Connector device for computers

• US 5,186,646 A
• Filed: 01/16/1992
• Issued: 02/16/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Legrand AV Inc. (Legrand SA)
• Original Assignee: William A. Pederson
• Inventors: Pederson, William A.
• Primary Examiner(s): DESMOND, EUGENE
• Application Number:
  US07/821,690
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 439/368, 439/379, 439/392, 439/529, 439/540, 361/392, 361/395, 361/399, 361/413, 361/424, 361/426
• US Class Current: 439/374
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/629 Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances separate tools or apparatus H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/631 for engagement only

Abstract

A connecting device for positioning a plurality of peripheral connectors in relative positions for registration with a plurality of corresponding computer ports. The connecting device has a body having a plurality of peripheral connector holding means for securely holding and positioning a plurality of peripheral connectors, each peripheral connector holding means being located in the body so as to position a peripheral connector held therein in a registering position with respect to a predetermined port of the computer, whereby the computer ports register for direct attachment and detachment to a plurality of peripheral connectors.

Claims

1. A connecting device for positioning a plurality of peripheral connectors in relative positions for registration with a plurality of corresponding computer ports, the connecting device comprising:

a body having a plurality of peripheral connector holding means for securely holding and positioning a plurality of peripheral connectors, each peripheral connector holding means being located in the body so as to position a peripheral connector held therein in a registering position with respect to a predetermined port of the computer,

whereby the computer ports register for direct attachment and detachment to a plurality of peripheral connectors.

2. The connecting device of claim 1 herein each peripheral connector holding means is comprised of a cutout which is sized so that each peripheral connector may be press fit.

3. The connecting device of claim 1 wherein the body has a top half and a bottom half, the top and bottom halves each having a plurality of cutouts which, when the top half and bottom half are attached form the plurality of peripheral connector holding means, the top half releasably detaching from the bottom half so as to allow the peripheral connectors to be place din the peripheral connector holding means.

4. A connecting device for use in connecting a computer, having a plurality of ports, to its peripherals, the connecting device comprising:

a body having a plurality of peripheral connector holding means for securely holding and positioning a plurality of peripheral connectors, each peripheral connector holding means being located in the body so as to position a peripheral connector held therein in a registering position with respect to a predetermined port of the computer, and

alignment means for receiving the computer and positioning its ports with respect to the peripheral connector holding means, for registration with a plurality of peripheral connectors, so that the computers ports may easily and quickly be attached and detached from all its peripherals.

5. The connecting device of claim 4 wherein each peripheral connector holding means is comprised of a cutout which is sized so that each peripheral connector may be press fit.

6. The connecting device of claim 4 wherein the body has a top half and a bottom half, the top and bottom halves each having a plurality of cutouts which, when the top half and bottom half are attached form the plurality of peripheral connector holding means, the top half releasably detaching from the bottom half so as to allow the peripheral connectors to be placed in the peripheral connector holding means.