Patent ID: 6031907
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: H01R,H02G

Abstract:
A building entrance box providing an interface between a signal transmission media cable having a first plurality of filamentary signal transmission elements and a second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements, the box being divided into a splice chamber receiving the cable and a connector chamber receiving the second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements, and wherein a connector field is disposed in the connector chamber to which the second plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements is terminated and a third plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements extends from the splice chamber to the connector chamber, with each of the third plurality of individual filamentary signal transmission elements being terminated at one end to the connector field and at the other end to a respective cable element, the box comprising:a housing having a substantially planar base wall adapted for mounting to a support and a plurality of substantially planar surrounding walls each substantially perpendicular to said base wall so as to define an open enclosure containing said splice chamber and said connector chamber;a substantially planar chassis plate mounted within said open enclosure spaced from and parallel to said base wall and disposed within said connector chamber, said chassis plate adapted to have said connector field mounted thereon, said chassis plate further having an edge adjacent said splice chamber;a grounding connector mounted to said chassis plate adjacent said chassis plate edge; anda ground conductor connected at one end to said grounding connector and at the other end to said cable;wherein when said building entrance box is stacked above another building entrance box, the ground conductor of the lower one of the boxes is routed into the splice chamber of the lower box, into the splice chamber of the upper box, and is connected to the grounding connector of the upper box.