Mounting apparatus for mounting expansion cards in computer enclosure

A mounting apparatus for mounting a plurality of expansion cards with cover plates to a computer enclosure, each of the cover plates having an elongated portion and a bent portion, the mounting apparatus comprising:

• a rear panel having a card cage, the card cage comprising a base wall to support the cover plate, and a bent wall, the rear panel defining an opening therein above the card cage, a screw hole being defined in the rear panel above the opening, wherein a pair of slices extends from the rear panel at both sides of the opening, a pivot hole is defined in a lower portion of each of the slices;
• a fixing member having two opposite ends pivotably secured to two opposite edges of the opening of the rear panel and rotated through the opening, the fixing member comprising a bottom wall, a rear wall extending upwardly from a rear side of the bottom wall, a plurality of elastic pressing means corresponding to the bent portions of the cover plates formed on the bottom wall, a locking hole corresponding to the screw hole of the rear panel being defined in an upper portion of the rear wall;
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• a screw;
• wherein in assembly, said pressing means press the bent portions, the fixing member is securely attached to the rear panel by the screw being inserted through the locking hole of the fixing member and engaged in the screw hole of the rear panel, the expansion cards are thus secured to the rear panel;
• in disassembly, the screw is removed from the rear panel and the fixing member, the fixing member is rotated rearward, the pressing means release the bent portions, the expansion cards are thus removed from the rear panel.

A mounting apparatus for mounting a plurality of expansion cards with cover plates to an enclosure of an electronic device, comprising:

• a rear panel of said enclosure having a card cage to supportively mount said cover plates thereto, and an opening defined next to said card cage and having a substantially same width as a totally occupied width of said cover plates of said plurality of extension cards upon said card cage;
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• a fixing member having two opposite ends pivotably secured to two opposite edges of the opening of said rear panel, and comprising a plurality of elastic pressing means corresponding to said cover plates of said plurality of extension cards and a rear wall fully coverable to said opening, said fixing member movable from a position where said cover plates are securely sandwiched between said plurality of pressing means and said card cage and said rear wall covers said opening, to another position where said cover plates are released from said plurality of pressing means and said opening is open due to moving away of said rear wall;
• wherein said plurality of pressing means is formed on a bottom wall of said fixing member integrally extending from said rear wall, said rear wall of said fixing member extends away from said two opposite ends of said fixing member at a first side of said rear panel of said enclosure and is partially movable across said rear panel from said first side thereof to a second side of said rear panel of said enclosure opposite to said first side thereof, said bottom wall of said fixing member extending away from said rear wall of said fixing member is movable exclusively at said second side.