General Electric Company

Intelligent Platforms, LLC

Klaus Weinmann

Bernd Sporer

Oleg Schneider

Andreas Pitzl

Thomas Kirsch

A double-threaded connector or spacer according may be self-threading such that insertion into a mounting hole in a PCB will cause the interior of the mounting hole to become threaded to match the double-threaded connector or spacer. The double- threaded connector or spacer installed in a mounting hole of a carrier. A 'half circle' portion of daughter card is held in place between the double-threaded connector or spacer and screw. The half circle portion of the daughter card is plated to make electrical contact with the double-threaded connector or spacer, for example, to allow for grounding of the daughter card via the carrier, e.g., PCB.

Double-threaded connector

A housing design and method of providing electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) by mitigating a slot antenna in a corner region of a housing, the corner profile including an electrically conductive insert that has a spring bias, such as a spring or coated plastic member, in a corner of the housing.

Electronic housing design and method of improving electromagnetic compatibility by mounting and fixation technology

Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for the cooling of electronic components of a COM-Express module using an adapter module to become VITA-59 compliant module. The adapter module operatively and thermally couple to a modular computing device, e.g., the COM-Express compliant module, configured with a conduction-cooled plate to provide an additional path for conducting thermal energy generated from integrated circuit components located on the modular computing device. The adapter module includes dimensions and thicknesses to form a spatial gap between an assembled system having the adapter module, the cooling plate, and the modular computing device and a cooling surface of an external heat sink to which the assembled system couples. The spatial gap relative to the cooling plate provides clearance for the adapter module to elastically deform such that the surfaces of the assembly contacts the heat sink when the assembled system is coupled thereto.

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Augsburg, Germany

Klaus Weinmann