Modular housing system for electronics devices

• US 20020037668A1
• Filed: 05/05/2001
• Published: 03/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Next Planet, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Next Planet, Inc.
• Inventors: Roth, Eric, Tseng, George, Goetz, David, Roth, David
• Application Number:
  US09/849,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20020037668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/778 Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous counter-contacts H01R12/78, H01R12/79 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/20 Pins, blades, or sockets shaped, or provided with separate member, to retain co-operating parts together
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/26 Pin or blade contacts for sliding co-operation on one side only for modular jack type connectors H01R24/62
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/86 Parallel contacts arranged about a common axis
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/7607 the parallel terminal pins having a circular disposition
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0021 Side-by-side or stacked arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1441 with a segmented structure

Abstract

A housing for a device including a first surface having a connector disposed thereon, the connector configured to mechanically couple to an oppositely mated connector on a second surface of a second device. The first surface also has a set of surface features disposed thereon, the set of surface features configured to engage an oppositely mirroring set of surface features on the second surface. When the device is stacked with the second device, the connector and the set of surface features of the first surface interact with the oppositely mated connector and the oppositely mirroring set of surface features on the second surface, respectively, to prevent vertical separation and horizontal dislocation between the device and the second device.

Claims

1. A housing for a device comprising:

a first surface having;

a connector disposed thereon, the connector configured to mechanically couple to an oppositely mated connector on a second surface of a second device; and

,

a set of surface features disposed thereon, the set of surface features configured to engage an oppositely mirroring set of surface features on the second surface;

wherein when the device is stacked with the second device, the connector and the set of surface features of the first surface interact with the oppositely mated connector and the oppositely mirroring set of surface features on the second surface, respsectively, to prevent vertical separation and horizontal dislocation between the device and the second device.