Information handling system tool-less daughter card retainer and latch
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsHsien-Chih Wu, Yao-Chien Lien, Chih-Hsiang Lee, Chien-Hung Chou
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Abstract
Daughter cards couple to an information handling system chassis and are secured in place with insertion of a retainer in a retainer guide that aligns to engage with securing elements of the daughter cards coupled to the chassis. A hinge member couples the retainer to the retainer guide between an inserted position and an idle position to maintain the retainer attached to the chassis but removed out of the way for daughter card manipulation during addition or removal of the daughter card at the chassis.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a chassis;
- a circuit board coupled to the chassis;
- a processor disposed on the circuit board and operable to execute instructions to process information;
- memory coupled to the circuit board and interfaced with the processor through the circuit board, the memory operable to store the instructions and the information;
- one or more daughter card slots disposed in the chassis and interfaced with the circuit board;
- a retainer guide coupled to the chassis proximate the one or more daughter card slots, the retainer guide having an opening and a length;
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- a retainer sized to slidingly engage the retainer guide at the opening and to slide into the retainer guide for the length, the retainer aligned couple a daughter card to the chassis when the retainer slides through the retainer guide and past the location of the daughter card.
A method for securing a daughter card to an information handling system chassis, the method comprising:
- electrically interfacing the daughter card to one or more components disposed within the information handling system chassis;
- aligning a portion of the daughter card with a chassis side surface to expose a communications coupler at the chassis exterior;
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- sliding a retainer into a retainer guide proximate the daughter card, the retainer engaging a security element of the daughter card to secure the daughter card to the chassis.
A system for securing one or more daughter cards to a chassis, the system comprising:
- a retainer guide having an opening and a length, the length oriented perpendicular to the one or more daughter cards;
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- a retainer sized to fit in the retainer guide at the opening and to slide through the opening for the length, the retainer engaging the one or more daughter cards along the length to secure the one or more daughter cards to the chassis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.