Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Patent
1993-04-01
1995-04-11
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
361683, 361731, 361736, 361796, 439 61, H05K 500
Patent
active
054064538
ABSTRACT:
To improve the serviceability, manufacturability and uptime for a computer file server a specially designed planar/riser card assembly is mounted on the computer chassis and includes a card cage structure in which a riser card is secured. Carried on the riser card are I/O card edge connector sockets into which all of the system I/O cards may be plugged. The riser card is hard connected into the system and itself has an edge connector portion. The system planar board is carried on a mounting plate which is screwed to an outer side of the cage structure. A socket connector carried on the planar board receives the edge connector portion of the riser card, thereby electrically coupling the planar board to the riser card. The riser serves as a wiring plane containing only the signals which the planar board would normally provide to the I/O cards through "on planar" connectors. Removal of the planar board, without the necessity of first unplugging I/O cards and cables therefrom, is easily and quickly effected simply by unscrewing the mounting plate and outwardly pulling on it to remove the riser card edge portion from the planar board socket, thereby freeing the planar board from the balance of the system. Once a replacement planar board is secured to the mounting plate, this process is simply reversed to operatively install the new planar board.
Curlee James D.
Cusato Richard L.
Dell USA L.P.
Huffman James
Konneker J. Richard
Picard Leo P.
Sarfatis Brandi W.
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