Computer housing mounting system

• US 5,897,178 A
• Filed: 06/17/1998
• Issued: 04/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takeyoshi Ohara
• Original Assignee: Takeyoshi Ohara
• Inventors: Ohara, Takeyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE
• Application Number:
  US09/098,247
• Time in Patent Office: 314 Days
• Field of Search: 312/223.1, 312/223.2, 312/330.1, 312/334.4, 312/334.1, 312/348.2, 312/194, 361/724, 361/725, 361/726, 361/727, 361/683, 361/684, 361/686
• US Class Current: 312/223.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0073 Desk with integrated computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/183 Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for printed circuit boards, internal connecting means for buses G06F13/409

Abstract

A drawer type computer housing mounting system including a computer housing formed of a bottom shell, a top cover shell and a face panel, and two sliding rails fastened to two opposite vertical side panels of the bottom shell of the computer housing for permitting it to be moved between two sliding tracks in a desk, wherein the sliding rails each have a first wall and a second wall connected at right angles, and a plurality of mounting holes at the first wall and the second wall for connection to the two opposite vertical side panels of the bottom shell of the computer housing by fastening devices, the first wall and the second wall having different widths so that the sliding rails can be alternatively fastened to the computer housing between two positions to fit the pitch between the sliding tracks in the desk; the vertical side panels of the bottom shell each have a plurality of vertical sliding slots to which the sliding rails are adjustably fastened by fastening devices at the desired elevation.

Claims

1. A computer housing mounting system comprising a bottom shell, a top cover shell covered on said bottom shell at a top side, said bottom shell having two vertical side panels, a vertical front panel and a vertical rear panel, a face panel fastened to the vertical front panel of said bottom shell, two sliding rails respectively fastened to the two opposite vertical side panels of said bottom shell, enabling said bottom shell to be moved in and out of a desk between two sliding tracks inside said desk, and a plurality of fastening devices fastened to said bottom shell and said sliding rails to fix said sliding rails to the vertical side panels of said bottom shell at the desired elevation, wherein the vertical side panels of said bottom shell each comprise an outward flange at a top side, a plurality of hook holes respectively formed at said outward flanges, and a plurality of vertical sliding slots, said vertical sliding slots each being comprised of an elongated narrow portion, and an expanded circular portion at one end of said elongated narrow portion;

said top cover shell comprises a plurality of downward hooks respectively extended from two opposite vertical side walls thereof and forced into engagement with the hook holes on the outward flanges of the vertical side panels of said bottom shell;

said sliding rails each comprise a first wall and a second wall connected at right angles, and a plurality of mounting holes at said first wall and said second wall for connection to the sliding slots on the vertical side panels of said bottom shell selectively by said fastening devices, said first wall and said second wall having different widths;

said fastening devices each are comprised of a headed male screw member and a female screw member, said headed male screw member having a threaded shank onto which said female screw member is threaded, the diameter of said threaded shank of said headed male screw member being approximately equal to the width of the elongated narrow portions of said sliding slots.