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US 3,939,382 AGranted
Chassis intended to hold electronic circuits
AssigneeLe Telemecanique Electrique
InventorsGuy Lacan, Yves Oehlert
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Abstract
The invention relates to a chassis intended to hold electronic modules which use printed circuit boards. The chassis includes upper and lower supports for the boards which have slide-ways to guide the boards, and also serve to align connectors and secure them to front and rear upper and lower cross-pieces of the chassis. The supports snap or latch onto the cross-pieces by means of mouths which are orientated at right-angles to one another. The chassis may be employed in industrial automation control systems.
Claims4
A rack for mounting circuit boards comprising:
- a pair of vertically spaced side walls, a first pair of vertically spaced cross-pieces attached to the respective side walls, a second pair of vertically spaced cross-pieces attached to the respective side walls and extending parallel to said first pair of cross-pieces, said first and second pairs of cross-pieces each having regularly spaced and inwardly facing grooves, said second pair of cross-pieces having inwardly facing extensions, a connector provided with first and second end projecting tongues, each of said projecting tongues being provided with an aperture, a plurality of pairs of support members each extending between the first and second pairs of cross-pieces, said support members being provided with opposed elongated grooves for the reception of circuit card edges and having projecting studs which removably engage the said apertures and shoulders which press the said projecting tongues against the said inwardly facing extensions, said support members further having vertically extending ribs which slidably and horizontally engage the grooves of the cross-pieces of the second pair and resilient jaws which grasp and hold the cross-pieces of the second pair, said support members further having further ribs which slidably and vertically engage the grooves of the cross-pieces of the first pair and further resilient jaws which grasp and hold the cross-pieces of the first pair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.