Patent ID: 8014159

Claim:
A mounting plane for interconnecting daughterboards in a server computer, comprising: a printed circuit board having a front side, a back side, and numerous shared mounting holes; connectors for daughterboards attached to the front side of the printed circuit board; an alignment pin spaced apart from each of the connectors and extending outward from the front side of the printed circuit board; and first and second support elements, each having a front side and a back side, wherein the front sides of the support elements are attached to the back side of the printed circuit board, wherein the alignment pins and the support elements are attached to the printed circuit board via the shared mounting holes in the printed circuit board, wherein each of the connectors defines a longitudinal connector axis, the first support element defines a first longitudinal support element axis, and the second support element defines a second longitudinal support element axis, and wherein each of the longitudinal connector axes is parallel to the first and second longitudinal support element axes, perpendicular to the first and second longitudinal support element axes, or parallel to the first longitudinal support element axis and perpendicular to the second longitudinal support element axis.