A PC card has an opening (24) in its upper sheet metal cover part for receiving a chip card (20), with a chip card guide (22) provided for guiding movement of an inserted chip card through the opening. The guide has a U-shaped upward projection (31) that lies in the opening against the rear and opposite sides of the opening. The guide has a ramp wall (32) lying under the opening to guide the leading edge of an inserted chip card. The guide is formed of a molded polymer with an upwardly-facing su...

A PC board support is disclosed to include a hollow support shell adapted to support a PC board above a frame, a spring mounted inside the support shell, the support shell having a top opening, a top neck, and a retainer head at the top of the top neck, and a slide supported on the spring inside the support shell and moved along a vertical sliding groove at the retainer head and top neck of the support shell in and out of the top opening to unlock/lock the PC board.

A multilayer CTE compensated chip interposer for connecting a semiconductor chip to a laminate chip carrier. A first dielectric layer, on the chip side of the interposer, is made of a stiff, high elastic modulus, material, such as a ceramic material, with a CTE closely matching the CTE of the chip. A second dielectric layer, on the laminate chip carrier side of the interposer, is made of resilient, low elastic modulus, material with metallurgy formed thereon, such as circuit board material, with...

A printed wiring board in which noise components at a high frequency side of a power supply voltage can be eliminated, and undesired radiation noisewhich is newly generated can be suppressed, such that noise can be greatly reduced overall. The printed wiring board includes a first signal layer, a GND layer, a power source layer and a second signal layer. A sub-power source layer is provided on a same layer as a main power source layer. The sub-power source layer is formed in a substantially oval...

A protecting casing for a transducer has an outer casing, an inner casing, a circuit board and a connector. The inner casing is detachably mounted in the outer casing and has a mounting hole and a cap detachably mounted on the inner casing to cover the mounting hole in a watertight manner. The circuit board is detachably mounted in the inner casing and has a surface, a circuit formed on the surface and a plug with terminals extends out of the inner casing. The connector is detachably mounted to ...

A transceiver cage assembly includes a housing (10) and a grounding device (20). The housing includes at least one receiving space for receiving at least one transceiver module. The grounding device mounted on the housing includes a flat main member (200), and at least one resilient member (220) protruding from the main member. The grounding device provides electrical connection between the housing and bezels.

An exemplary printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board, four supporting members, four shock-absorption members, and four fixing members. The printed circuit board defines a plurality of cutouts therein. Each supporting member defines a positioning hole therein. The shock-absorption members are snapped in the cutouts, and each has a first surface contacting the corresponding supporting member, a second surface parallel to the first surface, and a through hole extending throu...

A portable electronic device (100) includes an upper housing (40), a circuit board (10), a display (12), a battery (14), and a lower housing (20). The upper housing defines a display section (424) therein. The circuit board has a top surface (11) and a bottom surface (13) at an opposite side of the top surface. The display is seen outwardly through the display section. The battery and the display are formed adjacent to each other on the top surface of the circuit board. The circuit board, the ba...

A method and assembly for mounting printed circuit boards (PCBs) to a chassis. In one embodiment, a plurality of internally-threaded mounting posts are secured (e.g., press-fit) to the chassis and the PCB includes a plurality of holes into which the mounting posts extend. Each hole includes a pair of keepout pads to isolate internal PCB circuitry (other than ground planes) from electric contact with the assembly components. A threaded faster is used to secure the assembly. In another embodiment,...

A power distribution module utilizes a planar substrate having an array of repeating slots configured to accept two types of relays, one having four terminals and the other having five terminals. Both relays can mate with the slots of the substrate in a variety of orientations, including reverse orientations wherein the relay terminal footprint can be rotated 180 degrees and still mate with a corresponding, yet shifted, slot footprint.