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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Bruno Centola, De Provence Vence, FR;
Claude Gomez, Antibes, FR;
Christian Ouazana, St Laurent du Var, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for inserting and extracting printed circuit boards from a housing using screwing devices. A connector on the printed circuit board includes two tapped holes that cooperate with two threaded shafts held by the housing. The threaded shafts are operatively coupled to a common control shaft in such a way that rotating the control shaft in turn rotates the threaded shafts. Depending upon the rotation direction, the threaded shafts either screw or unscrew within the tapped holes so that the printed circuit board coupled to the connector is inserted or extracted.