Outer casing of electric equipment

• US 20050068749A1
• Filed: 09/28/2004
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Watanabe, Masakazu
• Granted Patent: US 6,903,937 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/752
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 25/10 Apparatus capable of using record carriers defined in more than one of the sub-groups G11B25/02 - G11B25/08; Adaptor devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/02 Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon

Abstract

An outer casing of an electric equipment including: a front panel; a base case having a bottom plate portion and a pair of side plate portions; a top case having a roof portion, a pair of side plate portions, a roof portion protruding piece, and a pair of side plate protruding pieces; and a fixing member. A longitudinal width of each of side plate protruding pieces is set smaller than a longitudinal width of the recess portion for a predetermined length. The outer casing further includes a pair of pedestals integrally formed at both end portions of a bottom face of the recess portion with height thereof being set substantially the same as the predetermined length.

Claims

1. An outer casing of an electric equipment comprising:

a front panel made of synthetic resin and having a recess portion formed at a backside thereof;

a base case made of metal and having a bottom plate portion and a pair of side plate portions perpendicularly formed at both side edge of the bottom plate portion, respectively;

a top case made of metal and having a roof portion, a pair of side plate portions perpendicularly formed at respective side edge of the bottom plate portion, a roof portion protruding piece being formed by bending a front edge portion of the roof portion and protrudes frontward, and a pair of side plate protruding pieces being formed by bending front edge portions of both side plate portions of the top case and protrude frontward; and

a screw that fixes each of the pair of side plate portions of the base case and the top case being overlapped with each other while the base case and the top case being arranged at the backside of the front panel and the roof protruding piece and the pair of side plate protruding pieces being inserted in the recess portion of the front panel,

wherein a longitudinal width of each of the side plate protruding pieces is set smaller than a longitudinal width of the recess portion for a predetermined length,

wherein the outer casing further comprises a pair of pedestals integrally formed at both end portions of a bottom face of the recess portion with height thereof being set substantially the same as the predetermined length,

wherein the front panel includes;

two both end support arms extending backward from portions proximate to both end portions of the lower face of the roof portion of the front panel;

a plurality of central support arms which protrude at predetermined intervals at the center of the lower face of the roof portion of the front panel and extend backward;

two side support arms extending backward from portions close to the upper and lower end portions of the inner side of each side plate of the front panel; and

a disk insertion hole and a cassette insertion hole of an electromagnetic tape device integrated with a disk player that is accommodated in the outer casing, the disk insertion hole and the cassette insertion hole being arranged in parallel with each other and formed on a front face of the front panel,

wherein the top case includes;

a pair of L-shaped pieces being formed by bending downward at right angles at portions proximate to both end portions of the roof portion protruding piece; and

a J-shaped piece being formed by bending downward into an arc shape at a portion of the roof portion protruding piece except for the pair of L-shaped pieces,

wherein a forward end portion of each of the pair of L-shaped pieces is engaged in a positioning groove formed in the two both end support arms,

wherein the J-shaped piece is put on the central support arms, and

wherein each of the side plate protruding piece is inserted into a slit formed in each of the two side support arms.

2. An outer casing of an electric equipment comprising:

a front panel having a recess portion formed at a backside thereof;

a base case having a bottom plate portion and a pair of side plate portions perpendicularly formed at both side edge of the bottom plate portion, respectively;

a top case having a roof portion, a pair of side plate portions perpendicularly formed at respective side edge of the bottom plate portion, a roof portion protruding piece being formed by bending a front edge portion of the roof portion and protrudes frontward, and a pair of side plate protruding pieces being formed by bending front edge portions of both side plate portions of the top case and protrude frontward; and

a fixing member that fixes each of the pair of side plate portions of the base case and the top case being overlapped with each other while the base case and the top case being arranged at the backside of the front panel and the roof protruding piece and the pair of side plate protruding pieces being inserted in the recess portion of the front panel,

wherein a longitudinal width of each of the side plate protruding pieces is set smaller than a longitudinal width of the recess portion for a predetermined length, and

wherein the outer casing further comprises a pair of pedestals integrally formed at both end portions of a bottom face of the recess portion with height thereof being set substantially the same as the predetermined length.

3. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the front panel is made of synthetic resin.

4. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the base case is made of metal.

5. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the top case is made of metal.

6. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the fixing member includes a screw.

7. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the front panel includes:

two both end support arms extending backward from portions proximate to both end portions of the lower face of the roof portion of the front panel; and

a plurality of central support arms which protrude at predetermined intervals at the center of the lower face of the roof portion of the front panel and extend backward,

wherein the top case includes;

a pair of L-shaped pieces being formed by bending downward at right angles at portions proximate to both end portions of the roof portion protruding piece; and

a J-shaped piece being formed by bending downward into an arc shape at a portion of the roof portion protruding piece except for the pair of L-shaped pieces,

wherein a forward end portion of each of the pair of L-shaped pieces is engaged in a positioning groove formed in the two both end support arms, and

wherein the J-shaped piece is put on the central support arms.

8. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the front panel includes two side support arms extending backward from portions close to the upper and lower end portions of the inner side of each side plate of the front panel, and

wherein each of the side plate protruding piece is inserted into a slit formed in each of the two side support arms.

9. The outer casing according to claim 2, wherein the front panel includes a disk insertion hole and a cassette insertion hole of an electromagnetic tape device integrated with a disk player that is accommodated in the outer casing, the disk insertion hole and the cassette insertion hole being arranged in parallel with each other and formed on a front face of the front panel.