US 5,207,342 AGranted

Housing for electronic device

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsKiyoaki Tsuji, Hitoshi Saito

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Abstract

An electronic device such as an external floppy disk drive is accommodated in a housing which has lower and upper cabinets and a door flap. The lower cabinet has at least a pair of first engaging teeth attached to respective side walls thereof, and a pair of spaced lugs mounted on respective side edges of an end thereof. The upper cabinet has at least a pair of second engaging teeth attached to the side walls, respectively, and a pair of spaced side flaps mounted on respective side edges of an end thereof. The first and second cabinets are superposed on each other with the first engaging teeth slidingly engaging the second engaging teeth, respectively. A pair of bushings is inserted in registered holes defined in the lugs and the side flaps. A door flap is angularly movably supported on the first and second cabinets by the bushings.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A housing for accommodating a device therein, comprising:

a first cabinet having a pair of spaced side walls and a pair of spaced ends, at least a pair of first engaging teeth attached to the side walls, respectively, and a pair of spaced lugs mounted on respective side edges of said spaced ends thereof, said lugs having respective holes defined therein;
a second cabinet having a pair of spaced side and a pair of spaced ends walls at least a pair of second engaging teeth attached to the side walls, respectively, and a pair of spaced side flaps mounted on respective side edges of said spaced ends thereof, said side flaps having respective holes defined therein;
said first and second cabinets being superposed on each other with said first engaging teeth slidingly engaging said second engaging teeth, respectively, said holes in the lugs being held in registry with said holes in the side flaps, respectively;
a pair of bushings inserted in said holes in the lugs and said holes in the side flaps;
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a door flap angularly movably supported on said first and second cabinets by said bushings.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.