Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Apw Electronics Limited

John David Schnabel

Andrew John Yair

Stephen David Sparkes

John Richard Parkin

Sean Conor Wrycraft

Christopher H Frank

Stephen Philip De Saulles

Jay Kevin Osborn

Denise R Silverman

James Robert Kitchen

David Horne

Stephen Paul Haworth

Simon James Matthews

Matthew C Cain

An electronics assembly, for example for use as a network server, comprises a frame that encloses a number of components of the assembly, a facia panel that is attached to a surface of the frame, and is formed as an upper and a lower part that are retained together generally horizontally. The assembly includes a printed circuit board for providing information relating to the assembly, the printed circuit board being located within the facia panel between the two parts. The frame and the fascia panel have a locating element at each side of the fascia panel for ensuring correct positioning of the panel with respect to the frame.

Fascia panel for electronics assembly

In a cabinet having vertically extending side members () forming part of a chassis of the cabinet, panel mounts (), also to extend vertically in the cabinet and to have panels mounted thereupon, are mountable to the side members () by integral members () which extend parallel to the outer face of the panel mount () at a spacing from the outer face and in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of the panel mount (), i.e., horizontally. The integral members () are engaged in respective apertures in the side members () or in braces () extending between the side members () followed by forward or rearward movement to effect securement, retaining means such as pins or studs then being inserted in aligned bores () in the panel mounts () and side members () to prevent return movement.

Method and apparatus for mounting panels in electrical cabinets

Method and apparatus for hanging a panel of an electrical cabinet

Method for securing frame members for an electrical cabinet

Computer housing

A support for holding an electronics assembly, comprises: The handles may be employed to lift both the assembly and the support, or they may be used to release the support from the assembly once the assembly is in place in an electronics cabinet. The support protects the assembly during installation in data centres after other packing materials have been discarded.

Support for electronics assembly

A method of joining a plurality of sheets by means of a blind rivet, comprises: The hole () is radially enlarged at the outwardly facing surface of at least the sheet on the blind side, and the sleeve of the rivet is deformed during setting to form a rivet joint in which no part of the rivet is proud of the outwardly facing surface () of the sheet at least on the blind side of the sheets. The method enables rivet joints to be formed in sheets, for example used in enclosures that house modules, where there is no space available for the set rivets to protrude.

Riveting method

Electronics assembly

A spacing member ( ) on a hinge arm ( ) bears against guide surfaces ( )and locates a hinge pin ( ) generally beneath a hinge pin hole in a recess ( ) to be mounted on a door to be hingedly mounted on a cabinet which has a frame mounting the hinge arm. Lowering of the recess when so generally located cause a chamfer ( ) on the end of the hinge pin ( ) to accurately align the hinge pin with the hinge pin hole as the hinge pin ( ) enters the hinge pin hole to move the spacing member ( ) out of engagement with the guide surfaces ( ).

Hinge connection

An electronics assembly includes a chassis and a panel mounted on the chassis. The panel has an air filter on a surface of the panel which is retained in position on the panel by one or more retaining elements ( ), for example plastics rivets, that can be operated to allow release of the air filter from the panel. The air filter can be changed very quickly during maintenance of the assembly without the need to switch the assembly off during changing of the air filter.

Electronics assembly with air filter

Electromagnetic interference gasket

An electronics assembly may include a frame ( ) and a motherboard module ( ) have cooperating temporary supporting elements ( ) that can be engaged to support one edge of the motherboard module until some of the securing elements have been engaged to secure the motherboard module to the frame or after the securing elements have been released. The provision of temporary supporting elements enables a service engineer to support the motherboard module with a single hand while securing it in position with the other hand.

An electronics assembly comprises: (i) a frame ( ); and (ii) a motherboard ( ) that is removable from the frame. One or more motherboards ( ) extend in a plane generally perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard; and a number of elongate guides ( ) are provided for the daughterboards to enable each daughterboard to be moved toward the motherboard into engagement therewith and away from the motherboard out of engagement therefrom. The motherboard ( ) has at least one location element ( ) thereon, which can engage one of the elongate guides ( ) in order to locate the guides and the motherboard with respect to one another. This assembly enables accurate positioning of the daughterboards and the motherboard for forming electrical connections between them even where large tolerances are present in other parts of the assembly.

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John David Schnabel