Holding system for electronic modules
AssigneeSiemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHelmut Flotho, Franz-Josef Knoop
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Abstract
A holding system for electronic modules, particularly for magnetic disk drives the holding system a withdrawable frame which can be inserted into a drive bay of an electronic data processing device, particularly a PC, and whose length corresponds to the depth of the drive bay, and further having a U-shaped bracket in whose U limbs first holes are provided for the passage of first fastening elements for fastening the bracket on lateral surfaces, directed parallel to the inserting direction, of the module, and second holes are provided for the passage of second fastening elements for fastening the bracket to the withdrawable frame. The fastening elements can be surrounded by damping elements consisting of an elastic material.
Claims12
A holding system for electronic modules, particularly for magnetic disk drives, said holding system comprising:
- a withdrawable frame having a length corresponding to a depth of a drive bay of an electronic data processing device, wherein said withdrawable frame can be inserted in an inserting direction into said drive bay;
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- a U-shaped bracket having U limbs aligned parallel to said inserting direction, said U limbs having first holes and second holes formed therethrough, wherein first fastening elements pass through said first holes and fasten said U-shaped bracket to lateral surfaces, directed parallel to said inserting direction, of said electronic modules arranged between said U limbs, and wherein second fastening elements pass through said second holes and fasten said U-shaped bracket to said withdrawable frame, wherein said electronic modules are mounted and adapted to said withdrawable frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.