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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Sean P. O'Donnell, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
David Boudreau, Littleton, MA (US);
Albert F. Beinor, Jr., Sutton, MA (US);
C. Ilhan Gundogan, Lexington, MA (US);
Ralph C. Frangioso, Jr., Franklin, MA (US);
Robert P. Wierzbicki, Worcester, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a system comprising a zip-locker and a zip-locker receiver. The zip-locker comprises a first portion and a second portion configured to fasten to an interconnect, at least one of the first portion and the second portion having ratchet teeth formed and extending longitudinally on an outer surface thereof. The zip-locker receiver is configured to ratchetably receive the zip-locker and comprises an aperture and a pawl disposed within the aperture configured to complement and cooperate with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker to prevent removal of the zip-locker from the aperture of the zip-locker receiver at times the pawl of the zip-locker receiver is engaged with the ratchet teeth of the zip-locker.