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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1999
James M. Carney, Pepperell, MA (US);
William A. Izzicupo, Bedford, MA (US);
Robert S. Antonuccio, Burlington, MA (US);
Timothy M. Holland, West Boylston, MA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An insulating guard is mounted over a backplane or motherboard in an electronic system that accepts hot pluggable circuit cards. The insulating guard has openings that expose only the connectors and allow a hot pluggable circuit card to be inserted without the possibility of shorting the backplane. In order to prevent contact between a card being inserted and adjacent cards that have already been connected to the system, the invention provides for insulating card dividers which are connected to the insulating guard and fit between adjacent cards. The card dividers can be attached to the insulating guard by parts which snap together, fasteners or adhesives.