Housing of network device
AssigneeD-Link Corporation
InventorShu-Chu Fan
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Abstract
The present invention is to provide a network device having a parallelepiped housing comprising a plurality of slots on two opposite sides and two opposite edges at each of an underside and a top and a plurality of pads each fastened the slots to form a short distance between a supporting surface and the underside of the housing by the projected pad. Also, housings of the same type of network devices can be stacked or horizontally coupled together by fastening the pads in the slots to form a gap between two stacked housings by the coupled pads for dissipating heat of the housings therefrom.
Claims10
A structure of a network device comprising:
- a parallelepiped housing for enclosing the network device;
- a plurality of slots on two opposite sides and two opposite edges at each of an underside and a top of the housing;
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- a plurality of pads each fastened to one slot of the housing of the network device for projecting a portion thereof from a surface of the housing, the portion of the pad being fastened to one slot of a housing of an adjacent network device for maintaining a predetermined distance between two coupled housings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.