Tower building block biased latching system

Details Tower building block biased latching system Tower building block biased latching system

1998-05-29

2000-10-03

Nguyen, Khiem

Electrical connectors

With insulation other than conductor sheath

Insulating body having plural mutually insulated terminals...

H01R 922

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06126492&

ABSTRACT:
Racks of modules especially useful for retaining disk drives, tape drives, controllers, computers and the like are fabricated via use of tower building blocks. Each block contains a latch arrangement for securing it to another block, a base unit or a cap unit with the latch effecting interlocking of the blocks so as to form a sturdy assembled structure. Power and/or electrical communication lines are provided in each block with power passing through one vertical array of blocks and electrical communications passing through the other so as to reduce the need for shielding one from the other. An arrangement of alignment pins and mating receptacle holes in conjunction with selected placement of sliding latch elements can facilitate proper coupling of blocks which have similar electrical path boards therein. Spring elements contained in the latch configuration can include biasing to overcome tolerance build-up and plastic creep from repeated and long term usage.

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patent: 4558914 (1985-12-01), Prager et al.
patent: 4591228 (1986-05-01), Vasseur
patent: 5192222 (1993-03-01), Krause et al.
patent: 5421739 (1995-06-01), Provenzale

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