In some examples, enabling spring 402 to compress within link 120(A) may prevent FRU 102 from being driven into an overmated position and/or condition. For example, spring 402 may compress appropriately and/or as necessary to absorb any and/or all excess force inadvertently applied to multi-bar ejector 116 by a technician when closing multi-bar ejector 116. In addition, spring 402 may compress and/or decompress to account for various engineering tolerances of FRU 102 and/or the housing of the telecommunications system, thereby ensuring that FRU 102 is fully mated (but not overmated) with the backplane of the telecommunications system.

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of an exemplary method 700 for preventing demate between FRUs and telecommunications systems. As illustrated in FIG. 7, method 700 may include the step of securing at least one spring to a multi-bar ejector that fastens to a housing of a telecommunications system (710). This securing step may be performed in a variety of ways and/or contexts. For example, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer and/or subcontractor may assemble multi-bar ejector 116.

In one example, the telecommunications equipment manufacturer and/or subcontractor may assemble multi-bar ejector 116 by manufacturing two link-lever pairs that each contain an instance of spring 402. In this example the telecommunications equipment manufacturer and/or subcontractor may secure each instance of spring 402 between instances of bracket 404 and rod-end 406. The telecommunications equipment manufacturer may then attach each link-lever pair to connection 122.