Device for circuit board insertion and extraction
AssigneeTellabs Petaluma, Inc.
InventorGeorge Dalisay
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Abstract
An apparatus for facilitating the insertion and extraction of a PC board into and from a card cage, comprising a mounting body, an engager, and an actuator. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus has a ring-shaped mounting body having a clearance hole therethrough. The apparatus is sliadably and rotatably mounted on a cylindrical rod through the clearance hole such that the apparatus is slidably rotatable along the length of the cylindrical rod. In operation, the engager is positioned in physical contact with the PC board in a notch in the board such that when a force is applied to the actuator, the engager is effected to urge the board to move in the direction of the force.
Claims13
A device for facilitating the insertion and extraction of a PC board into and from a chassis, comprising:
- a mounting body having a clearance hole therethrough that includes
- a first mounting arc, and
- a second mounting arc interconnected with the first mounting arc, wherein the first and second arcs form the mounting body;
- an engager attached to the first mounting arc;
- an actuator attached to the first mounting arc;
- and
- a cylindrical rod slidably coupled to the mounting body through the clearance hole,
- wherein the mounting body is slidably rotatable along the length of the rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.