Cisco Technology, Inc.

Long Dang

Saeed Seyed

Nguyen Nguyen

Michael Brooks

Don Nguyen

Vic Hong Chia

Hong Huynh

In one embodiment, a printed circuit board has a hole. The hole has a longest extent on a surface of the printed circuit board. A clip is held in the hole by feet of prongs. The feet are extensions each having a length that is more than half the longest extent of the hole. A heat sink is held, in part, relative to the printed circuit board by the clip. A part of the heat sink contacts a loop of the clip and applies a force on the clip directed away from the printed circuit board. The feet of the clip on an opposite side of the printed circuit board than the heat sink hold the clip to the printed circuit board to counteract the force. The prongs are configured to offset the feet such that the extensions overlap with the lengths extending along the longest extent of the hole by less than a sum of the lengths of the feet and less than the longest extent for insertion through the hole.

Printed circuit board clip

In one embodiment, a slot-filler blanking tray includes a vented blanking panel including a vented front panel, the vented blanking panel for fitting over an entrance to one slot of a computer equipment rack including support rails, and a panel arrangement including partition panels to form a slot partition for reversibly inserting into the one slot, supported by the support rails, the slot partition being formed either by unfolding the partition panels or fitting the partition panels together, wherein (a) the vented blanking panel and at least one partition panel of the partition panels are mechanically connected together, or (b) the vented blanking panel includes a first connecting element and the at least one partition panel includes a second connecting element to mechanically connect the vented blanking panel and the at least one partition panel together. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Slot-filler blanking tray

A circuit board module has a circuit board which includes a circuit board structure and a set of components mounted to the circuit board structure. The circuit board module further includes a set of heatsinks (i.e., one or more heatsinks) and a heatsink retaining assembly fastened to the circuit board. The heatsink retaining assembly includes (i) a set of brackets, each bracket being elongated in shape and having a first end and a second end, (ii) a frame, and (iii) a fastening mechanism configured to fasten the frame to a circuit board. The frame is configured to simultaneously hold the first and second ends of each bracket relative to the circuit board to enable that bracket to assert holding force on the set of heatsinks.

Methods and apparatus for fastening a set of heatsinks to a circuit board

A tool device for selectively extracting, installing, and removing a plurality of optical connectors is disclosed. The tool device has a prying end coupled to a grasping end. The prying and the grasping end are intercoupled by a pair of arms, which is disposed to transmit a grasping force to the grasping end. With respect to the various types of optical connectors and their receptacles that it can be used to extract, install, or remove, the tool device is versatile. The tool can be used on optical connectors of types including 'MTP', 'MPO', &#x2018;MT-RJ&#x2019;, &#x2018;MU&#x2019;, &#x2018;LC&#x2019;, &#x2018;SC&#x2019;, and on SFP optical connector receptacles.

Tool device for selectively extracting, installing and removing various optical connectors

An apparatus for managing the routing of a cable intercoupling two components in an installation is disclosed. The apparatus has a drawer for storing a portion of the cable and a drawer for cross-connecting the cable, which is connected to one component, with another cable, which is connected to the other component. The apparatus can be used with optical and electrical cables.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

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