Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Reexamination Certificate
2001-06-18
2002-07-09
Schuberg, Darren (Department: 2835)
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
C361S689000, C361S724000, C361S725000, C361S727000, C439S928100, C312S223100, C312S223200, C248S065000, C248S073000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06418011
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention belongs to a technical field of a mounting apparatus for computer peripheral equipment for detachably mounting, within a computer body, an optical disk drive device, a floppy disk drive device, a card type recording medium recording/reproducing device, a tape-like recording medium recording/reproducing device, and other various computer peripheral equipment.
2. Description of the Related Art
As shown in
FIG. 22
, a plurality of openings
2
are formed in a control panel
1
a
of a computer body
1
of a tower type (a longitudinal type) or the like, and an optical disk drive device
3
and other various computer peripheral equipment
4
are mounted in the plurality of upper and lower openings
2
horizontally and detachably.
A mounting apparatus common to the devices for mounting the optical disk drive device
3
into the computer body
1
is constituted as shown in
FIG. 23
such that four threaded holes (holes having female threads subjected to tapping in the inner circumference)
5
are formed in advance on both left and right sides
3
b
of an outer cover
3
a
of the optical disk drive device
3
or the like and at a predetermined position; that a mounting frame
6
formed of sheet metal into a rectangular shape is fixedly mounted within the computer body
1
; and that a front panel
1
a
formed of synthetic resin of the computer body
1
is removed, one or more optical disk drive devices
3
are inserted horizontally in a direction of arrow a (before and behind) into the mounting frame
6
, two stop screws
7
inserted from both left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
are selectively connected to two out of four threaded holes
5
on both left and right sides
3
b
of the optical disk drive device
3
, and the one or more optical disk drive devices
3
are screwed from both left and right sideways of the one mounting frame
6
.
However, in this mounting apparatus, when the optical disk drive device
3
and the like are screwed to both left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
by means of two stop screws
8
, a pair of left and right side panels
1
b
made of sheet metal or the like screwed to the computer body
1
by means of a number of stop screws
6
also have to be removed every time, and mounting and dismounting of the front panel
1
a
and the side panel
1
b
and many screwing works are necessary, greatly deteriorating operativeness. Development of a new mounting apparatus has been strongly desired.
In view of the foregoing, in recent years, an adaptor
11
shown in
FIG. 24
has been developed. The adaptor
11
is composed of three parts, i.e., a base plate
12
subjected to press working by a thick plate spring, and a pair of thin left and right plate springs
13
mounted in parallel internally of front end portions of both left and right plate parts
12
a
folded vertically upward from both left and right edges of the base plate
12
, the pair of left and right plate springs
13
being caulked to the inside of the front end portion of the base plate
12
by means of a pair of caulking pins
14
. The base plate
12
is formed with four screw insert holes
15
and is horizontally formed on both left and right end edges with a plurality of projections
16
spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, both the left and right plate parts
12
a
being vertically formed on the rear end side with a pair of left and right stopper parts
17
. The pair of left and right plate springs
13
are vertically and integrally formed with a pair of left and right gripping parts
18
and stopping spring parts
19
.
When the optical disk drive device
3
and the like are mounted internally of the computer body
1
shown in
FIG. 22
, first, four stop screws
20
inserted, from downward, into four screw insert holes of the base plate
12
of the adaptor
11
are connected to four threaded holes
21
formed in the bottom
3
c
of the optical disk drive device
3
or the like, the base plate
12
of the adaptor
11
is screwed horizontally to the bottom
3
c
of the optical disk drive device
3
or the like, and the pair of left and right gripping parts
18
and the stopping spring parts
19
are arranged vertically at both side positions of both the left and right sides
3
b
of the optical disk drive device
3
or the like.
The adaptor
11
is inserted integrally with the optical disk drive device
3
or the like horizontally in a direction of arrow a into the mounting frame
6
shown in
FIG. 22
, and the plurality of left and right projections
16
are placed horizontally making use of own weight on a pair of leaf and right place beds (not shown) formed horizontally internally of both the left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
. Then, the pair of left and right stopper parts
17
are placed in contact with a pair of left and right stopper parts (not shown) formed vertically at deep positions internally of both the left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
, and the pair of left and right stopping spring parts
19
are mounted so as to be detachable making use of elasticity on a pair of left and right spring stop parts (not shown) formed vertically at front positions internally of both the left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
.
If the adaptor
11
shown in
FIG. 24
is used, the pair of left and right side panels
1
b
need not be detachably mounted every time but the optical disk drive device
3
or the like can be mounted integral with the adaptor
11
by one-touch operation merely by inserting them into the mounting frame
6
horizontally in a direction of arrow a, unlike the case where the optical disk drive device shown in
FIG. 23
is screwed by means of four stop screws
7
to both the left and right plate parts
6
a
of the mounting frame
6
shown in FIG.
22
. When the optical disk drive device
3
or the is removed from the mounting frame
6
, the front panel
1
a
of the computer body
1
is removed and the pair of left and right gripping parts
18
of the adaptor
11
are merely strongly pulled in a direction of arrow b in
FIG. 22
on the forward side whereby the disk drive device
3
or the like can be removed integral with the adaptor
11
in a direction of arrow b, which is convenient.
However, the mounting apparatus using the adaptor
11
shown in
FIG. 24
is not of the type in which the optical drive device
3
or the like is directly placed on the pair of left and right place bed parts of the mounting frame
6
, but of the type in which the optical disk drive device
3
or the like is placed making use of own weight on the pair of left and right place bed parts internally of the mounting frame
6
by a plurality of projections
16
on both the left and right sides of the base plate
12
of the adaptor
11
. Therefore, as the base plate
12
, a sheet metal which is thick and strong enough to carry weight of the optical disk drive device
3
has to be used to result in an increase of weight and higher cost. Further, a longitudinal (directions of arrows a and b) backlash of the optical disk device
3
inserted into the mounting frame
6
to the mounting frame
6
can be prevented but the vertical backlash is prevented relying upon only the sum total of the optical disk drive device
3
and the adaptor
11
, because of which the vertical backlash cannot be prevented completely.
Moreover, since the adaptor
11
itself is composed of three parts, i.e., the base plate
12
, and the pair of left and right plate springs
13
, and has the construction in which the pair of left and right plate springs
13
are caulked to the inside of the front end sides of the left and right plate parts
12
a
of the base plate
12
using a plurality of caulking pins
14
, there many numbers of parts and many assembling steps of the adaptor
11
itself, resulting in a high unit price of the adaptor
11
itself. In addition, the work for screwing the base plate
12
of the adaptor
11
to the bottom
3
c
of the optical disk d
Foster David
Maioli Jay H.
Schuberg Darren
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