Patent ID: 11892683
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 21:
22. A telecommunications enclosure comprising:
(a) a housing;
(b) a plurality of ruggedized fiber optic adapters secured to the housing, the ruggedized fiber optic adapters including hardened connector ports accessible from outside the housing and non-hardened connector ports accessible from inside the housing;
(c) a flexible film including a main body and a plurality of fiber management tabs, the fiber management tabs including base ends unitary with the main body and free ends positioned opposite from the base ends, the fiber management tabs being capable of being resiliently flexed relative to the main body from an at rest position to a flexed position, the fiber management tabs being co-planar with the main body when in the at rest position, the free ends of the fiber management tabs being offset from the main body when in the flexed position, the main body having a first section and a second section with at least some of the fiber management tabs provided at each of the first and second sections, the main body of the flexible film is movable between a first state in which the first and second sections are generally planar and a second state in which the first and second sections generally oppose one another;
(d) first optical fibers including a first coil portion secured to the first section by a first set of the fiber management tabs;
(e) second optical fibers including a second coil portion secured to the first section by a second set of the fiber management tabs;
the first and second optical fibers being spliced together at splice locations supported by a splice holder attached to the first section;
(g) the first optical fibers extending from the first section to the second section and being secured to the second section by further ones of the fiber management tabs;
(h) the flexible film being mountable in the housing and being oriented in the second state when in the housing; and
(i) the first optical fibers having connectorized ends adjacent the second section that plug into the non-hardened connector ports of the fiber optic adapters.