US 11,809,007 B2
Optical component housing box
Yoshihiro Kouyama, Komaki (JP); and Takayuki Yokochi, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on May 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/327,003.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-102367 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0389538 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/44 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/4441 (2013.01) 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical component housing box configured to be housed in a rack, the optical component housing box comprising:
a housing in which an optical component is housed; and
a bracket attached to a side surface of the housing, the bracket including:
a fixing portion fixed to the housing;
an attachment portion configured to be screwed into one of a plurality of screw holes opened in support pillars provided on both sides of the rack; and
a hinge portion configured to move the attachment portion relative to the fixing portion,
wherein when attaching the optical component housing box to the rack, after the bracket passes between the support pillars by the hinge portion being closed and the attachment portion falling to a fixing portion side as the housing is moved into the rack from a side opposite to a direction in which the attachment portion is to be screwed to the support pillar, the attachment portion is attached to the support pillar in a state of standing up relative to the fixing portion.