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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2002
Jay Kevin Osborn, Crowthorne, GB;
Sean Conor Wrycraft, Harrow, GB;
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronics assembly comprises a frame ( ) that contains a motherboard ( ) and a plurality of daughterboards ( ). The frame has an opening opposite the motherboard to allow insertion of the daughterboards into the frame or removal of the daughterboards from the frame. The frame also has an injector/ejector mechanism ( ) for each daughterboard that is located on the daughterboard or the frame and a flange ( ) that extends adjacent to the opening and on which the injector/ejector mechanism of each daughterboard is attached or engages at different locations along the length thereof. The flange ( ) is divided into separate sections ( ) that correspond to the different locations to allow the flange to flex at any adjacent location during insertion of a daughterboard without the flexing affecting the position of any adjacent location of the flange with respect to the motherboard.