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US4356531A
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Computer mounting assembly
Assignee: EMC Corp
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Filing: 1981-02-05
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Granted: 1982-10-26
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Expires: 2001-02-05
Abstract
Abstract A computer housing comprising spaced, parallel side walls containing grooves for slidingly receiving cards and spaced, parallel top and bottom walls to which the side walls are secured to provide, in conjunction with the side walls, a card cage and an enclosure for removably receiving, respectively, cards and a fan module, the invention comprising means for assembling the side walls to the top and bottom walls preparatory to securing them, comprising jig means on the side walls and top and bottom walls adapted to be interengaged to support the component walls in precise assembled relation to each other for securing and means independent of the jig means for securing the assembled walls to each other while so held by said jig means and including devices to assist in inserting and removing the cards and for coupling and uncoupling the fan module to a source of power.
Inventors
- 👤 Jerry C. Marino
- 👤 Lawrence J. Bibeau
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-25 15:00
CPC Classifications
H; H05; H05K; H05K5/00; H05K5/04
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
181 words
A computer housing receiving a plurality of computer components in precisely predetermined relation to each other, comprising orthogonally positioned intersecting top, bottom and side walls, mutually-interengaged first positioning means preformed at the intersections of the walls which, by interengagement, hold the walls in precisely predetermined relation to each other, fastening means at said intersections which secure the walls in said predetermined relation to each other as determined by said positioning means, second positioning means carried by the walls receiving said components, said second positioning means being positioned so that, when the walls are secured in said predetermined positions relative to each other as determined by the first positioning means, said components received by said second positioning means will bear a predetermined operative relation to each other, and wherein one of the computer components comprises a fan module and wherein one of the side walls is spaced inwardly from the edge of the bottom wall and that portion of the bottom wall outwardly of the side wall contains a groove slidingly receiving the fan module in parallel relation to the side walls.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
181 words
A computer housing receiving a plurality of computer components in precisely predetermined relation to each other, comprising orthogonally positioned intersecting top, bottom and side walls, mutually-interengaged first positioning means preformed at the intersections of the walls which, by interengagement, hold the walls in precisely predetermined relation to each other, fastening means at said intersections which secure the walls in said predetermined relation to each other as determined by said positioning means, second positioning means carried by the walls receiving said components, said second positioning means being positioned so that, when the walls are secured in said predetermined positions relative to each other as determined by the first positioning means, said components received by said second positioning means will bear a predetermined operative relation to each other, and wherein one of the computer components comprises a fan module and wherein one of the side walls is spaced inwardly from the edge of the bottom wall and that portion of the bottom wall outwardly of the side wall contains a groove slidingly receiving the fan module in parallel relation to the side walls.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
39 words
A computer housing according to claim 1 wherein another of the computer components comprises cards and the second positioning means comprise spaced, parallel grooves in the side walls within which the cards are slidingly received in precisely-spaced parallel relation.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
75 words
A computer housing according to claim 2 wherein still another computer component comprises a power pack tray and means at the two opposite sides of the power pack tray slidingly engaging the power pack tray within the lowermost grooves in the side walls and supporting the power pack tray in spaced, parallel relation to the cards and means at the top of the power pack tray electrically shielding the power pack tray from the cards.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
81 words
A computer housing according to claim 2 wherein there is a back wall fastened to the rear edges of the side walls at right angles to the side walls, terminals fastened to the back wall in vertically-spaced, parallel rows transversely of the top and bottom walls at a spacing corresponding to the grooves in the side walls and wherein there are terminals at the rear ends of the cards slidingly engaged in grooves for interengagement with the terminals on the back.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
57 words
A computer housing according to claim 4 comprising means at the forward ends of the cards and means on the forward edges of the side walls cooperable to on the one hand withdraw cards from the structure to disengage the terminals and on the other hand to push the cards into the grooves to engage the terminals.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
46 words
A computer housing according to claim 1 wherein the top wall has an orthogonal extension spaced from and parallel to said one side wall constituting a cover which in conjunction with the side wall and bottom wall define a fan chamber for receiving the fan module.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
A computer housing according to claim 6 wherein there is a terminal mounted on the fan module and a terminal mounted on the housing, and pilot means for guiding the terminals into engagement when the module is pushed into the fan chamber.
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