Patent ID: 6422892
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A SCSI cable plug retaining seat comprising:an L-shaped seating bracket having an upper section and a lower section, said L-shaped seating bracket including (a) an opening in said lower section, (b) two fixing screws, each of said fixing screws being positioned at a corresponding end of said lower section, locking said SCSI cable plug retaining seat to a rear covering plate of an equipment shelf, and (c) two ears extending from said upper section, said ears each having a screw hole formed therethrough; a cable plug casing having an upper casing section and a lower casing section and enclosing a cable plug therein, said cable plug casing having two screw holes respectively formed in opposing ends of said cable plug casing, said screw holes being respectively disposed in alignment with said screw holes of said L-shaped seating bracket, said screw holes being positioned so that a pair of screws may be respectively passed through said screw holes of said L-shaped seating bracket and into said screw holes of said cable plug casing to mechanically affix said L-shaped seating bracket to said cable plug casing, said upper casing section, having two grooves respectively formed in opposing ends of said upper casing section, said lower casing section having two grooves respectively formed in opposing ends of said lower casing section, said grooves in said lower casing section being respectively positioned in aligned relationship with said grooves of said upper casing section; two tubular guide holes, each of said tubular guide holes being mounted in a corresponding one of said grooves of said upper casing section and retained therein by a corresponding one of said grooves of said lower casing section; and a channel unit connector mounted to a channel unit and having two laterally projecting guide pins mounted thereon, each of said guide pins being located in aligned relationship with a corresponding one of said tubular guide holes when said channel unit connector is conjoined with said cable plug, wherein the channel unit having said channel unit connector mounted thereon is inserted into a card guide in said equipment shelf, said channel unit connector being precisely aligned with said cable plug by means of said guide pins being passed into said tubular guide holes, said channel unit being removable from the equipment shelf without manually disconnecting said cable plug therefrom.