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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Guy Lichtenwalter, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439377 ; 211 41 ; 361415 ; 439 64 ;
Abstract
A card guide for positioning a circuit card relative to a backplane is disclosed. The card guide provides electrical contacts to a ground plane on the circuit card in addition to positioning the card. The card guide utilizes two types of protuberances to reduce the force needed when the card is inserted or removed from the card guide, while providing accurate mating of paired connectors.