Joseph M Cardona

US Patent:

7355861, Apr 8, 2008

Filed:

Nov 9, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/272472

Inventors:

Max W. Durney - San Francisco CA, US
Joseph C. Cardona - San Francisco CA, US
Chien (Ryan) Lam - San Francisco CA, US
William H. Schnoebelen - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Industrial Origami, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

H05K 7/14

US Classification:

361756, 361741, 361802

Abstract:

A card guide for mounting printed circuit boards, electronic pathway or component carrying cards, or the like, to an electronic equipment housing having a wall with a pair of openings formed to receive mounting feet provided on the card guide. The card guide body includes a card-receiving guideway on an inwardly facing side of the body and a card mounting structure on the outwardly facing side of the body. The card mounting structure preferably includes L-shaped posts or feet having longitudinally extending portions which enable the card guide to be inserted through an opening in a housing wall to a position in which the L-shaped feet interlock with the housing wall adjacent to the openings. Most preferably the card guide body is resiliently flexible and can be bowed to allow insertion into pairs of mounting openings and will spring back once inserted to secure the card guide to the housing wall. Embodiments suitable for mounting the card guide to a single housing wall or a sandwich of two abutting housing walls are disclosed.

US Patent:

D3648583, Dec 5, 1995

Filed:

Nov 9, 1992

Appl. No.:

D/001260

Inventors:

Michael C. McGrath - Pleasanton CA
Joseph C. Cardona - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Avatar Systems Corporation - Milpitas CA

US Classification:

D14114

US Patent:

56360959, Jun 3, 1997

Filed:

Apr 11, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/225737

Inventors:

Michael C. McGrath - Pleasanton CA
Joseph C. Cardona - San Jose CA
Dan Cautis - San Mateo CA

Assignee:

Avatar Systems Corp. - Milpitas CA

International Classification:

G11B 2303

US Classification:

360133

Abstract:

An engagement interface between a removable cartridge containing a rigid disk for storage of data and a disk drive. The cartridge includes an opening for a hub of the disk for spinning and the disk drive has a magnetic spindle with connecting mechanism for extending the spindle into contact with the hub and retracting it out of contact. The cartridge also includes a disk immobilizer to hold the disk with its hub centered in the opening when the cartridge is outside the disk drive, and a detachable mechanical interconnection between the hub and the housing to retain the hub generally centered in the opening when the disk immobilizer is deactivated as the cartridge is inserted in the disk drive but before the spindle has engaged the hub for instances when the cartridge is inserted in the disk drive with other than a vertical orientation.