Title:
【発明の名称】デスクトップ・コンピュータとアダプタとの組合せ構造および製造方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3017062
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
The present invention provides an adapter for utilizing a PCMCIA card in a desktop computer which has at least one card slot and one bay. The adapter includes a logic card configured to be inserted into the card slot of the computer. The logic card has logic thereon to convert PCMCIA bus architecture of the PCMCIA card to the bus architecture of the desktop computer in a bidirectional manner. There may be at least one PCMCIA card receiving slot on the logic card connected to the logic. A first set of external connectors on the logic card is connected to one end of a multi-conductor flexible cable. An outrigger card which includes at least one PCMCIA card is provided which is configured to be inserted into an externally accessible bay of the computer. A second set of connectors on the outrigger card is connected to the opposite end of the multi-conductor flexible cable. Conductors on the outrigger card connect the second set of connectors on the outrigger card to the PCMCIA card receiving slot(s) thereon. Capacitors are connected between at least some of the conductors and a plane maintained at a predetermined voltage on the outrigger card in order to reduce the distortion of the signals received from the flexible conductor at the outrigger card.
Inventors:
Mark Budman
Daniel Joseph Hunt
Mark Joseph Kuzawinski
David Earl Ream
Daniel Joseph Hunt
Mark Joseph Kuzawinski
David Earl Ream
Application Number:
JP28311295A
Publication Date:
March 06, 2000
Filing Date:
October 31, 1995
Export Citation:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
International Classes:
G06F1/18; G06F3/00; G06K17/00; H05K1/02; H05K1/14; H05K3/00; (IPC1-7): G06F3/00; G06F1/18; G06K17/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroshi Sakaguchi (1 person outside)