Foldable Frame And A Computer Housing Including The Foldable Frame
AssigneeAopen Inc.
InventorsSheng-Hsiung Cheng, Te-An Lin, Wu-Nan Wang, Chia-Chia Huang
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Abstract
A computer housing includes a foldable frame and a face panel. The frame is disposed for mounting a motherboard, an optical disk drive, and a power supply, and includes two first housing panels and two second housing panels that are connected pivotally and surroundingly as a whole. The frame is foldable into a folded state, where the first and second housing panels are turned pivotally to be proximate to each other so as to reduce the size of the frame, as well as the space and material required for packaging the frame, thereby saving costs of transport and packaging material.
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1-21. (canceled)
A foldable frame for a computer housing, comprising:
- two parallel first housing panels;
- and
- two parallel second housing panels, each of said second housing panels having two ends connected pivotally and respectively to said first housing panels such that said second housing panels and said first housing panels are spaced apart from each other and are interconnected surroundingly;
- said frame being pivotable and convertible between an assembled state, where said first housing panels and said second housing panels form a rectangular frame, and a folded state, where one of said first housing panels is turned pivotally to be proximate to one of said second housing panels, while the other of said first housing panels is turned pivotally to be proximate to the other of said second housing panels;
- wherein said first housing panels are spaced apart in a front-and-rear relationship to define front and rear sides of said frame, and said second housing panels are spaced apart in a left-and-right relationship to define left and right sides of said frame, said second housing panels having front and rear panel ends connected pivotally and respectively to left and right panel ends of said first housing panels to thereby form said rectangular frame;
- said foldable frame further comprising a disk drive support frame including a supporting plate and a pivot connection plate, said pivot connection plate being connected pivotally between an inner panel surface of one of said second housing panels and said supporting plate such that said supporting plate is movable relative to said one of said second housing panels so as to be proximate thereto or to be spacedly parallel thereto.
A computer housing comprising:
- a frame including
- two parallel first housing panels, and
- two parallel second housing panels, each of said second housing panels having two ends connected pivotally and respectively to said first housing panels such that said second housing panels and said first housing panels are spaced apart from each other and are interconnected surroundingly,
- said frame being pivotable and convertible between an assembled state, where said first housing panels and said second housing panels form a rectangular frame, and a folded state, where one of said first housing panels is turned pivotally to be proximate to one of said second housing panels, while the other of said first housing panels is turned pivotally to be proximate to the other of said second housing panels;
- a face panel disposed at a front side of said frame;
- and
- two side panels that are disposed on two lateral sides of said frame when said frame is in the assembled state;
- said computer housing further comprising a disk drive support frame including a supporting plate and a pivot connection plate, said pivot connection plate being connected pivotally between an inner panel surface of one of said second housing panels and said supporting plate such that said supporting plate is movable relative to said one of said second housing panels so as to be proximate thereto or to be spacedly parallel thereto.
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