US 7,591,677 B2
High density coaxial jack and panel
Todd Bade, Inver Grove Heights, Minn. (US); Zakh Bluband, Minnetonka, Minn. (US); and Jeffrey Louis Peters, Eagan, Minn. (US)
Assigned to ADC Telecommunications, Inc., Eden Prairie, Minn. (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/408,589.
Prior Publication US 2007/0249221 A1, Oct. 25, 2007
Int. Cl. H01R 13/60 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—540.1  [439/668] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coaxial panel comprising:
a frame;
a mounting frame mounted to the frame; and
a coaxial jack mounted to the mounting frame, the coaxial jack including coaxial cable connection locations;
wherein the mounting frame includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a first sidewall and a second sidewall, the top and bottom walls of the mounting frame including first intermating structures for slidably coupling a first mounting frame to a second identical mounting frame in a vertical configuration wherein one mounting frame is configured to be coupled on top of another mounting frame and wherein the first and second sidewalls of the mounting frame also include second intermating structures for slidably coupling a first mounting frame to a second identical mounting frame in a horizontal configuration wherein one mounting frame is configured to be coupled to another mounting frame in a side-by-side configuration, the first and second intermating structures being for slidably coupling a first mounting frame to a second identical mounting frame in a sliding direction, wherein the first and second intermating structures are configured such that two coupled mounting frames cannot be pulled apart in a direction generally perpendicular to the sliding direction, the top and bottom walls of the mounting frame including snap fit structures for interlocking with the frame for snap fitting the mounting frame to the frame, at least some of the snap fit structures formed integrally with the first intermating structures on at least one of the top wall and the bottom wall of the mounting frame.