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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2008
Dean Frederick Herring, Youngsville, NC (US);
William Lewis Talley, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Danny Hugh Addison, Durham, NC (US);
Robert J. Heider, Durham, NC (US);
Dean Frederick Herring, Youngsville, NC (US);
William Lewis Talley, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Danny Hugh Addison, Durham, NC (US);
Robert J. Heider, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed that surrounds a connector and places it within the printer body in such away as to allow for the connector to float against the intrusion of a sliding can mounted with electronics and to set up and enable the printer. The problem solved is that of the blind-mating connectors within a printer system for which an industry standard connector set for flex cable must be used. It is advantageous to allow a connector that is attached to a flex cable to float even though the floating feature has not been considered in the original design and the connector was not made for the amount of misalignment present in a blind-mate connection. In addition, by a single-rib design, an extra degree of freedom for rotational around Y-axis is provided to the floating connector to further guide the lead-in of the contacting face of the mating connector.