US 2018/0123269 A1Published application

Interface card fastening module

AssigneeWistron Corporation

InventorLi Liu

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Abstract

An interface card fastening module is provided for assembling an interface card to a housing and electrically connecting the interface card with a main board having an insertion slot corresponding to the interface card, and the opening of the insertion slot is substantially parallel to the main board. The interface card fastening module includes a stopping member and an engaging member rotatably disposed on the housing so as to be movable between a release position and an engage position. Therefore, upon assembling the interface card to the main board, additional riser card would be not required. As a result, the space for installing an adapting member can be saved, and more components may be received in the housing or the size of the housing may become smaller. In addition, since the adapting member is no more needed, the manufacturing cost and assembling hours for the adapting member can be saved.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An interface card fastening module, provided for assembling an interface card to a housing and for electrically connecting the interface card with a main board, wherein the main board has an interface card insertion slot corresponding to the interface card, and a plane defined extendingly from an opening of the interface card insertion slot is substantially parallel to the main board, wherein the interface card fastening module comprises:

an engaging member disposed at the housing so as to be movable between a release position and a release position, wherein the engaging member comprising a body, at least one lock portion, and an extension plate, wherein the lock portion is perpendicularly extending from the body, and the extension plate is perpendicularly extending from the body and parallel to the lock portion;
a first clamping portion, disposed at a side wall of the housing;
and
a second clamping portion, disposed at a base plate of the housing in which the base plate is perpendicular to the side wall of the housing;
wherein, the interface card is locked with the lock portion, and wherein when the engaging member is at the engage position, the first clamping portion clamps the body and the second clamping portion clamps the extension plate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/854,449Filed 26 Dec 2017
Priority: CN 201420840838.725 Dec 2014
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H01R 12/7058
Locking or fixing a connector to a PCB: characterised by the movement, e.g. pivoting, camming or translating parallel to the PCB
G06F 1/16
Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00: constructional details or arrangements
G06F 1/185
Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for supporting printed circuit boards: mounting of expansion boards
H01R 12/732
Connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures: printed circuits being in the same plane

Family

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