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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1992
Neil C Fletcher, Southampton, GB;
David Horne, Winchester, GB;
BICC Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Abstract
A circuit board injector/ejector device for use with a circuit board to be accommodated in a rack housed in an enclosure comprises a body adapted to be secured to a front plate secured to the circuit board and a lever pivotally mounted on the body. The device is adapted to assist in providing the force necessary to effect a multiplicity of pin and socket connections at the rear of the circuit board when the circuit board is introduced into a rack and to assist in providing the force necessary to effect disconnection of the multiplicity of pin and socket connections at the rear of the circuit board when the circuit board is withdrawn from the rack. The lever has passing therethrough a fixing screw which, when the multiplicity of pin and socket connections at the rear of the circuit board have been made and withdrawal of the circuit board from the rack is prevented by co-operating surfaces of the lever and an adjacent elongate member of the rack, is adapted to screw into a tapped hole in the body to prevent pivotal movement of the lever.