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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:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; H05K / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361684 ; 361685 ; 361731 ; 361802 ;
Abstract
A computer has a mounting arrangement for enabling the same general internal space of the computer to be used either as a drive bay or as an expansion card slot. In one embodiment, the drive unit is mountable on the mounting arrangement by means of a mounting tray. In this case, the tray is preferably formed such that is serves as a blanking plate for blanking the access aperture provided in a housing wall of the computer for accessing external connectors of an expansion card when the latter is mounted in the mounting arrangement. The same fixing element used for securing the expansion card to the housing wall can also be used to secure the mounting tray to that wall.