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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
David Baik, San Jose, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Riser printed circuit boards are retained relative to a motherboard to avoid lateral side-to-side movement and vertical separation from an edge connector on the motherboard. A horizontal portion of a retaining plate extends above an upper edge of the riser boards, and a resilient compressible gasket is connected to the horizontal portion. The resilient compressible gasket contacts and upper edge of the riser boards, and applies resilient force to retain the riser boards. The retaining plate also ducts cooling air over heat-sensitive components of the motherboard and increases the air flow rate over those components by reducing the cross-sectional size of the path through which the cooling air flows.