Patent ID: 6261111
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
An apparatus for making or breaking electrical connections between numerous individual electrical cable connectors and an electronics module that has numerous individual corresponding panel connectors in an array; said apparatus comprising:a rack for receiving and holding such electronics module; andan array of numerous individual cable-connector holders, formed in the rack, for receiving and holding such numerous individual cable connectors in positions aligned with such numerous individual panel connectors when such electronics module is held in the rack;each cable-connector holder comprising means for easily and quickly engaging, or disengaging from, a corresponding cable connector, wherein:the rack has means for quickly and easily engaging such electronics module with the rack, and seating all such cable connectors to such corresponding panel connectors, substantially simultaneously; and the module-with-rack engaging means comprise:a door, hinged to the rack, for securing such electronics module, andat least one bar, inside the door, for pushing the electronics module into the rack as the door is closed.