SCSI cable plug retaining seat

• US 6,422,892 B1
• Filed: 06/12/2001
• Issued: 07/23/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Comtrend Corporation (Edimax Technology Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Comtrend Corporation (Edimax Technology Company Limited)
• Inventors: Chen, Jui-Hung, Chen, Chi-Wen, Li, Hsien-Chien
• Primary Examiner(s): Ta, Tho D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHI T
• Application Number:
  US09/878,298
• Time in Patent Office: 406 Days
• Field of Search: 439/378, 439/362, 439/247, 439/248
• US Class Current: 439/378
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/75 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6215 using one or more bolts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/631 for engagement only
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/06 for computer periphery

Abstract

A SCSI cable plug retaining seat includes two guide holes, two guide pins, and a seat. The two guide holes are combined to the upper and lower grooves of the cable plug. The two guide pins are installed to a channel unit connector. The seat has an L shape and the bottom thereof having an opening and has two screws and two screw holes. The retaining base of the present invention serves to fix the cable plug by the screw, and then is locked to the rear covering plate of the shelf. When the channel unit slides into the shelf through card guide, the channel unit connector will be guided into the guide holes by the guide pins so that the channel unit connector is precisely combined to the cable plug. Therefore, the connector can be pulled and inserted rapidly.

Claims

1. A SCSI cable plug retaining seat comprising:

an L-shaped seating bracket having an upper section and a lower section, said L-shaped seating bracket including

(a) an opening in said lower section,

(b) two fixing screws, each of said fixing screws being positioned at a corresponding end of said lower section, locking said SCSI cable plug retaining seat to a rear covering plate of an equipment shelf, and

(c) two ears extending from said upper section, said ears each having a screw hole formed therethrough;

a cable plug casing having an upper casing section and a lower casing section and enclosing a cable plug therein, said cable plug casing having two screw holes respectively formed in opposing ends of said cable plug casing, said screw holes being respectively disposed in alignment with said screw holes of said L-shaped seating bracket, said screw holes being positioned so that a pair of screws may be respectively passed through said screw holes of said L-shaped seating bracket and into said screw holes of said cable plug casing to mechanically affix said L-shaped seating bracket to said cable plug casing, said upper casing section, having two grooves respectively formed in opposing ends of said upper casing section, said lower casing section having two grooves respectively formed in opposing ends of said lower casing section, said grooves in said lower casing section being respectively positioned in aligned relationship with said grooves of said upper casing section;

two tubular guide holes, each of said tubular guide holes being mounted in a corresponding one of said grooves of said upper casing section and retained therein by a corresponding one of said grooves of said lower casing section; and

a channel unit connector mounted to a channel unit and having two laterally projecting guide pins mounted thereon, each of said guide pins being located in aligned relationship with a corresponding one of said tubular guide holes when said channel unit connector is conjoined with said cable plug, wherein the

channel unit having said channel unit connector mounted thereon is inserted into a card guide in said equipment shelf, said channel unit connector being precisely aligned with said cable plug by means of said guide pins being passed into said tubular guide holes, said channel unit being removable from the equipment shelf without manually disconnecting said cable plug therefrom.

2. The SCSI cable plug retaining seat of claim 1, wherein said cable plug is a male connector.

3. The SCSI cable plug retaining seat of claim 1, wherein said cable plug is a female connector.