Patents by Inventor James John Tout, Jr.

James John Tout, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Pivoted latching bar for retaining expansion cards
    Patent number: 6138839
    Abstract: A card cage for holding expansion cards and filler panels within a computer system includes a ledge and a pivoted bar which is clamped in place adjacent to the ledge. A number of flexible portions of the pivoted bar clamp end portions of the filler panels and of brackets forming parts of the expansion cards against the ledge, so that these end portions are held in place while being electrically grounded. The bar is preferably pivoted about an axis extending parallel to the surface of the ledge and parallel to a slotted panel forming part of the card cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, John Easton McCloskey, James John Tout, Jr., Frederick Charles Yentz