Mounting apparatus for expansion card
AssigneesHONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsWen-Tang Peng, Guang-Yi Zhang, Xiao-Zheng Li
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Abstract
A mounting apparatus fixing an expansion card includes an expansion slot, two locking members connected to opposite ends of the expansion slot, for clamping the expansion card, and two latching members pivotably mounted to opposite ends of the expansion card, respectively. A latching portion protrudes from each of the latching members, for latching the corresponding locking member.
Claims18
A latching member for latching an expansion card to an expansion slot, the latching member comprising:
- two opposite sidewalls;
- a connection wall connected between corresponding sides of the sidewalls, wherein the connection wall and the sidewalls cooperatively bound a receiving space to receive a corresponding end of the expansion slot;
- and
- an installation portion extending from tops of the sidewalls, to be pivotably mounted to an upper portion of a corresponding end of the expansion card.
A mounting apparatus for an expansion card, the mounting apparatus comprising:
- an expansion slot into which an edge connector of the expansion card is inserted;
- two locking members disposed at two ends of the expansion slot opposite to each other for clamping lower portions of opposite ends of the expansion card;
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- two latching members pivotably mounted to upper portions of the ends of the expansion card, which engage with the two ends of the expansion slot;
- wherein each latching member comprises two opposite sidewalls and a connection wall connected between corresponding sides of the sidewalls, the connection wall and the sidewalls cooperatively bound a receiving space to receive a corresponding one of the two ends of the expansion slot.
An assembly comprising:
- a motherboard;
- an expansion card comprising an edge connector formed on a bottom side of the expansion card;
- an expansion slot mounted on the motherboard into which the edge connector is inserted;
- two locking members pivotably mounted to two ends of the expansion slot opposite to each other for clamping lower portions of opposite ends of the expansion card;
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- two latching members pivotably mounted to upper portions of the ends of the expansion card, which engage with the two ends of the expansion slot;
- wherein each latching member comprises two opposite sidewalls, a connection wall connected between corresponding sides of the sidewalls, and an installation portion extending up from tops of the sidewalls and pivotably mounted to the upper portion of the end of the expansion card, the connection wall and the sidewalls cooperatively bound a receiving space to receive the lower portion of a corresponding one of the two ends of the expansion slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.