AC adapter mounting structure
AssigneeLite-On Enclosure Inc.
InventorsJames Huang, Tin Chang
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Abstract
An AC adapter mounting structure is constructed to include a housing holding a rack. The housing has two vertical pivot rods and two locating holes symmetrically disposed in top and bottom sides of a side opening thereof, and an AC adapter for positioning in the rack inside the housing. The AC adapter has two pivots respectively pivoted in the pivot holes, two short positioning rods for engaging the locating holes of the housing after the pivots are pivoted in the pivot holes and the AC adapter is turned to the inside of the housing, and two stop blocks, which are forced into engagement with respective retaining holes in the rack when the AC adapter is set into the inside of the housing.
Claims4
An AC adapter mounting structure comprising:
- an AC adapter, said AC adapter comprising a front panel fixedly fastened thereto with screws, a left panel, and a right panel, the front panel of said AC adapter having a locating slot and a positioning slot in two sides, two mounting flanges perpendicularly backwardly extending from top and bottom sides thereof, two pivots respectively located on said mounting flanges in the middle and vertically aligned in a line, and two short positioning rods respectively located on said mounting flanges, the left panel of said AC adapter having at least one stop block, the right panel of said AC adapter having a rear mounting lug, a front mounting lug, and a locating hole spaced above said front mounting, and the left panel of said AC adapter having at least one stop block;
- a housing adapted to receive said AC adapter, said housing comprising a back panel, a top panel, and a side panel, the back panel of said housing having an opening wherethrough said AC adapter is inserted into the inside of said housing, two vertically spaced pivot holes respectively coupled to the pivots of said AC adapter for enabling said AC adapter to be turned to the inside of said housing and set into position, and two vertically spaced locating holes adapted to receive the short positioning rods of said AC adapter after the pivots of said AC adapter have been pivoted to said pivot holes and said AC adapter is been turned to the inside of said housing, the top panel of said housing having a locating slot adapted to receive the rear mounting lug of the right panel of said AC adapter;
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- a rack fixedly fastened to the back panel of said housing and adapted to hold said AC adapter inside said housing, said rack having an upright sidewall and a horizontal bottom wall, the bottom wall of said rack having a downward flange at an outer side thereof and a locating slot formed in said downward flange and adapted to receive the front mounting lug of the right panel of said AC adapter, said upright sidewall having at least one retaining hole adapted to receive the at least one stop block of the left panel of said AC adapter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.