Patent ID: 6966703

Claim:
An actuator-based latching/delatching mechanism in combination with nesting structures comprising: a first structure including a front face with an opening and a second structure designed to be nestingly engaged in the opening in the first structure, the first structure is a housing and the second structure is an optical transceiver; a pivot arm having a first surface and a second surface, the pivot arm being pivotally mounted between the first structure and the second structure for pivotal movement between a latching orientation in which the second structure is nestingly engaged in the first structure and a delatching orientation in which a delatching force applied to the first surface pivots the second surface against one of the first structure and the second structure to move the second structure at least partially out of the nestingly engaged orientation; and an actuator having latching and delatching orientations, the actuator being constructed to mate with the first surface of the pivot arm in the delatching orientation and apply the delatching force to the first surface of the pivot arm.