Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Housings
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-11
2002-11-19
Le, Que T. (Department: 2878)
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Housings
C361S689000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06483107
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The field of the invention is computer peripheral enclosures and more particularly a canister having a combined guide rail and light pipe system for use in computer peripheral enclosures.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,822,184 teaches a modular data device assembly for a computer is disclosed, wherein the assembly has a housing that is designed to fit into a conventional, industry standard size expansion bay. Individual plug-in data storage devices, such as hard disk drive and CD-ROM drives, are disposed vertically in a stacked formation within the housing. A motherboard with plug-in connectors to which the drives are connected allows easy replacement of defective data devices, which devices slide in or out. The disk drives and modular data device assemblies may be arrayed in either series or in parallel to a controller. By its modular structure and redundant storage functions, the device benefits from what is known as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk principle.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,797,667 teaches a hard disk drive mount which includes a stop bar at either side of a front end of a hard disk drive frame. The stop bars prevent a pull handle on a case of the hard disk drive frame from being forcefully pulled up thereby protecting the hard disk drive lock. The relative movement between the pull handle and the stop bar may result in a counter force between the case and a mount to cause two connecting ports to be separated to permit smooth removal of the hard disk drive.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,828,548 teaches a removable hard disk drive mount which includes structures at the end of a rack which cooperate with structures on the shaft of a pivotal handle to ensure that final insertion of the hard disk drive casing into the rack is carried out in an even manner without excessive force. The mount includes two notches which are disposed at the end of a pivotal shaft of a handle for the casing and corresponding angles and bent portions of the rack which permit final insertion of the hard disk drive casing into the rack only when the handle is turned from a horizontal to a vertical position.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,886,869 teaches a sleeve which holds a hard disk drive in portable removable engagement with a computer. The sleeve includes a base and a cover attachable to the base by mechanism of threaded fasteners. The base includes plural holder arms. When the cover is removed from the base and the hard disk drive advanced into the base, the holder arms move outwardly as the hard drive rides on the arms. When the hard disk drive clears the arms, the arms, which are biased to a hold configuration, move back inwardly to hold the hard disk drive in the base, with the cover then attached to the base. The edge of the cover cooperates with the base to hold the holder arms in the hold configuration and thereby securely hold the hard disk drive in the sleeve.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,741,055 teaches a hard disk drive converting drawer which includes a drawer and a fixing seat. A pull handle is back and forth slidably disposed at the front end of bottom side of the drawer. A transverse beam is disposed between two balance levers of the pull handle for back and forth pulling an auxiliary lever to press and close/open a touch switch. When the touch switch is pressed and closed, the auxiliary lever is forced by a leaf spring disposed on one side to retract the pull handle to a hidden position. When the touch switch is bounded open, the pull handle is pushed and ejected for a user to easily pull out the pull handle. When pulling the pull handle, the auxiliary lever is driven to push a stopper block projecting from one side of the fixing seat so as to smoothly draw out the drawer from the fixing seat for taking out the hard disk drive.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,808,871 teaches a modular tower which has a plurality of bays which are fitted with rails upon which individual trays slide. The trays are detailed to carry electronic components. Each tray is fitted with electrical connectors which are connected to corresponding electrical connectors on a backplane in the tower. The tower can be employed vertically and horizontally. The tower has easily removable top and side panels and has a two component base that may be adjustably secured to one or more of the towers. The front thereof is fitted with a removable frame which carries a hinged door. The frame can be removed and rotated 180 degrees in order to change the swing of the door from left to right and vice-versa.
U.S. Pat. No. D403,945 teaches an ornamental design for a connector unit.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,788,347 teaches a system which interlocks various computer peripheral enclosures to prevent them from falling off of either desk tops or each other, to compactly organize them to save space and prevent disconnection or tangling of their connecting wires, to more easily and securely move them from one location to another and to provide an attractive interlocking arrangement. L-shaped brackets are secured to the enclosures or housings, preferably at the enclosure bases, and extending up their sides. Interlocking devices have snap-in members at each end thereof. One member snaps into an opening in a bracket of one enclosure unit and another member snaps into an opening in a bracket of another enclosure unit thereby the two units are securely held together in a side-by-side or one-on-top-of-the-other arrangement. Insertion of a narrow tool into an opening in the bracket allows for either easy unsnapping or disconnect. Optional carrying handle, cable manager and angled foot support are provided for releasable snap fit attachment to the brackets. The device relates primarily to systems for interlocking computer peripheral modules together in various horizontal and/or vertical stacking arrangements. Computer systems today, both in the home and office, typically include numerous storage or other peripheral devices, such as CD ROMs, floppy disks, magnetic optical disk drives and tape back-up systems, to be connected by wires or otherwise operated in conjunction with a computer. It is important to organize and arrange these devices to be in efficient close proximity to one another, to minimize the horizontal as well as vertical space which they occupy and to connect them together in the desired arrangement securely to prevent them from falling off of one another and/or off of desk or table tops. Unfortunately, the interlocking systems of the prior art do not provide for easy flexible use, easy unlocking and unlocking and an attractive appearance. Directed to remedying the problems in the prior art, an interlocking system is adapted for either interconnecting or mechanically locking together computer peripheral enclosures, is herein provided. The system includes four L-shaped brackets which are connected to the bottom of a first enclosure or modular unit. Two of them extend with their back portions up one side of the unit and the other two up the other side. The feet of the brackets are screwed to the bottom surfaces of the units. Four similar brackets are similarly attached to a second unit. A first interlocking device is snap fit at one end to one of the back portions of the first unit and the opposite end to one of the back portions of the second unit. A similar second interlocking device is snap fit into the corresponding back portions parallel thereto of the two units. And thereby the first and second units are securely held together in side-by-side or one on top of the other arrangements. Inserting narrow tools into openings in the brackets releases the snap fit interlock as desired, to disconnect the units. Instead of locking two units together, the interlocking devices can be configured and connected together as a carrying handle for one of the units, as a cable handler for the unit, or as an angled base for the unit. Different external surface configurations of the back portions, the body portions of the interlocking devices, the top trim caps and the bottom foot pads allow for various attractive system designs, and also to enclose them to prevent dust or dirt from collecting th
Danino Eli
Fisk Richard
Rabinovitz Josef
Johansen W. Edward
Le Que T.
Rabinovitz Josef
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