Port cage retention
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsYoungbae Park, Robert Morris Wilcox
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Abstract
A port may include a connector and an enclosure for the connector. The enclosure may be mounted to a support substrate. The enclosure may include pins that are received within openings in the support substrate. If desired, one or more of the pins may have characteristics that improve retention of the enclosure to the support substrate. If desired, the enclosure may have indents that create a friction fit with the connector. If desired, adhesive may be used to attach the enclosure to the support substrate.
Claims20
A network device comprising:
- a printed circuit substrate having a plurality of openings;
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- a port configured to receive an external component, wherein the port includes:
- a connector mounted to the printed circuit substrate;
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- an enclosure for the connector that is mounted to the printed circuit structure and configured to guide the external component to the connector, wherein the enclosure includes, at a bottom surface of the enclosure, a plurality of pins that extend into corresponding openings in the plurality of openings, wherein the plurality of pins include a first set of pins along a first edge of the bottom surface and include a second set of pins along a second edge of the bottom surface that is opposite the first edge, wherein the enclosure lacks any pins along a rear edge of the bottom surface that connects the first and second edges, and wherein a given pin, in the first set of pins, closest to the rear edge along the first edge has an edge that is serrated.
A computing system comprising:
- a printed circuit substrate having a plurality of openings;
- a first cage for a first port mounted to the printed circuit substrate, wherein the first cage has a first pin in a first opening in the plurality of openings and has a second pin in a second opening in the plurality of openings, wherein the first pin has a first length, and wherein the second pin has a second length that is less than the first length;
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- a second cage for a second port mounted to the printed circuit substrate, wherein the second cage has a first pin in the second opening.
A port cage configured to receive an external component and guide the external component to a port connector, the port cage including a front side through which the external component is received and a rear side opposite the front side and the port cage comprising:
- top and bottom surfaces;
- a first plurality of pins along a first edge on the bottom surface that protrude away from the bottom surface;
- a second plurality of pins along a second edge on the bottom surface that protrude away from the bottom surface;
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- first and second sidewalls that each extend from the front side to the rear side, each connect the top surface to the bottom surface, and each include debossing configured to form a friction fit with the port connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.