Patent ID: 7679933
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A loadable/unloadable adapter engageable with a window hole in a housing, the window hole comprising an edge, the adapter comprising: a removable and insertable circuit board, including a horizontally-extending circuit-board panel member and circuit-board connectors; a supporting member to support the circuit board, the supporting member including an erected substrate and a back panel member coupled with the erected substrate; a first connector disposed on the substrate to couple with the circuit-board connectors of the circuit board; a slider for guiding the adapter in forward and backward directions of insertion and removal of the supporting member into and out of the window hole; a second connector disposed forward of the supporting member to couple to the electronics inside the housing upon insertion of the adapter into the window hole; a handle member supported pivotally by a supporting axis disposed backward of the supporting member and extending along a line crossing the forward and backward directions in an orthogonal direction; a clamping plate, supported pivotally on a horizontal plate extending backward from a rear surface of the back panel member and rotating about a pivot extending parallel to the supporting axis, the clamping plate clamping the circuit-board panel member to the horizontal plate; and a projected piece disposed on the handle member to rotate about the supporting axis between a rest position of the handle member forward of the supporting axis along the forward and backward directions and an operating position of the handle member backward of the supporting axis along the forward and backward directions; wherein the projected piece engages the edge of the housing at the window hole when the projected piece is positioned at the operating position of the handle member and restricts rotation of the handle member.