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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1994
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 20 is aligned with an electrical connector in a tunnel in the horizontal and vertical directions with alignment pins and holes. A screw drive 34 and cam 36 mounted on the drawer engages a tunnel wall and controls insertion into the tunnel to provide proper electrical contact and lock the drawer in place in the tunnel. A bus extender card 25 inserted in a connector 26 centrally located on a mother board 21 is supported by surfaces on a bar 28 extending between end walls 24 of the drawer. The end walls 24 include pairs of channels 31 on opposed walls which support feature cards inserted into connectors mounted on the bus extender card 25.