Patent ID: 6924989

Claim:
A wire component management system comprising: a rack having a plurality of posts; at least one drawer, being mounted to the posts of the rack, the drawer having a pair of outside walls, a pair of movable side walls and a component mounting board located between and being movable together with the movable side walls; and a hinged wire manager being mounted between one of the movable side walls and one of the outside walls, the hinged wire manager having first and second arms being connected to each other by a hinge having a pin passing through respective pin receiving openings formed in each arm; each arm having a wire receiving passageway defined by top, bottom and side walls and having an opening adjacent the pin; wherein a wire is managed through the hinged wire manager by passing through the wire receiving passageway of the first arm, being looped around the pin, passing through the wire receiving passageway of the second arm and being connected to a component on the component mounting board and the wire exits each opening adjacent the pin and is passed through a crossover point wherein the wire is crossed over itself to close a wire loop around the pin.