Patent ID: 6497398
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
An arrangement for supporting an interface card in an expansion slot of a computer, comprising:a guide member having a &blank; shape cross-section and inwardly extending flanges at top ends of the &blank; shape to define an elongated slide slot, the guide member being fixed transversely across the expansion slot; a plurality of sliders slidably received in said slide slot, each of said sliders having  shape and a threaded hole; a plurality of threaded adjustment shafts extending transversely to said guide member, each of said adjustment shafts being threaded into a respective threaded hole of a corresponding slider; a plurality of clamping plates, each of said clamping plates being threaded onto an end of a respective adjustment shaft and including an elongated bottom groove arranged to fit over an interface card when a respective one of said clamping plates is positioned by sliding said slider within said groove and by turning said adjustment screw until said groove fits over the interface card.