1. An apparatus securing a memory module to a memory module socket, the apparatus comprising:
a bracket device securely holding the memory module against the memory module socket, wherein the memory module cannot disengage from the memory module socket without first removing the bracket.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory module socket is affixed to a printed circuit board surface; and
wherein the bracket device is affixed to the printed circuit board surface.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bracket device is affixed to the printed circuit board surface with a threaded fastener.
4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bracket device is affixed to the printed circuit board surface with a rivet.
5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bracket device is affixed to the printed circuit board surface with an adhesive.
6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bracket device is affixed to the printed circuit board surface with a thermally formed joint.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bracket device comprises heat dissipation fins.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bracket device locks spring clips of the memory module socket into place to securely hold the memory module.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bracket device includes tabs to grip locator cut-outs of the memory module.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bracket includes a flat wall to abut against an end of the memory module distal to an end of the memory module that engages to the memory module socket, the flat wall preventing the memory module from accidentally disengaging from the memory module socket.
11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory module comprises a small outline dual in-line memory module.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the bracket device comprises two brackets, each bracket configured to affix to a short side of the memory module.
13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory module comprises a dual in-line memory module.
14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bracket device is configured to slide into a first position in which the memory module is held against the memory module socket and into a second position in which the memory module is free to be disengaged.
15. A system comprising a securing device securing a memory module to a printed circuit board, the securing device comprising:
a bracket affixed to the printed circuit board and securely holding the memory module against a memory module socket to prevent the memory module from accidentally disengaging from the memory module socket.
16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a layer of temperature interface material located between the memory module and the printed circuit board.
17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a layer of temperature interface material located between the memory module and the bracket.
18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a second bracket holding a second memory module against a second memory module socket.
19. The system of claim 18, wherein the second bracket can be removed while the first bracket can remain affixed to the printed circuit board.
20. The system of claim 18, further comprising a layer of temperature interface material located on both flat sides of both memory modules.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A contraceptive or sterilization system for occluding a reproductive body lumen to prevent the passage of reproductive cells therethrough, comprising: a) an occluding member which is at least in part expandable within the reproductive body lumen from a first configuration to a second larger configuration to facilitate securing the expanded portion of the occluding member to a wall portion which defines at least in part the reproductive body lumen; b) means to secure the expanded portion of the occluding member to the wall portion; and c) means to contract the expanded portion of the occluding member so that the wall portion secured thereto likewise contracts to occlude the reproductive body lumen sufficiently to prevent the passage of reproductive cells therethrough.
2. A method for sterilizing a female patient by occluding the patient’s fallopian tube, comprising: a) reducing transverse dimensions of at least a portion of the patient’s fallopian tube; b) maintaining an occlusive body within the portion of the patient’s fallopian tube having reduced transverse dimensions, wherein said occlusive body is configured to provoke an inflammatory response in the patient’s fallopian tube.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the transverse dimensions of a portion of the patient’s fallopian tube are reduced by securing a tubular member to the fallopian tube and collapsing the tubular member.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the tubular member has an open-wall structure.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the tubular member is formed of shape memory alloy which has a stable martensite phase at body temperature, has a first small dimensioned configuration facilitating the introduction thereof into a lumen of a patient’s reproductive system, is expandable to a second larger configuration facilitating securing a least a portion of the tubular member to a wall portion of the patient’s fallopian tube, has an open-wall structure facilitating tissue ingrowth thereby securing the expanded portion of the tubular member to the wall portion and has a contracted remembered shape in an austenite phase at temperatures higher than body temperature with a remembered configuration having smaller transverse dimensions than the second larger configuration.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein tissue ingrowth into the open-wall structure of the tubular member secures to the tubular member to an interior portion of the patient’s fallopian tube.
7. The method of claim 2, wherein occlusion of the fallopian tube is augmented by tissue ingrowth.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the occlusive body is maintained in the reduced diameter portion of the fallopian tube for sufficient time to allow tissue ingrowth.
9. The method of claim 2 wherein the inflammatory response is provoked by a copper element associated with the occlusive body.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein the transverse dimensions of the patient’s fallopian tube are reduced by securing a tubular member within the patient’s fallopian tube and collapsing at least a portion of the tubular member.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the tubular member has an open wall structure to facilitate tissue ingrowth to secure the tubular member to the fallopian tube.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the tubular member is formed of shape memory material and the collapsed state is a remembered shape.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein the occlusive body contains grooves.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the occlusive body contains holes.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein the copper element is associated with said holes.
16. The method of claim 13 wherein the copper element is associated with said grooves.