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AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Derrick Gonsalves, Kenneth Kitlas, Robert Antonnucio, William Izzicupo, James Carney, Mark Pugliese, Joseph Spano, Mathew Palazola, David Desilets
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A PCI card is inserted through an I/O opening in a computer panel. On one edge of the card is a cover from one end of which projects a tab. A resilient gasket is attached to the panel to create a flexible EMC seal around the opening. Preferably the gasket is formed of tin-plated beryllium copper. The gasket has alternate staggered spring fingers oriented opposite to the direction of insertion of the PCI card. To retain the gasket the panel is formed with slots at either end and an outward struck projection at the middle. The gasket is formed with a tongue at either end to be inserted in one of the slots and a punched-out opening to receive the projection.
A gasket of resilient material for use along a longitudinal edge of at least one longitudinal opening in a panel comprising a strip formed with a plurality of fingers alternatingly spaced along longitudinal edges of said strip, each said finger being outwardly curled relative to said strip, all said fingers extending in the same direction, and a cut-out in said strip shaped to snap onto a protrusion in said panel for attaching said strip to said panel.
In combination, a panel formed with a longitudinal first opening shaped to receive a PCI, card first attachment means on said panel, a gasket of resilient material comprising a strip formed with a plurality of fingers alternatingly spaced along longitudinal edges of said strip each said finger being outwardly curled relative to said strip, all said fingers extending in the same direction, and second attachment means on said strip cooperable with said first attachment means to secure said gasket to said strip, said gasket adjoining a longitudinal edge of said first opening, said panel being formed with a second opening adjacent and parallel to said first opening said gasket adjoining a longitudinal edge of said second opening, said panel also being formed with a protrusion adjacent an edge of said first opening and intermediate the ends of said first opening and said strip being formed with a cut-out shaped and positioned to snap onto said protrusion.
In combination, a panel formed with a first longitudinal opening shaped to receive a PCI card, a second longitudinal opening on said panel adjacent and parallel to said first opening, a gasket of resilient material comprising a strip formed with a plurality of fingers alternatingly spaced along longitudinal edges of said strip, each said finger being outwardly curled relative to said strip, all said fingers extending in the same direction, said gasket adjoining a longitudinal edge of said second opening, said panel being formed with a protrusion adjacent an edge of said first opening and intermediate the ends of said first opening and said strip being formed with a cut-out shaped and positioned to snap onto said protrusion, said protrusion being cooperable with said cut-out to secure said gasket to said strip adjoining a longitudinal edge of said opening.
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