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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2003
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A housing having openings for exposing the operation surfaces of a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) expansion card and a communication and network riser (CNR) expansion card to the outside at its front surface and at its back surface, respectively. A motherboard, which is incorporated in the housing, has multiple connectors arranged at specific intervals. The PCI expansion card has a PCI card electrode and is inserted into and connected with one of the connectors of the motherboard. A CNR expansion card has a CNR card electrode and is inserted into and connected with another one of the connectors of the motherboard. The PCI expansion card and the CNR expansion card are attached to the corresponding connectors in the motherboard, with the electronic-parts-implementing surface of the PCI expansion card and the electronic-parts-implementing surface of the CNR expansion card facing each other.