H - Electricity – 05 – K
Patent
H - Electricity
05
K
H05K 1/02 (2006.01) H05K 1/14 (2006.01) H05K 7/14 (2006.01) H01R 12/18 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2269136
A modular mounting system which allows a circuit board to be removed, inserted or replaced through the front of the mounting frame without deactivating power to the equipment, and in the preferred embodiment without detaching any external cables. Connections for external equipment are disposed along the rear edge of the circuit board, and a row of contacts for the internal connections is provided along the bottom edge of the circuit board. The system of the invention provides a releasable connector which retracts the connector pins into a housing when a circuit board is inserted or removed, thus eliminating the possibility of a contact on the circuit board touching a live connector pin. In the preferred embodiment the external connections are made through adaptors that plug into external cable connectors provided on a connector plate detachably affixed to the rear of the mounting frame. In the preferred embodiment the invention provides an actuating mechanism for the releasable connector which must be actuated in order to remove a circuit board, thus ensuring that the connector pins have disengaged from the circuit board contacts before a circuit board is moved. The mounting system of the invention achieves a high packaging density for mounted devices and accommodates any input/output format. The invention also permits use of two or more separate circuit boards for a device residing in the same compartment and connected by an interface, which allows circuit boards to be repaired or upgraded by replacing a portion of the device circuitry. The invention also provides a novel system for cooling the mounting frame, providing heat sink tunnels in the impeller airstream and affixing the most significant heat-generating components to the heat sink tunnels. The impeller draws an intake airstream through a low resistance path within the mounting frame to cool the circuit board components.
Brook John E.
Kupnicki John
Kupnicki Richard A.
Dimock Stratton Llp
Leitch Technology Corporation
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