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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:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2000
Timothy W. Aldridge, Sandy, UT (US);
Jon A. Nelson, Magna, UT (US);
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An interlocking computer card device having computer module dimensions such as a PCMCIA type III architecture comprising two PCMCIA type II computer card devices. Each computer card device has a full wall extendable media connector and a substantially identical computer card housing. The full wall extendable media connector can be configured to couple with a media-plug facing different directions or it can be attached to an antenna for receiving wireless communications. The computer card housing has a bottom planar surface, a top planar surface, a connector housing that extends out of the top planar surface and a recess that has substantially the same shape as the connector housing. The computer card housing also has protrusions and dimples that are configured for coupling with corresponding dimples and protrusions of another computer card housing.