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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2003
Goncalo Agra Amorim, Ipswich, GB;
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A through-panel apparatus includes a device with at least one through-panel receptacle and at least one component removably mounted to the device by inserting the component through the receptacle. Both the device and component have between them electrical and/or optical connections that are made when the component is mounted to the device, and broken when the component is demounted from the device. To break the connections requires the application of an extraction force in a direction opposite to that of insertion of the device through the receptacle. The component has a sprung mechanism that is biased against the device when an insertion force is applied to the component along the direction of insertion during mounting of the component to the device. The biasing of the sprung mechanism provides a spring bias force that contributes to the required extraction force to aid extraction of the component from the receptacle.