Patent ID: 6845015
Filing Date: 2005-01-18
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. A system for situating a replaceable component within an equipment cabinet; said cabinet having an equipment volume bounded by a plurality of cabinet faces, including a cabinet front, a cabinet rear and a cabinet top and a cabinet bottom, a first cabinet side and a second cabinet side; said cabinet front being at least partially open for providing access to said replaceable component; said equipment volume being partially filled by a fixed component in an occupied volume within said equipment volume; said occupied volume establishing a receiving volume within said equipment volume between said occupied volume and at least one cabinet face of said plurality of cabinet faces; the system comprising: (a) a substrate; said substrate supporting said replaceable component; said substrate having a generally planar polygonal shape bounded by a plurality of peripheral edges and presenting a first said peripheral edge and a second said peripheral edge substantially parallel with said first peripheral edge; and (b) a guide structure; said guide structure being fixed with respect to said cabinet; said guide structure cooperating with at least one of said first peripheral edge and said second peripheral edge to effect sliding movement of said substrate between said cabinet front and a replaceable component locus in said replaceable component volume; said sliding movement being carried out in a plurality of non-collinear step-wise insertion segments oriented for effecting said sliding movement along a replacement route via a plurality of predetermined paths between said cabinet front and said replaceable component locus.