Plastic computer housing/access door apparatus with integrally m

Details Plastic computer housing/access door apparatus with integrally m Plastic computer housing/access door apparatus with integrally m

1998-05-22

2000-09-26

Feild, Lynn D.

Electricity: electrical systems and devices

Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...

For electronic systems and devices

220341, G06F 116, H05K 502

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active

061250317

ABSTRACT:
A tower computer housing has a molded plastic exterior wall portion with an access opening therein, a molded plastic access door, and a specially designed hinge structure that supports the access door on the housing for pivotal movement relative thereto between closed and open positions in which the door respectively covers and uncovers the access opening. The hinge structure includes spaced pairs of hinge pins and cam arms molded integrally on opposite ends of the access door, and spaced apart first and second resilient mounting and spring tab sets molded integrally with the housing exterior wall portion. Each of these sets includes a resilient mounting tab having a mounting hole therein and positioned between an opposed pair of resilient spring tabs. The door pins are removably snap-fitted into the mounting tab holes, and each of the door cam arms is positioned between and slidingly engages a pair of the spring tabs. When the door is manually pivoted through an initial arc toward a selected one of its closed and open positions, the spring tabs are deflected and function to automatically drive the door through a final arc to its selected position.

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