Unit housing structure in electronic device
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorMasayuki Negishi
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Abstract
A unit housing structure for detachably housing a unit mounted with electronic parts in a unit mounting portion of an electronic device in which a guide rail having a guide slot whose opposite wall surfaces are slopes gradually opening outwardly is provided on the side of said unit mounting portion or said unit and a guided portion to be slidably engaged with the guide slot of said guide rail is provided on the side of said unit mounting portion or said unit, whereby movement of said unit is guided by the engagement between said guided portion and the guide slot at the time of insertion/extraction of said unit into/from said unit mounting portion.
Claims15
A unit housing structure, comprising:
- an electronic device having a unit mounting portion;
- a fan unit detachably mounted to said unit mounting portion;
- a guide rail having a guide slot extending along a length of said guide rail, said guide slot having outwardly sloped opposing wall surfaces along the length of said guide rail which gradually slant away from one another beginning at a bottom surface of said guide slot, said guide rail being mounted on a side of said unit mounting portion or a side of said fan unit via an extending raised portion fixed to one of the outwardly sloped opposing wall surfaces, said raised portion extending from one of the fan unit and unit mounting portion;
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- a guided portion slidably engageable with the guide slot of said guide rail, said guided portion being mounted on the side of said unit mounting portion or the side of said fan unit;
- wherein when said fan unit is either inserted into or extracted from said unit mounting portion, movement of said fan unit is guided by engagement between said guided portion and the guide slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.