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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
May. 02, 2006
Mike Richardson, Upminster, GB;
Mike Richardson, Upminster, GB;
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A housing modulefor a circuit board comprises a first chamberfor accommodating a main part of the circuit board and a second chamberbordering the first chamberand having a greater depth that the first chamberto enable it to accommodate a connectorlocated along an edge of the circuit board and protruding above the surface of the circuit by an amount exceeding the depth of the first chamberThe exterior of the moduleis shaped to enable two similar modulesto be stacked with the first chambersoverlying one another and with the second chamberscircumferentially staggered around the stack, thereby and acting to maintain the modules of the stack in alignment with one another.