Computer chassis construction
First Claim
1. Computer apparatus comprising;
- a metal chassis having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls having inner sides, said second wall having a cutout area formed therein; and
a unitary I/O output bracket member removably and complementarily received in and covering said cutout area, said unitary I/O output bracket member having;
a periphery cooperating with a peripheral wall edge portion of said cutout area to form therewith an EMI seal, anda plurality of I/O connection openings configured and arranged to complementarily receive a plurality of I/O connector devices operatively mounted on a printed circuit board carried by said chassis.
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Abstract
Using specially designed molded plastic I/O output brackets having differently arranged connection opening series formed therein, a variety of differently configured computers may be manufactured using identical sheet metal chassis. Each bracket has an identical peripheral configuration, is complementarily receivable in an end wall cutout area of any of the chassis, and has a series of I/O connections formed therein which are arranged to complementarily receive the I/O connector devices mounted on the system planar board selected for incorporation within the particular chassis. When the bracket is operatively installed in the cutout area of the chassis wall a peripheral groove formed in the bracket receives an edge portion of the chassis wall and forms therewith an EMI seal having a labyrinth configuration.
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12 Claims
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1. Computer apparatus comprising;
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a metal chassis having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls having inner sides, said second wall having a cutout area formed therein; and a unitary I/O output bracket member removably and complementarily received in and covering said cutout area, said unitary I/O output bracket member having; a periphery cooperating with a peripheral wall edge portion of said cutout area to form therewith an EMI seal, and a plurality of I/O connection openings configured and arranged to complementarily receive a plurality of I/O connector devices operatively mounted on a printed circuit board carried by said chassis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. Computer apparatus comprising:
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a metal chassis having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls with inner sides, said second wall having a cutout area formed therein; a unitary plastic I/O output bracket member removably and complementarily received in said cutout area, said output bracket member having a plurality of I/O connection openings formed therein; and a printed circuit board carried by said chassis, said printed circuit board having I/O connector devices operatively mounted thereon, all of the I/O connector devices on said printed circuit board having portions thereof complementarily received in said I/O connection openings. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of constructing first and second differently configured computer structures, said method comprising the steps of:
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forming essentially identical first and second metal chassis each having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls, said first and second metal chassis having essentially identical cutout areas formed in said second walls thereof; providing first and second printed circuit boards having mounted thereon differently configured series of I/O connector devices; providing first and second unitary I/O output bracket members each being configured to be operatively received in and cover either of said chassis wall cutout areas, said first I/O output bracket member having formed therein a series of I/O connection openings configured complementarily receive portions of said I/O connector devices on said first printed circuit board, said second I/O output bracket member having formed therein a series of I/O connection openings configured to complementarily receive portions of said I/O connector devices on said second printed circuit board; securing said first printed circuit board to either of said first and second metal chassis; securing said second printed circuit board to the other of said first and second metal chassis; operatively placing said first I/O output bracket member in the cutout area of the chassis to which said first printed circuit board is secured; complementarily positioning portions of the I/O connector devices of said first printed circuit board in said I/O connection openings of said first I/O output bracket member; operatively placing said second I/O output bracket member in the cutout area of the chassis to which said second printed circuit;
board is secured; andcomplementarily positioning portions of the I/O connector devices of said second printed circuit board in said I/O connection openings of said second I/O output bracket member. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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