Removable electronic device with handle structure

• US 8,059,396 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2009
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Wu, Chih-Chi, Chen, Hung-Chuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Jinhee
• Assistant Examiner(s): WRIGHT, INGRID D
• Application Number:
  US12/349,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20100014223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 36167933-67939, 361/679.02, 361/679.01, 361/679.58, 3122231-2232
• US Class Current: 361/679.37
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/023 Handles; Grips

Abstract

The present invention is related to a removable electronic device with handle structure suitable for an electronic apparatus, including a housing having an accommodating trough, a handle structure, an elastic engaging device, and an engaging component corresponding to the elastic engaging device, wherein the handle structure is pivotally mounted on and received in the accommodating trough through an engagement between the elastic engaging device and the engaging component.

Claims

1. A removable electronic device with handle structure suitable for an electronic apparatus, comprising:

a housing, having an accommodating trough;

a handle structure;

an elastic engaging device; and

an engaging component, corresponding to the elastic engaging device, wherein the handle structure is rotated by taking the elastic engaging device as an axle center, and the handle structure is pivotally mounted on and received in the accommodating trough through an engagement between the elastic engaging device and the engaging component, and the handle structure further comprises a first position-limiting portion and a second position -limiting portion for respectively engaging with a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole formed on a bottom plane of the electronic apparatus, so as to limit the movement of the handle structure.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic engaging device is mounted on the handle structure and the engaging component is mounted on the housing.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic engaging device is a bulge.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the engaging component is a trough hole corresponding to the bulge.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the bulge further comprises a top portion, a spool portion and at least a slot, which penetrates through the top portion and the spool portion.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the top portion further comprises an upper surface and an inclined plane connected with the upper surface.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein during an engagement of the bulge and the through hole, the upper surface of the top portion rejects to an edge of the through hole first, the inclined plane guides the top portions to slide into the through hole, and the edge compresses the inclined plane and narrows the slot, so as to pass the top portion through the through hole, and after passing through the through hole, a bottom surface of the top portion rejects to an inner surface of the side wall and the spool portion fixedly positions in the through hole, so as to engage the handle structure with the housing.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic engaging device is mounted on the housing and the engaging component is mounted on the handle structure.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the handle structure is received in the accommodating trough of the removable electronic device, the first position-limiting portion of the handle structure is located at a first position and the second position-limiting portion is located at a third position, and further, the first position-limiting portion passes through and engages with the first positioning hole, thereby limiting the handle structure in the accommodating trough.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein for pulling the handle structure out of the accommodating trough of the removable electronic device, at first, the handle structure is rotated by taking the elastic engaging device as an axle center, and during the rotation, the first position-limiting portion moves upwardly from the first position to the second position and separates from the first positioning hole, and the second position-limiting portion moves downwardly from the third position to a fourth position and passes through and engages with the second positioning hole on the bottom plane, so as to restrict the movement of the handle structure and fix the handle structure at an inclined state.

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a removable electronic device with handle structure suitable, comprising;

a housing, having an accommodating trough;

a handle structure;

an elastic engaging device; and

an engaging component, corresponding to the elastic engaging device, wherein the handle structure is rotated by taking the elastic engaging device as an axle center, and the handle structure is pivotally mounted on and received in the accommodating trough through an engagement between the elastic engaging device and the engaging component, and the handle structure further comprises a first position-limiting portion and a second position -limiting portion for respectively engaging with a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole formed on a bottom plane of the electronic apparatus, so as to limit the movement of the handle structure.

12. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the elastic engaging device is mounted on the handle structure and the engaging component is mounted on the housing.

13. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the elastic engaging device is a bulge.

14. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the engaging component is a trough hole corresponding to the bulge.

15. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the bulge further comprises a top portion, a spool portion and at least a slot, which penetrates through the top portion and the spool portion.

16. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein the top portion further comprises an upper surface and an inclined plane connected with the upper surface.

17. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the elastic engaging device is mounted on the housing and the engaging component is mounted on the handle structure.

18. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein when the handle structure is received in the accommodating trough of the removable electronic device, the first position-limiting portion of the handle structure is located at a first position and the second position-limiting portion is located at a third position, and further, the first position -limiting portion passes through and engages with the first positioning hole, thereby limiting the handle structure in the accommodating trough.