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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Kenneth G. Robertson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ray Gradwohl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kenneth G. Robertson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ray Gradwohl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A flexible docking bay is disclosed. The flexible docking bay comprises a body having a cartridge-receiving portion defining a front region that defines an opening and a rear region that defines a rear bounding wall. A cartridge-encasing wall extends from the opening to the rear bounding wall. The flexible docking bay comprises a sled-receiving feature configured to engage a cartridge. The sled-receiving feature is movably coupled with an interior surface of the cartridge-encasing wall. If the cartridge has physical attributes that when fully inserted into the receiving portion of the flexible docking bay is not fixed by a holding mechanism that secures the sled-receiving feature in a first position, then the cartridge and the sled-receiving feature travel past the holding mechanism to a second position. Otherwise, the cartridge and the sled-receiving feature are held in the first position.