Device for contact between a case bottom and cover of a closed housing

• US 5,398,833 A
• Filed: 09/13/1993
• Issued: 03/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Klauss, Helmut, Stickel, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): MOY, JOSEPH MAN
• Application Number:
  US08/117,184
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 220/4.21, 220/4.02, 220/4.26, 220/4.28, 220/4.33, 220/615, 220/617, 220/621, 220/682
• US Class Current: 220/4.02
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0016 having a spring contact

Abstract

Rails (6) are mounted on the insides of the side walls of a cuboid housing parallel to the top side of the housing. After the cover (1) has been mounted on the case bottom (2) of the housing, the rail (6) embraces with its U-shaped profile a seating support (7) which is opposite it and is joined to the case bottom (2). A plurality of sheet-metal strip springs (3) are introduced captively between the rail (6) and seating support (7).

Claims

1. A device for contact between a case bottom and cover of a closed housing, in which the cover can be pushed and/or slipped over the case bottom, comprising:

both the case bottom and the cover each are of a cuboid form that is open at least towards one side and are each produced in one piece from metal sheet,

rails arranged on insides of two mutually opposite side walls of the cover, said rails being of a U-shaped profile and defining a spring receiving surface approximately at right angles to the side walls of the cover,

a supporting surface joined to a side wall of the case bottom that is opposite said spring receiving surface, said supporting surface being embraced by legs of said U-shaped rails, and

contact springs are captively arranged between said spring receiving surface and said supporting surface.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said spring receiving surface is parallel to surface of an outside of the cover.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

lug-like projections on edges of the case bottom against which the cover bears when the housing is closed, said lug-like projections being aligned such that they are parallel to a surface of the cover bearing against them.

4. A device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

strip contact springs arranged between surfaces of said lug-like projections which are directed toward the cover and the cover.

5. A device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said lug-like projections and said supporting surfaces of the case bottom are formed by bending the sheet metal of the case bottom.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rails are formed by bending edge regions of the side walls of the cover.

7. A device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said supporting surfaces and said lug-like projections overlap one another and are joined to one another at overlap points.

8. A device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said overlap points are joined to one another by arches.