Patent ID: 7641495

Claim:
A mounting apparatus for fixing an expansion card, the mounting apparatus comprising: a connector configured for engagingly receiving a bottom portion of the expansion card; and a latching member made by thin strip material, wherein the latching member comprises a top wall, and two sidewalls extending down from opposite sides of the top wall configured for sandwiching the expansion card therebetween; an elastic tab extends between the sidewalls from the top wall, configured for elastically resisting against a top of the expansion card; at least one clipping portion is formed on a bottom of each sidewall, to engage with the connector; wherein an upside down U-shaped slot is defined in the lower part of each sidewall, with two elastic parts formed at opposite sides of the slot, the elastic parts are capable of being deformed toward each other, the at least one clipping portion comprises two clipping portions extending from distal ends of the elastic parts, respectively; the connector comprises a top surface, and two sidewalls perpendicular to the top surface; each clipping portion comprises a horizontal part perpendicularly extending outward from the distal end of a corresponding elastic part to resist against the top surface of the connector, and a clipping part perpendicularly extending down from a distal end of the horizontal part opposite to the elastic part to resist against a corresponding sidewall of the connector.