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Enclosure for outside plant equipment with interconnect for mating printed circuit boards, printed circuit board device and method of repairing outside plant equipment

Granted 2 Apr 2013 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Wells Fargo · originally Adtran, Inc.

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Inventors: Jacob D. McCleary · Examiner: Michail V Datskovskiy · AU 2835 · TC 2800

Application
12/942,048
filed 9 Nov 2010
Publication
Not published
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US 8,411,445
granted 2 Apr 2013

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Abstract

An enclosure for outside plant equipment includes a base unit and first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) carried by the base unit and having a circuit side and opposing component side on which electronic components are mounted. A heat sink is connected to the first PCB at the circuit side and configured to dissipate heat from any electronic components mounted on the first PCB at the component side. A cover is attached to the base unit and has an inside surface covering the enclosure. A second PCB has a circuit side and opposing component side on which electronic components are mounted. The second PCB is supported by the inside surface of the cover. A heat sink is connected to the second circuit board at the circuit side and configured to dissipate heat from any electronic components mounted on the second PCB. A PCB finger connector interconnects the first and second PCB\'s at the component side.

Claims

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Classifications

13 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H05K7/20
USPC · US Patent Classification
361/721361/711439/75439/66361/679.54361/709165/185165/104.33165/80.3361/704439/134439/74

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Pendency
2.4 y
875 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
2
1 RCE
Examiner
Michail V Datskovskiy
art unit 2835 · TC 2800
Citations: 24 back · 0 forward

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