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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2006
Applicants:
Simon Paul Creasy, Ottawa, CA;
Paul James Brown, Wakefield, CA;
Fabien Letourneau, Gatineau, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printed circuit board card comprising: a printed circuit board having a first thickness and having first and second edges for inserting into respective channels of card guides, the channels of the card guides for receiving printed circuit boards having a second thickness, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness; and, first and second thickness adaptors each having a third thickness applied at the first and second edges, respectively, a sum of the first and third thicknesses approximating the second thickness, to thereby align the printed circuit board in the channels of the card guides.