Apple Inc.

Gte Automatic Electric Laboratories Incorporated

James R Stewart

Eric I Gruenberg

Hartmut H Esslinger

Michael John Nuttall

Kenneth Douglas Wood

Mark A Biasotti

Ronald J Moller

Jerrold C Manock

Timothy J Parsey

James J Halicho

Donald G Tweed

Grant D Ross

Nick Top

Document scanner

Computer printer

Cathode ray tube display

Portable computer or similar article

An improved handle and latch assembly for a portable personal computer. The computer includes a cover. To open the cover, the user grasps the handle and pushes it a slight distance toward the computer. The handle is slideably coupled to the cover of the personal computer. A locking member is moveably disposed within the cover. A pair of locking hooks extend out of the cover and engage with slots in the keyboard section of the computer. When the handle is moved inward, it contacts the locking member and moves it, thereby releasing the hooks, and allowing the cover to be opened.

Handle latch assembly

Hard disk drive

Dual disk drive

Support members are located near the corners of a pair of printed circuit cards for holding them together in a fixed, spaced-apart, adjacent and parallel relationship. Each card has a group of holes formed in the same pattern in each of the four corners thereof, at least one hole of each group extending all the way through the card. Each support member comprises a pair of plates that are joined together at a 90.degree. angle along one edges thereof. Load-bearing pegs project from parallel, non-joined together edges of one plate. Flexible posts project from parallel, non-joined together edges of the other plate. An arm extends from each post proximate the end thereof that is spaced from the other plate and in a direction substantially parallel to said parallel edges of the other plate. A post and peg are located on adjacent edges of the plates such that they fit into corresponding holes in the same group thereof on a PC card, with the arm extending through a hole and snapping over the associated card to hold it in place. The pegs operate as load-bearing members when axial pressure is exerted on the plates to insert a card into or remove it from a shelf.

Corner support member for subscriber carrier channel unit assembly

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

James R Stewart