Patent ID: 6997743

Claim:
A card-securing device for securing a card to a main printed circuit board, comprising: a plate body including a main plate adapted to be disposed on the card and having opposite first and second ends and opposite first and second sides extending between said first and second ends, a pair of side-securing plates disposed adjacent to said first end of said main plate, each of said side-securing plates being adapted to extend through the main printed circuit board and having a base portion that extends downwardly from a respective one of said first and second sides of said main plate and that is adapted to be disposed on an upper surface of the main printed circuit board, and having a tab portion that is adapted to be disposed below the main printed circuit board and that is bendable to a folded state in which said tab portion is adapted to anchor on a bottom surface of the main printed circuit board, and an end-securing plate adapted to extend through the main printed circuit board and having a base portion that extends downwardly from said second end of said main plate and that is adapted to be disposed on the upper surface of the main printed circuit board, and having a tab portion that is adapted to be disposed below the main printed circuit board and that is bendable to a folded state in which said tab portion of said end-securing plate is adapted to anchor on the bottom surface of the main printed circuit board; wherein said base portion of said end-securing plate has two opposite sides, and is formed with two opposite side tabs, each of said two opposite side tabs extending from a respective one of said opposite sides of said base portion of said end-securing plate in a direction toward said first end of said main plate in a manner structured to support an end of the card thereon.