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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Craig E Lauchner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Abbott, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Hintz, San Jose, CA (US);
Larry Zieminski, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A slide assembly for slidably mounting a computer server unit to a rack. The slide assembly includes a stationary member and at least one slidable member slidably mounted thereto. A front bracket is mounted to a front end of the stationary member and a rear bracket is mounted to a rear end of the stationary member. Both the front and rear brackets include a plurality of mounting pins and a spring element. The mounting pins are positioned within holes in the rack columns and the spring element applies a bias force against the rack column to hold the slide assembly to the rack.