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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Daniel S. Carr, Round Rock, TX (US);
Lisa Sura, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Daniel S. Carr, Round Rock, TX (US);
Lisa Sura, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A blank expansion card adjusts to selected widths within an information handling system expansion card bay having horizontally aligned connectors in order to provide support to an adjacent expansion card. The blank expansion card has a base that couples with an expansion card connector, a body extending from the base along a side wall of the expansion card bay, and an adjustable member that extends from the body an adjustable distance to engage the adjacent expansion card and ensure that the expansion card remains in position against an opposing side wall of the expansion card bay. The adjustable member essentially adjusts the width of the expansion card bay to snuggly fit expansion cards of varying width by extending from or retracting into a housing of the expansion card blank body.