (TERM) Recorded Apr 29, 2024
From: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC; COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC; COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 067259/0697 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (ABL) Recorded Apr 29, 2024
From: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC; COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC; COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 067252/0657 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2022
From: CLAESSENS, BART MATTIE; SEPELEV, STEFAN
To: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 061325/0655 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63005907 · Apr 6, 2020
Related Publication 20230152545A1 · May 18, 2023
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