Grant Joseph Kruse

6654255, Nov 25, 2003

Dec 1, 2000

09/734321

Grant J. Kruse - Huntsville AL
James B. Coker - Harvest AL

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H05K 714

361799, 361796, 361726, 361728, 361729, 361730, 361600, 211 4117, 174 521, 3122231

An apparatus is provided for mounting electrical equipment on a wall. A mounting plate is mounted on the wall. The mounting plate includes a lip defining a linear channel extending across the front of the mounting plate. An equipment enclosure includes a complementary upward extending hanger for engaging the linear channel. A ground strip is attached to the wall plate below the linear channel. The equipment enclosure can be positioned at any point along the length of the linear channel by engaging its complementary hanger therewith and pivoting the enclosure downward until its rear surface engages the mounting plate and a grounding lug thereof engages the ground strip.

7734040, Jun 8, 2010

Mar 25, 2008

12/054687

Grant Joseph Kruse - Owens Cross Roads AL, US

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H04M 1/00
H04M 9/00

379451, 379441

A modular housing for outside plant telecommunication equipment includes a main enclosure for containing common electronic equipment and an auxiliary enclosure for containing input/output (I/O) circuitry to said common electronic equipment. In this way, different configurations of I/O circuitry can be accommodated only by changing the auxiliary enclosure. The design and fabrication times for making housings is reduced by the smaller size of each enclosure. Upgrades can often be accommodated by only changing one of the main or auxiliary housings.

7855891, Dec 21, 2010

Mar 25, 2008

12/054735

Grant Joseph Kruse - Owens Cross Roads AL, US
Jacob Daniel McCleary - Harvest AL, US

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H05K 7/20
F28F 7/00
H01L 23/34

361711, 361704, 361719, 165 802, 165185, 174547, 174252, 174548, 257713, 312236

A housing for an outside plant telecommunication equipment (OSP) which uses modular heat sink assemblies. OSP housings contain electronic circuit boards on which are mounted electrical components that generate heat. Thermal conductors or mesas contact the electrical components to conduct heat from the components to the environment. Rather than create single purpose housings with cast thermal conductors, the improved housing uses heat sink plates which can easily be swapped out to accommodate a variety of electronic circuit boards that might be needed within a general purpose housing. Together with faster turnaround time to create a new design for a housing, lower manufacturing and inventory costs result.

7915544, Mar 29, 2011

Jun 5, 2008

12/133403

Grant J. Kruse - Owens Cross Roads AL, US
Jacob D. McCleary - Harvest AL, US

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H01L 23/02
H05K 5/06

174564, 174 77 R

Signals entering outside plant (OSP) telecommunications enclosures typically do so through weather tight connectors, with one connector mounted to the enclosure and a mating connector connected to a cable bringing the signals to the OSP housing. Such connectors are expensive and require extensive effort to connect the wires of a cable bundle to the connectors. These problems are avoided by allowing cables pre-installed with a cable seal and pre-terminated to cable connectors to pass through an opening in the wall of an OSP housing and seal the cable bundle to the housing to prevent the ingress of environmental elements into the housing through the opening. This permits easier installation and retrofitting of electronic equipment contained within the housing.

8247708, Aug 21, 2012

Jan 25, 2011

13/012850

Grant J. Kruse - Owens Cross Roads AL, US
Jacob D. McCleary - Harvest AL, US

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H01L 23/02
H05K 5/06

174564, 174 77 R, 174657

Signals entering outside plant (OSP) telecommunications enclosures typically do so through weather tight connectors, with one connector mounted to the enclosure and a mating connector connected to a cable bringing the signals to the OSP housing. Such connectors are expensive and require extensive effort to connect the wires of a cable bundle to the connectors. These problems are avoided by allowing cables pre-installed with a cable seal and pre-terminated to cable connectors to pass through an opening in the wall of an OSP housing and seal the cable bundle to the housing to prevent the ingress of environmental elements into the housing through the opening. This permits easier installation and retrofitting of electronic equipment contained within the housing.

57837775, Jul 21, 1998

Sep 20, 1996

8/717499

Grant Joseph Kruse - Huntsville AL
James Brian Coker - Huntsville AL
Jacob Daniel McCleary - Huntsville AL

Adtran, Inc. - Huntsville AL

H02G 314
H05K 503

174 66

A blank, or dummy, face plate element engages top and bottom edges of a cabinet frame, directly behind a front panel card insertion opening that provides access to multiple card slots of an electronic equipment rack. The dummy face plate includes a rearwardly projecting, upper lip, that is located adjacent to a top edge of the face plate, and has a notch immediately adjacent to the rear surface of the face plate. The notch fits within and is captured by an upper edge of the cabinet frame. A rearwardly projecting, generally U-shaped, flexible lower lip is provided adjacent to a lower edge of the face plate and includes a pair of finger grips. The flexible lower lip has a ridge that becomes aligned with the lower edge of the faceplate when the lower lip is flexed upwardly toward the first lip, and a notch adjacent to the ridge that is captured by the cabinet frame. Card-simulating wall portions extend from the face plate alongside the upper and lower lips and are sized and shaped to fit within and slidably engage upper and lower card insertion tracks of an empty card slot, as the dummy face plate is installed.

20210325616, Oct 21, 2021

Apr 14, 2021

17/230025

- Huntsville AL, US
Jon M. CHALMERS - Madison AL, US
Grant J. KRUSE - Owens Cross Roads AL, US

G02B 6/42

An electronic module cage for receiving an electronic module (such as a pluggable optical module (POM)), includes a cage body mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB), the cage body having a first opening configured to receive an electronic module, the cage body comprising a spring feature, the spring feature configured to apply a biasing pressure to the electronic module in a direction away from the printed circuit board and toward a heat dissipating element such that a surface of the electronic module contacts the heat dissipating element through a second opening in the cage body.