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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1995
Filed:
May. 14, 1993
Danny H Addison, Durham, NC (US);
Johnnie M Carnes, Apex, NC (US);
Robert L Cowardin, Cary, NC (US);
Albert N Gore, III, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert C Lynch, Cary, NC (US);
Charles M McCray, Raleigh, NC (US);
Shigeji Narisawa, Kanagawa, JP;
William L Talley, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yoshinair Toyosato, Kawasaki, JP;
Craig W Turner, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An electronic equipment drawer is aligned with an electrical connector in a tunnel in the horizontal and vertical directions with alignment pins and holes. A screw drive and cam mounted on the drawer engages a surface of an opening in a wall of the tunnel and controls insertion into the tunnel to provide proper electrical contact and lock the drawer in place in the tunnel. Within the drawer a bus extender card inserted in a connector centrally located on a mother board is supported by surfaces on a bar extending between end walls of the drawer. The end walls include pairs of channels on opposed walls which support feature cards inserted into connectors mounted on the bus extender card.