Cable housing device

Details Cable housing device Cable housing device

1999-10-28

2001-05-22

Bradley, Paula (Department: 2833)

Electrical connectors

With storage means for flaccid conductor

C439S458000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06234831

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cable housing device and, more particularly, it relates to a cable housing device preferably used for a desk setting type information processing device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The information processing device, such as a personal computer, there are those devices in which a display unit and a control unit (monitor) are provided separately from a manual operating unit (keyboard and mouse). This type of the device is termed a separate type device.
The separate type device may be classified into a type presupposed to be set on a desk of an office (desk setting type) and a type presupposed to be set on a floor (floor setting type). In the separate type device, the monitor and the keyboard/mouse need to be interconnected by a cable.
FIG. 6
shows a typical using environment of a conventional desk setting type personal computer.
Referring to
FIG. 6
, a connector
104
is connected to a left lateral side of a rectangular base table
101
a
of a monitor
101
and is connected over a cable
103
to a keyboard
102
.
On the other hand, an information processing device of the type in which the keyboard or the mouse is connected to a display device (monitor) has made its debut as a USB (universal serial bus) recently has come into widespread use. In this case, it is similarly necessary to interconnect the monitor and the keyboard/mouse over a cable.
SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE
However, in the separate type information processing device, the keyboard and the mouse are routinely used in common by both the floor setting type device and the desk setting type device. In this case, the length of the connection cable is designed using the floor setting type device as a reference. Therefore, if the cable for the floor setting type device is used for the desk setting type device, there results an excess length of the cable to raise a variety of operational problems, such as decreased desk top surface, poor appearance or cable entanglement. In
FIG. 6
, the cable with an excess length portion extends in a extensively curved fashion.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a cable housing device in which, by dexterously disposing of the excess cable portion, the desk top surface can be utilized effectively and which is superior in appearance and free from operational problems, such as cable entanglements.
For accomplishing the above object, the present invention provides a cable housing device for accommodating a cable interconnecting a main body of an information processing device and a manual actuating unit (or module), wherein the cable housing device comprises a cable housing member in the form of a flat plate. This cable housing member has an opening for accommodating one end of the cable and another opening for accommodating its other end. The cable housing member also has a curved cable-housing groove interconnecting the one and the other openings.
If the main body portion of the information processing device is to be connected to the manual actuating unit via a cable, an excess length portion of the cable is accommodated in the curved cable-housing groove in the cable housing member. If the curved portions are increased in number, a considerably longer excess portion of the cable can be accommodated in these curved portions. The groove is preferably formed in a meander fashion line “S” letter or a combination thereof. Various modified patterns of the S-shaped meander groove may be employed.
Other aspects and features of the present invention are disclosed in the appended claims which are herein incorporated by reference thereto.


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