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News Release from: Parvus Corp | Subject: DuraChassis
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2003
Enclosures protect embedded PCs from
shocks
Parvus describes its DuraChassis line of extruded aluminium PC/104 enclosures as the most ruggedised and simple-to-use PC/104 chassis available today commercially off the shelf.
Parvus describes its DuraChassis line of extruded aluminium PC/104 enclosures as the most ruggedised and simple-to-use PC/104 chassis available today commercially-off-the-shelf (COTS) Made of lightweight, clear-anodised aluminium, this innovative enclosure system is the first of its kind to integrate a removable railed card cage subassembly designed for shock mitigation and simple card removal
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Aimed at embedded systems applications in the military, medical, industrial, aerospace, and transportation fields, Parvus' DuraChassis delivers the industry's highest level of PC/104 system serviceability, simplifying field retrofits, reconfigurations, and upgrades.
Its design completely eliminates the need for traditional standoffs/spacers and provides a simpler board removal method than any other PC/104 enclosure on the market.
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Card cage adds flexibility to PC/104 systems
New from Parvus Corp, the PC/104 variable railed card cage is a flexible board-mounting solution used to contain PC/104 modules within an embedded computer system.
PC/104 modules are alternatively securely held in an aluminium card cage, receiving four solid points of attachment, along with complete access to any PC/104 module in the card stack by simply removing four bolts on the card cage.
The chassis also provides a very high degree of protection against damaging shock and vibration energies common to mobile, airborne, shipboard, and other demanding embedded PC/104 environments.
59 durometer Silastic silicone shock absorbers attached to the perimeter of its railed card cage effectively reduce G-loads felt by a PC/104 system in three dimensions by up to a factor of ten.
These specially designed shock absorbers have been field tested to even meet stringent MIL-STD-810 requirements.
For low-shock/vibration applications, the DuraChassis is alternatively available with a card cage rigidly mounted with plastic rail clips rather than shock isolators.
The DuraChassis comes in four standard lengths - 6.0, 8.0, 10.0 and 12.0in - to accommodate up to 5, 8, 11 and 14 PC/104 cards, respectively.
It also comes with either dust or NEMA end caps to provide protection against dust, splashing water and other environmental conditions.
The dust variety fits flush on the end of the extrusion, while NEMA end caps are thicker and have a lip that fits around the extrusion end to improve the environmental seal and enable optional gasketing to be used for a NEMA 4x rated protection.
End caps come prepunched with standard PC I/0 connector holes for RJ45, power, video, keyboard, mouse, parallel, and serial ports.
Custom end caps are also available.
The bottom of the DuraChassis extrusion incorporates dovetailed grooves designed to mate with an optional aluminium baseplate, allowing it to be mounted to a wall, bulkhead or other fixture.
The inside of the extrusion integrates heatsinking grooves along two internal walls for convective cooling, increasing surface area and dissipating heat away from a PC/104 system.
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