Storage medium accommodating apparatus, industrial computer, and method

A method for accommodating a storage medium (15) into a storage medium accommodating apparatus (35) of an industrial computer (1), comprising the following steps:

• accommodating (S1) the storage medium (15) into a support unit (33, 34) of the storage medium accommodating apparatus (35);
• pushing (S2) the support unit (33, 34) together with the storage medium (15) into an accommodating unit (16) of the storage medium accommodating apparatus (35), wherein a guide rail (44) of the support unit (33, 34) is guided on a guide groove (27, 28) of a side wall (20) of the accommodating unit (16);
• and
• once the support unit (33, 34) is in a state of being pushed into the accommodating unit (16), automatically engaging (S3) a counter-engagement section (47) which is elastically deformable of the support unit (33, 34) into an engagement section (29) of the guide groove (27, 28) in a shape-fitting manner;
• wherein the counter-engagement section comprises an unlocking element configured to disengage the counter engagement section from the engagement section;
• wherein a front wall of the support unit comprises a gap;
• wherein:
• to unlock (S4) the counter-engagement section (47) and the engagement section (29), a covering part (58) of the storage medium accommodating apparatus (35) is pressed toward the unlocking element of the counter-engagement section (47) by passing through the gap of the front wall, so as to disengage the counter-engagement section from the engagement section (29), and the support unit (33, 34) is withdrawn from the accommodating unit (16) by means of the covering part (58).