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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5313370 | Component carrier for insertable circuit boards The present invention relates to fastening elements for guide rails at the support rails of a component carrier which is provided to accommodate printed circuit boards equipped with electrical components. The fastening elements are configured as U-shaped ... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5305183 | Portable personal computer with passive backplane having a doublesided staggered connector array A portable personal computer that utilizes a combination of an open ended card cage and a passive backplane with a double-sided staggered array of connectors that allows for the horizontal placement of a large number of computer circuit boards in a low pr... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5297009 | Device for locking in a rack a drawer for electronic board(s) This device for locking in a rack the front face (2) of a drawer (1) for electronic board(s) comprises a bolt (9) mounted so as to slide on the front face between a position locking it in a strike plate (11) carried by the rack and an unlocking position, ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293303 | Circuit board injector/ejector device for a circuit board enclosure A circuit board injector/ejector device for use with a circuit board to be accommodated in a rack housed in an enclosure comprises a body adapted to be secured to a front plate secured to the circuit board and a lever pivotally mounted on the body. The de... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5285353 | Support bar for circuit boards Disclosed is a support bar for mounting a circuit board to a housing or case. The support bar includes top and bottom, spaced apart, parallel, substantially straight legs. A base connects the legs so that the legs and the base form a U-shaped groove for r... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5283713 | Injector/ejector system for a plug-in module and apparatus using the systems The grip of a plug-in module according to the present invention is rotatably supported on the upper side of a circuit board. A first end portion of the grip includes a convex portion which engages with a recessed portion in the housing to prevent the plug... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5268821 | Shared pc board ejector/injector tool A tool (10) inserts and removes printed circuit boards (55) from a card cage (50) holding a plurality of such boards. The tool (10) has a guide (20), mounted on the card cage, a slider (30) slidably mounted to the guide, and lever arm (40), pivotally moun... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5267658 | Fastening device The present invention relates to a fastening device for component carriers in system housings. Profiled fastening members are here fastened to the front frame bars of the system housings, each supporting two parallel arranged and oppositely oriented mount... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5259783 | Dual height card retainer An easy to engage and disengage dual height card retainer that facilitates removal of daughterboards is disclosed. Daughterboards have a two-tier staggered arrangement above the motherboard. Each daughterboard has a signal transfer end that electrically c... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5259516 | Clamp mechanism A clamp mechanism (19) for clamping the edge (17) of a printed circuit board (11) between the side walls (91a, 91b) of a slot in a wall (93) of an enclosure for housing the board in parallel spaced relationship with other boards. The mechanism (19) compri... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5258889 | Apparatus for compliantly retaining a circuit board in a housing An apparatus compliantly retains a circuit board including a housing comprising two portions. Within the housing is a seat for supporting the printed circuit board. When the two housing portions are brought together a snap retainer engages. A flexible tan... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5255795 | Test fixture The present invention relates to means and methods for testing microelectronic parts and devices including a special fixture that provides a stable support for holding packaged integrated circuit boards and the like at a specially selected angle in an env... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5251099 | High density electronics package having stacked circuit boards A high-density electronics package (10) that houses a plurality of circuit cards (21,22,25,26), heat sinks (23,27) and circuit interconnections (33) in a single housing (12). The electronics package (10) uses conical shaped interfaces for locating and loc... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5242061 | Apparatus for positioning interface cards in a computer housing An apparatus for positioning interface cards in a computer housing includes a seat member and a locking member. The seat member has a first mounting plate and a second mounting plate connected perpendicularly to one another. A plurality of positioning cha... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5236094 | Wiring panel rack apparatus Printed circuit board or wiring panel apparatus includes a generally rectangular outer frame and a plurality of holding and receiving elements for holding and receiving the printed circuit boards or wiring panels. The holding and receiving elements includ... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5229925 | Modular front panel and enclosure for electronic apparatus A housing for electronic apparatus, including an enclosure for housing power supply and amplifier circuits that are common to a number of different functional devices. A replaceable, hinged, modular front panel is provided and carries a control circuit on... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5227958 | Carrier and insertion apparatus A carrier/insertion apparatus that has a U channel handle is improved to comprise an insertion portion, a stabilizer plate, and a deflector portion. The substrate that the carrier/insertion apparatus is mounted on comprises a carrier/insertion apparatus i... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5218519 | Card cage system A card cage formed of mating, identical halves provides parallel slots for circuit boards carrying snap-on retainer clips with integral pawl-like clasps which lock over ridges on the exterior of the card cage. The clip is released from the cage by squeezi... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5216578 | Structure for holding packages on backboard of electronics apparatus A package holding structure comprises a pair of linear guide members (11), secured on the package (2) along the respective edges thereof opposite to each other, and a pair of support members (10) for receiving the respective guide members (11), secured at... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5214572 | One-piece electronic cage An electronic cage for housing electronic components (circuit boards and power supplies) therein, wherein the cage includes a box-like component receiving area defined by a plurality of upstanding side walls and a floor member. Part of the floor member pr... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5204805 | Casing assembly for electronic equipment A casing assembly for electronic equipment comprising a printed circuit board on which an exothermic electronic component is mounted, a casing for covering the printed board, and a base for attaching the casing to a wall body or a rail. The base is of a h... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5200885 | Double burn-in board assembly A pair of mother burn-in boards are placed back to back, and are adequately supported with respect to each other to form an assembly. Each of the boards supports a nose board or connector board so that two sets of connectors are available for conductors a... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5200882 | Circuit board retainer A board retainer assembly including a cold plate with plain generally rectangular grooves for receiving the edge of a board and a board retainer. The retainer being separate from the cold wall and adapted to expand and releasably clamp the edge of a board... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5191514 | Printed circuit card guide with locking hook The card guide with hook/card lock as disclosed is designed to prevent a printed circuit board (PCB) from being disengaged without first moving the mechanical card locking hook an adequate distance. When the mechanical card locking hook is flexed to disen... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5187648 | Guide rail for a printed circuit board A guide rail for a printed circuit board mounted in a partially conductive housing comprises a conductive guide member and an insulative fixing member. The guide member is inserted into a receiving portion of the fixing member from an inlet formed in the ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5170894 | Insulating strip for a component carrier A component carrier for accommodating circuit boards includes two front module rails and two rear module rails which connect two parallel side walls with one another. Between the side walls, guide rails for insertion of the circuit boards are provided at ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5172306 | Adaptive card mounting system An adaptable card mounting system includes a number of card guides having predefined configurations selectively mounted at slot locations within a chassis to enable cards of varying dimensions to be installed. A first type of card guide is mounted to oppo... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5168431 | Height adjusting mechanism for shelf in storage cabinet for electronic circuit boards The present invention provides for a shelf and bracket assembly which may be used in various applications including in a cabinet for the storage of circuit boards. The shelf and bracket assembly comprises vertical brackets with slots, horizontal brackets ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5162978 | Frame support for sliding printed circuit boards A mounting frame for supporting several printed circuit boards in abutting relationship includes a pair of side frame members. At least some of the printed circuit boards have slots along or near the side edges, through which screws extend into the side f... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5156280 | Component carrier The guide rails for the circuit boards of a component carrier are provided with centering pins on their undersides and with a spring elastic holding clamp at one end as fastening element whose base is attached to the underside and whose holding tongue is ... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5154631 | Substrate mounting device A substrate mounting device for installing an electrical substrate to a carrier substrate. The substrate mounting device includes a plurality of tabs extending from the perimeter edges of the electrical substrate. First and second substrate guides are mou... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5154300 | Component carrier A component carrier for circuit boards equipped with electrical and electronic components and insertable on guide rails has two parallel side walls as well as four front and rear module rails which connect the side walls and support the guide rails. In or... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5148352 | U-shaped mounting module for mounting components of an information processing machine A mounting module made of three molded surfaces (2, 6, 8) is provided, in which a central surface (6) is connected to the other two (2, 8) via openings (65, 67), and cutouts (68, 66) cooperating with tabs (27, 28, 85, 88), in such a manner as to form a U-... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5140501 | Mechanism for inserting and withdrawing printed board unit of electronics circuit device A mechanism for insertion and withdrawal of a printed board unit (20) to and from a shelf (10), by which the printed board is inserted in the shelf with less force and locked therein after the completion of the operation, an the complete insertion can be ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5133462 | Device for fixing printed cards in a housing and housing equipped with such a device The fixing device includes parallel slides 1a, 1b, 1c and 1d constituted by double folds of flexible thin curtains disposed opposite one another. Each slide is made up of two lips 2a, 3a, 2b, 3b, 2c and 3c which are able to receive cards 14a, 14b and 14c ... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5130887 | Case structure The present invention relates to an instrument case including two side panels, arranged to mate with a further panel to be supported substantially parallel thereby and to a member adapted to interlock in a plane normal thereto with both side members to br... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5128833 | Self-locking system for circuit board holding frames A self-locking system for use with circuit board holding frames comprises two side panels each having a specially configured slot for guiding a retainer bar, which extends between the two slots, between a locked and a loading position. Each slot has a sha... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5115376 | IC card ejecting device An IC card ejecting device for selectively ejecting one of two IC cards which are inserted in respective connectors and disposed in parallel to each other side by side. The device comprises a dial which is disposed between the IC cards and movable in a fi... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5107993 | Subrack for telecommunication equipment A subrack for supporting cards and printed circuit boards (PSC) for telecommunication equipment which allows complete use of the space available for these cards and circuit boards, while meeting the DIN 41494-IEC 297 standard, with a pitch at least 4 time... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5105339 | Arrangement for holding a printed circuit board fixed to a frame An arrangement for retaining a printed circuit board on a frame is disclosed. Connectors are mounted on the printed circuit board and have electrical connection pins connected to electrical conductors in the printed circuit board. The connectors are elong... | 04/14/1992 |
