Patent ID: 7606045

Claim:
A head or bottom element of a component support, having guide rails arranged side-by-side and aligned in an insertion direction for receiving a printed circuit board of a plug-in module, wherein the guide rails are formed by guide elements of the head or bottom element, the head or bottom element comprising: the guide elements formed as two rows of guide strips per said guide rail each of which extends in the insertion direction, each of the two rows formed of a plurality of the guide strips which are punched out of a plate-shaped head or bottom element and projectingly beveled in a direction toward one of an underside of the head element and a top of the bottom element; a distance of the guide strips of the guide rails matched to a thickness of the printed circuit boards of the plug-in modules; and the head or bottom element forming guide paths for the printed circuit boards of the plug-in modules between the rows of guide strips of the guide rails; and the head or bottom element embodied as a perforated plate outside of the guide paths and the guide strips by perforations, wherein the perforations include a plurality of recesses disposed between adjacent guide rails, each of the plurality of recesses formed as a hexagon and wherein the plurality of recesses form a honeycomb formation in the head or bottom element.