Patent ID: 7907421

Claim:
A method of retaining an expansion card assembly or card bay cover in a card bay of an information handling system, the method comprising: providing an expansion card retaining apparatus that includes: a pivotable first end, the pivotable first end being rotatably attached to a securing surface of the information handling system chassis, a latching second end, the latching second end being configured to be at least partially received in a chassis opening defined in a card bay assembly surface of the information handling system chassis that has a frontside and backside, at least one resiliently deformable coupling section extending between the pivotable first end and the latching second end, and a retention section extending between the at least one coupling section and the pivotable first end; positioning the retention section to bias a retaining bracket of the card assembly or card bay cover against a securing surface of the information handling system chassis while at the same time the latching second end is in a locking position within the chassis opening to retain the expansion card assembly or card bay cover in installed position within the card bay; and releasably locking the expansion card retaining apparatus within the chassis opening defined in the card bay assembly surface of the information handling system chassis in the locking position to prevent rotation of the expansion card retaining apparatus about the pivotable first end by positioning the latching second end within the chassis opening to maintain the latching second end in the locking position with the bias applied to the retaining bracket of the card assembly or card bay cover; wherein the expansion card retaining apparatus includes two resiliently deformable coupling sections extending between the pivotable first end and the latching second end; wherein each of the two resiliently deformable coupling sections forms a part of a respective clip segment, the two respective clip segments being adjacently spaced apart from each other; and wherein the latching second end comprises a transverse linking segment that links together the two adjacently-spaced clip segments.