US 5,667,390 A · I/O card and its associated cable harness assembly

Abstract

An I/O card and associated cable harness assembly (20) comprises an I/O card section (22) and a cable harness section (60) wherein the cable harness section (60) substantially structurally extends out of the I/O card section (22). The distal end of the cable harness section (60) is connected to an outside environment device (100). The cable harness section (60) has an engagement section (72) adapted to be latchably engaged within a cavity (32) in the I/O card section (22). There are a plurality of independent respective wires (64) extending within and along the cable harness section (60), and the front end of each wire (64) is appropriately solderably mounted to the corresponding pad on the internal PC board (26) in the I/O card section (22). The cable harness section (60) is substantially pre-assembled to the I/O card section (22) before the I/O card section (22) itself has been completely assembled. The I/O card section (22) associated with its integrally assembled cable harness section (60) is substantially structurally of one piece without any possibility of improper separation thereof, and that one piece assembly (20) may be substantially with the outside environment device (100) for transportation or sale due to the distal end of the cable harness section (60) directly attached to the outside environment device (100).

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Dependent claims

An I/O card and associated cable harness assembly comprising:

an I/O card section and a cable harness section;
said I/O card section including a frame snadwiched between a top cover and a bottom cover;
an internal PC board positioned in said I/O card section;
said cable harness section including a jacket portion enclosing a plurality of wires therein;
a strain relief means of said cable harness section cooperatively retained within the I/O card section for assembling said I/O card section and said cable harness section together as one unit for transportation or sale;
wherein
the frame of said I/O card section includes a cavity for snug receipt of said strain relief means of said cable harness section, and said strain relief means comprises a pair of pier-like projections for compliance with a configuration of said cavity in the frame, and each of the pier-like projections further includes a hole to receive a corresponding post extending upward within the cavity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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