International Business Machines Corporation

Peter Andrew Smith

Ian McFarlane Denny

Gavin Wright

Cynthia Michelle Grosser

Joseph James Hall

Fraser Brown

A strain relief for a plurality of cables comprises two portions which act together to clamp the cables in position without the use of tools in a manner which is intuitive to a user. The first portion has hook elements projecting from a surface, each hook element being for retention of a cable. A second set of hook elements is also provided. A second portion has a cable receiving opening corresponding to the cable receiving opening in the first portion. The second portion latches to the first portion, so as to clamp the cables.

Strain relief for cables

A hot swap tray having a housing adapted to be slidably inserted in a rack. The tray includes an electromagnetic shield member mounted for rotation about an axis traversing the sliding direction of the tray. The shield has a resting state in which the shield presents a first dimension in a plane traversing the sliding direction and a deflected state in which the shield presents a second dimension in the plane, the first dimension being greater than the second dimension. The shield is actuated on insertion of the tray into the rack to move from the resting state to the deflected state so that the shield clears adjacent shields located within the rack and from the deflected state to the resting state so that the shield engages the adjacent shields.

Electromagnetic compatibilty (EMC) shield

A connector for use in a computer is arranged so as to accept an adapter card and a card insulator. The adapter card is inserted into one or more first openings. The card insulator is inserted into one or more second openings. The connector has an insulating molding common to the first and second openings.

Insulating divider and connector for hot plug adapter card slots

A mounting for a computer accessory such as a hard disc drive comprises a tray (,) for accommodating the accessory (,) which can be inserted into a mounting bay in the computer against the bias of a pair of springs (,). The tray (,) carries a bezel member (,) movable along the insertion path independently of the tray to latch or unlatch the tray in place, using latching members (,) in association with latching tracks formed in the bezel, by way of a push-push action.

Accessory mounting for digital computer

A first movable connector part and a second fixedly positioned connector part form a connector. The second fixedly positioned connector part has at least two catch members separately positioned at spaced apart locations. The first connector part is adapted to be moved in a first direction toward the second connector part in response to a predetermined insertion force until the first connector part and the second connector part are connected. The first connector part has at least two movable latches separately supported at spaced apart locations on the first connector part, each of the latches being associated with a respective one of the catch members. Each of the catch members are adapted for engaging a respective one of the movable latches. A flexible linking bar connects the movable latches. On application of a predetermined extraction force, the linking bar flexes so as to cause the movable latches to be released from the catch members.

Auto unlatching connector tab

Personal computer motherboards commonly have connectors located on them for the insertion of plug-in adapter cards. Disclosed is a connector having a first opening in which a PCI adapter card may be inserted and a second opening in which an adapter card of a second type, such as an ISA or EISA card may be inserted. The connector has an insulating moulding common to the first and second openings. By using such a connector, the spacing between slots may be reduced from that required when separate PCI and ISA or EISA connectors are used. This allows either a lower profile for a personal computer or for more connection slots to be incorporated.

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Skelmorlie, United Kingdom

Peter Andrew Smith