US 12,238,883 B2
Daughter-card retention system
Anthony Colosi, Quakertown, PA (US); Dustin Hallenbeck, San Jose, CA (US); and Brian G. Bentrim, Furlong, PA (US)
Assigned to Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., Danboro, PA (US)
Filed by Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp., Danboro, PA (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,805.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/238,564, filed on Aug. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0063765 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 7/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/02 (2013.01) [H05K 1/14 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fastening system for a circuit board, comprising:
a circuit board having a hole for receiving a fastener;
a retainer having top and bottom ends with a bore extending along a central longitudinal axis, said retainer having a shank received in the circuit board hole;
a flange on the retainer, said flange having a planar top surface perpendicular to the axis;
a groove in the flange extending around its peripheral surface;
a neck portion of the retainer extending upwardly from the flange top surface to the top end of the retainer;
an elastomeric clip having means for affixation to the retainer groove at a tail end thereof and having means for receipt and attachment to the retainer bore at an opposite attachment end of the clip; and
an electronic component tightly sandwiched between the clip attachment end and the top surface of the retainer flange.