Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Single duct conduits
Patent
1997-04-28
1998-11-10
Reichard, Dean A.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Single duct conduits
174 35GC, 248 681, 248 56, 361686, 361827, 439 94, 439 98, H02G 318
Patent
active
058346937
ABSTRACT:
The support bracket and cable assembly of this invention allows an internal circuit board of a host computer to be directly connected to a plurality of peripheral devices using a plurality of interface cables through a first port of an input/output frame. A rigid compound bracket has two bracket elements with cutouts to form cylindrical openings through which the interface cables pass. The cylindrical openings or channels have at least one collar that grips and holds the interface cables within a single port of an input/output (I/O) frame of an enclosure of the host computer. Therefore, interface cables to go directly from the internal circuit board to the peripheral devices without intermediate connectors at the I/O frame. The compound bracket is attached to the I/O frame by a bracket mount arrangement. A grounding interface is provided for the peripheral devices as the interface cables pass through the cylindrical openings in the compound bracket. This allows for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and grounding of the cable/bracket assembly to the host computer. An unshielded length of each interface cable extends from the compound bracket to the first electrical connector at a circuit board within the host computer. A shrink tubing is applied to the unshielded length to provide insulation for this length. The compound bracket may be a segmented bracket to allow a lesser number of interface cables through the single port than the maximum number possible.
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Piper Douglas E.
Waddell M. Eugene
Flint Cort
Jaudon Henry S.
Reichard Dean A.
Woven Electronics Corporation
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