Supports: cabinet structure – For particular electrical device or component – Housing for computer or computer related equipment
Patent
1998-11-16
2000-05-09
Wilkens, Janet M.
Supports: cabinet structure
For particular electrical device or component
Housing for computer or computer related equipment
3122236, 3122233, 312196, H05K 718
Patent
active
060593857
ABSTRACT:
A computer module for use in combination with a desk wherein the computer is concealed within the desk to provide free work space and improved aesthetics. The computer module is shallow in vertical depth near the front of the desk to maximize leg and storage room beneath the front of the desk and to minimize visual impact. The computer module includes a deeper section near the rear of the desk to allow for the use of standardized computer components and connectors including a standard mother board and standard vertical expansion circuit boards. Furthermore the computer is designed to have a front to back dimension approximately equal to the front to back dimension of the desk. In this way, the user interface elements of the computer are flush with the front of the desk and the external connectors are flush with the back of the desk. Connectors through the side of the computer module for the keyboard, video display and mouse provide allow those components to also be modularly inegrated into the desk with their cables concealed within the desk cavity. In effect, the computer module makes the desk the computer.
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