Identification panel for electronic equipment cabinet

• US 5,363,578 A
• Filed: 04/24/1992
• Issued: 11/15/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Chesley, David, Hetfield, Margaret, Hanson, Robert L., Falck, Deborah
• Primary Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US07/873,319
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 40/491, 40/488, 40/152, 40/152.1, 312/234, 312/234.1, 312/204
• US Class Current: 40/488
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/08 the elements being secured or adapted to be secured by means of grooves, rails, or slits
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure

Abstract

An identification panel for a cabinet for electronic equipment, such as computers or computer peripherals. A back panel is mounted to an intermediate window and doorframe member having a control door frame, and a translucent window aligned with the back panel. The back panel may incorporate permanent identifying artwork for the equipment. This assemblage is accommodated in an opening of, and secured to, an external cover frame. The cover frame opening also accommodates a control panel door mounted on the intermediate window and doorframe member to cover the doorframe opening and slidable behind the translucent window to uncover the doorframe opening. The translucent window has a part-cylindrical convex surface which projects through the cover frame opening to provide a lens effect which enhances the visibility of artwork provided on the back panel. Additional artwork, for example model identification, may be provided on a translucent sheet overlaying the curved surface of the translucent window and removably located in position by engagement of the peripheral margins of the sheet between the translucent window and the cover frame.

Claims

1. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet, comprising:

a window and doorframe member including;

a doorframe portion framing a generally rectangular opening,

a window portion having a front and back,

a door member, slidably mounted in said window and doorframe member having a first position in which said door member covers said generally rectangular opening and a second position in which said door member leaves said generally rectangular opening uncovered;

a translucent artwork sheet,

means for mounting said artwork sheet such that said artwork sheet protrudes outwardly from said front of said window portion; and

an artwork panel, mounted on said back of said window portion, so that said artwork panel is visible through said translucent artwork sheet.

2. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a translucent window section of said window portion, behind said artwork sheet, to support said sheet.

3. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 2, wherein said translucent window section is arcuate about a major axis of said window portion.

4. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 2, wherein said door member is translucent and wherein said door member in said second position lies between said translucent window section and said artwork panel.

5. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 2, wherein said translucent window section and said window and doorframe member are a unitary assembly.

6. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet, comprising:

a window and doorframe member comprising;

a doorframe portion defining a plane and framing a generally rectangular opening,

a translucent window portion protruding outwardly from the plane defined by said doorframe portion,

a door member, slidably mounted in said window and doorframe member having a first position in which said door member covers said generally rectangular opening and a second position in which said door member leaves said generally rectangular opening uncovered; and

an artwork panel, mounted on the back of said window portion, so that said artwork panel is visible through said translucent window portion.

7. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet, comprising:

a cover member defining an opening;

a generally rectangular window and doorframe member including;

a window portion, convex in a cross section transverse to an axis of elongation of said generally rectangular window and doorframe member;

said window and doorframe member mounted to said cover member so that a surface of said window portion of said window and doorframe member protrudes through the opening defined by said cover member

said window and doorframe member further mounted to define a channel between said window and doorframe member and said cover member;

a generally rectangular opening in said window and doorframe member;

a door member, slidably mounted in said channel, so that said door member covers said rectangular opening in one position and so that said door member leaves said rectangular opening uncovered in a second position; and

an artwork panel, mounted on said window and doorframe member, so that said artwork panel is visible through said window portion.

8. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 7, further comprising posts on said window and doorframe member, said posts engaging openings in said artwork panel, wherein said posts extend through said artwork panel to secure said artwork panel in position relative to said window and doorframe member.

9. An identification panel for an electronic equipment cabinet as claimed in claim 7, further comprising ridged deflectable tabs extending from said cover member and engaging with openings in said window and doorframe member to hold said window and doorframe member in position relative to said cover member.