Patent ID: 11873119
Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 7:
8. A modular satellite chassis, comprising:
a plurality of frame rails including at least two front frame rails and two back frame rails, each back frame rail being L-shaped with a first member and a second member;
a plurality of transverse parallel ribs disposed on the interiors of the front and back frame rails, the ribs on the front frame rails corresponding in location to one another and to the ribs on the back frame rails, each rib having a central longitudinal axis and a narrow first slot disposed along the central longitudinal axis, and the ribs being spaced apart by wider second slots;
a backplane connected to interiors of the second member of each back frame rail and adjacent to each first member;
a plurality of trays slidingly received by the second slots on the front frame rails and the corresponding second slots on the back frame rails;
a plurality of internal components comprising a plurality of first and second circuit boards, the first circuit boards being directly slidably received by the first slots of the front frame rails and the corresponding first slots of the back frame rails, and the second circuit boards being attached to the trays and the trays being slidably received by the second slots of the front frame rails and the corresponding second slots of the back frame rails, the first and second circuit boards electrically plugging into the backplane and the backplane routing power and signals to the internal components; and
a plurality of panels including at least a left side panel and a right side panel, the left side panel connected to an outside of one of the front frame rails and one of the back frame rails and the right side panel connected to an outside of the other front frame rail and the other back frame rail.