Patents Examined by Xanthia Cunningham
  • Patent number: 8014156
    Abstract: A blade-system computer component with a chassis and a blade. The chassis has a housing for a blade, chassis electrical contacts for making electrical connections to the blade, and two rails for engaging the blade along two sides of a length of the blade. Each of the two rails has a slider portion and a rack portion that both engage the blade, and are both disposed along an entire length of the two rails. The blade has blade electrical contacts for making electrical connections to the chassis, two glides disposed along the entire length of the two sides of the blade, where each of the two glides engage the slider portion of each of the two rails, and provide stability to the blade during relative movement between the blade and the chassis. At least one pinion engages the rack portion of at least one of the two rails, and provides dampening to the relative movement between the blade and the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Netapp, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Signer, Robert T. Harvey
  • Patent number: 8014157
    Abstract: A circuit board mounting system has a mounting plate and standoffs. The mounting plate has several parallel slits. The standoffs have a base with an elongated slot and an upright post. Fasteners through the slot mount the standoffs anywhere along the slits. The standoffs can rotate around the fasteners and translate relative to the fasteners before the fasteners are tightened, so that a post can be located anywhere on the mounting plate. Circuit boards are mounted to the tops of the standoff posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: ARC Wireless Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven C. Olson
  • Patent number: 8000109
    Abstract: A bracket device for securing a mezzanine board assembly includes a brace including a rigid bar and a plurality of connector portions connected to the bar. Each of the plurality of connector portions has a hole. A plurality of pins each configured to respectively pass through the hole in each of the plurality of connector portions and engage an attachment part of the mezzanine board assembly. The bracket device also includes a plurality of mounting brackets movably attached to the plurality of connector portions, each having a guide configured to engage a holder for the mezzanine board assembly. A method for securing a mezzanine board assembly includes inserting a pin into a hole at a connector portion of a brace and movably attaching a mounting bracket to the connector portion. The pin passes through an opening of the connector portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy W. Olesiewicz, Robert S. Antonuccio, Brett C. Ong
  • Patent number: 7978481
    Abstract: A harness routing structure comprises: a battery case that defines an internal space which houses a battery and an electric appliance on a hybrid motor vehicle, and that is formed of a first member; a reinforcement that is provided in the battery case, and that is formed of a second member having a greater strength than the first member and that reinforces the battery case; and a harness routed at a position along the reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takenori Tsuchiya, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7965501
    Abstract: A fixture for fixing a data storage unit is disclosed. The fixture includes: a body receives the computer components and defines a protrusion and a hole thereon; a separating piece includes a separating portion correspondingly to the protrusion; a fixing piece includes a lockpin correspondingly to the hole of the body, and the separating piece is set between the fixing piece and the body; and a controlling component fixes the fixing piece on the body. The fixture of the present invention can rapidly fix or remove a data storage unit inside a computer case without any screws. The assembly cost and the maintaining cost of the fixture are low, and the assembly and the disassembly of which is simple and timesaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: Silitek Electronic (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Cheng Liang