Printed circuit board card retention
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorTien Liang Chung
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Abstract
In some examples, a printed circuit board (PCB) card retention system can include a bracket, a fixed protrusion at a first location on the bracket, where the fixed protrusion includes a face, and a movable mechanism coupled to the bracket at a second location a distance away from the first location, where the movable mechanism includes a face, a positioning mechanism to position the face of the movable mechanism at a position of a plurality of positions that are each a different distance away from the face of the fixed protrusion, and a translation mechanism to permit the face of the movable mechanism, when at the position, to translate.
Claims20
A printed circuit board (PCB) card retention system comprising:
- a bracket;
- a fixed protrusion at a first location on the bracket to contact a first side of a PCB card, when present;
- and
- a movable mechanism coupled to the bracket at a second location a distance away from the first location, wherein the movable mechanism includes:
- a face to contact a second side of the PCB card, opposite the first side, when present;
- a positioning mechanism selectively positionable at a plurality of discrete positions corresponding to a plurality of distances between the face of the movable mechanism and the fixed protrusion;
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- a translation mechanism coupled to the positioning mechanism, the translation mechanism permitting the face of the movable mechanism to translate relative to the fixed protrusion while the positioning mechanism is at a discrete position of the plurality of discrete positions.
A printed circuit board (PCB) card retention system comprising:
- a bracket;
- a fixed protrusion coupled to the bracket at a first location, the fixed protrusion including a first face and a second face;
- a first movable mechanism coupled to the bracket at a second location and arranged to cooperate with the first face of the fixed protrusion to retain a first PCB card;
- and
- a second movable mechanism coupled to the bracket at a third location and arranged to cooperate with the second face of the fixed protrusion to retain a second PCB card,
- wherein a distance between the first location and the second location is substantially equal to a distance between the first location and the third location.
An electronic device comprising:
- a first socket to receive a first printed circuit board (PCB) card;
- a second socket to receive a second PCB card;
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- a PCB card retention system comprising:
- a bracket;
- a fixed protrusion including a first face and a second face;
- a first movable mechanism arranged to cooperate with the first face of the fixed protrusion to retain the first PCB card in the first socket;
- and
- a second movable mechanism arranged to cooperate with the second face of the fixed protrusion to retain the second PCB card in the second socket,
- wherein the first movable mechanism and the second movable mechanism are each independently adjustable relative to the fixed protrusion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.