Case
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsKiyoyuki Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Shimizu
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Abstract
A case includes a guide portion to guide sliding of a shutter to open and close a discharge port of a case body, a main pathway at which an end of the shutter is located when the shutter is in a state to open the discharge port, and first and second branching pathways into which the end of the shutter can be selectively inserted when the shutter is in a state to close the discharge port. When a pin is fitted into the case body, the end of the shutter is inserted into the first branching pathway, and when the pin is not fitted, the end is inserted into the second branching pathway, so that it is apparent from the exterior that the distal end is inserted into the first or second branching pathway.
Claims17
A case comprising:
- a case body to house a plurality of components and including a discharge port to discharge housed components;
- a shutter to open and close the discharge port by sliding;
- and
- a guide portion in the case body to guide the sliding of the shutter;
- wherein
- the guide portion includes:
- a main path in which one end portion of the shutter is located when the shutter opens the discharge port;
- and
- a first branch path and a second branch path each branching from an end portion of the main path and to each of which the one end portion of the shutter is selectively insertable when the shutter closes the discharge port;
- a regulator is detachably attached to the case body such that the one end portion of the shutter is selectively inserted in either one of the first branch path and the second branch path;
- when the shutter slides to close the discharge port from a state in which the discharge port is open, while the regulator is attached to the case body, the one end portion of the shutter is inserted into the first branch path, and while the regulator is not attached to the case body, the one end portion of the shutter is inserted into the second branch path;
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- the one end portion of the shutter is visually recognizable from outside.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.