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US 9,755,360 B1Granted
Connector guide assembly with a protruding member
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorDavid William Mayer
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Abstract
Examples herein disclose a connector guide assembly. The connector guide assembly includes a connector frame and multiple protruding members. The connector frame includes multiple side walls. The multiple protruding members are coupled to the side walls of the connector frame such that the multiple protruding members extend substantially perpendicular to the connector frame and are located on opposing side walls of the connectors frame.
Claims13
A connector guide assembly comprising:
- a connector frame including multiple side walls;
- and
- multiple protruding members coupled to the multiple side walls of the connector frame such that the multiple protruding members extend substantially perpendicular to the connector frame and are located on opposing side walls of the connector frame;
- wherein the multiple protruding members of the connector frame mate with different protruding members of a different connector guide assembly in response to the different protruding members moving:
- parallel along a surface of the multiple protruding members of the connector guide assembly;
- and
- a side surface of the different protruding members perpendicularly in a downward direction relative to the multiple protruding members of the connector guide assembly.
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A system comprising:
- a first connector guide assembly comprising:
- a first connector frame;
- and
- a first protruding member coupled to the first connector frame that extends the first protruding member substantially perpendicular to the first connector frame;
- a second connector guide assembly comprising:
- a second connector frame;
- a second protruding member coupled to the second connector frame such that the second protruding member extends substantially perpendicular to the second connector frame and is configured to align with the first protruding member such that the alignment places the first connector frame substantially parallel to the second connector frame;
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- the second protruding member is to:
- move parallel along a surface of the first protruding member;
- and
- move perpendicularly in a downward direction relative to the first protruding member such that the movements mate a first connector coupled to the first connector frame to a second connector coupled to the second connector frame.
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A method to mate a first connector and a second connector, the method comprising:
- aligning a first protruding member located on a first connector guide assembly to a second protruding member located on a second connector guide assembly;
- moving a surface of the second protruding member substantially parallel to a surface of the first protruding member;
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- moving the second protruding member substantially perpendicular to the first protruding member by moving a side surface of the second protruding member in a downward direction relative to a side surface of the first protruding member such that a first connector coupled to the first connector guide assembly mates to a second connector coupled to the second connector guide assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.