Electronic component storage album

• US 4,977,483 A
• Filed: 05/25/1989
• Issued: 12/11/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Louis A. Perretta
• Original Assignee: Louis A. Perretta
• Inventors: Perretta, Louis A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Envall, Jr., Roy N.
• Application Number:
  US07/356,555
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 220/1 A, 220/2.3 R, 220/470, 206/328, 206/329, 206/331, 206/332, 206/334, 364/424, 361/380, 361/395
• US Class Current: 361/816
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0067 Devices for protecting against damage from electrostatic discharge

Abstract

An electronic component storage album consisting of integrally secured front and rear covers adapted to snap together to define a sealed compartment. An electrically conductive foam block is secured in the compartment against the inner side of the back cover to support a plurality of electronic components such as ICS which are secured by impaling their pins in the block. If desired a recess may be formed on the inner side of the front cover to receive and support a plurality of diskettes or other documentation.

Claims

1. An electronic component storage album comprising crush resistant front and back covers, with each having integrally formed depending side walls, means for releasably securing said covers together with the side walls integral with the front cover shaped and sized to continuously engage the side walls integral with the back cover when the album is closed forming a space therebetween, and means positioned in said space to releasably engage and secure electronic components.

2. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 1 wherein said means positioned in said space comprises an electrically conductive material adapted to engage an releasably secure the prongs of said electronic components and wherein said conductive material comprises a block of foam having a thickness sufficient to receive the length of said prongs.

3. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 2 wherein one side of said foam block is secured to the inner side of one of said covers and the other side of said foam block is spaced from the inner side of the other of said covers to at least partially define said space therebetween.

4. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 3 wherein one side of said conductive foam block is secured within one of said continuous sidewalls to a cover and with said one continuous sidewall projecting further from the inner side of said cover to which it is attached than said other side of said conductive foam block.

5. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 4 wherein said conductive foam block is secured to said back cover.

6. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 5, wherein said front cover includes means forming a shoulder within said continuous sidewalls whereby said recess in said front cover has at least on of the longitudinal and width dimensions are shorter than the corresponding dimensions in the recess of said back cover.

7. An electronic component storage album as set forth in claim 6 having means for securing material stored in the recess of said front cover from engagement with electronic components secured to said foam block.