US 7,000,842 B2 · Card-like electronic appliance holder and card-like electronic appliance support apparatus

Abstract

The present invention holds a card-like electronic appliance, such as a semiconductor storage medium or an expansion module, and makes it difficult for dust, dirt and moisture to adhere to the card-like electronic appliance. The invention also makes it possible for card-like electronic appliances to be easily and appropriately held, stored, and organized, even when there are a large number of card-like electronic appliances. The card-like electronic appliance holder includes a holder main body with an appliance insertion hole into which at least part of a card-like electronic appliance is inserted, and is provided with a support part with a through-hole for hanging the holder main body. A convex part for engaging a concave part provided in the card-like electronic appliance and holding the card-like electronic appliance is provided inside the appliance insertion hole. Since card-like electronic appliances are held in this way, it becomes difficult for the card-like electronic appliances to become lost when kept separately, and dust, dirt, moisture, etc. can be kept from adhering to the card-like electronic appliance.

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Dependent claims

A card-like electronic appliance holder, comprising:

a holder main body having an appliance insertion hole adapted to receive at least part of a card-like electronic appliance when the card-like electronic appliance is in an assembled position therein, the appliance insertion hole having an upper surface, a lower surface, a pair of side surfaces and an opening providing access to the appliance insertion hole;
the holder main body including a rib part disposed adjacent to the opening of the appliance insertion hole so that the rib part frictionally engages a surface of the card-like electronic appliance when the card-like electronic appliance is in the assembled position to thereby hold the card-like electronic appliance in the assembled position, the rib part being formed on the upper surface and the lower surface continuously from one of the pair of side surfaces to the other of the pair of side surfaces, whereby the rib part closes a gap between the appliance insertion hole and the card-like electronic appliance when the card-like electronic appliance is inserted in the assembled position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Card-like electronic appliance holder and card-like electronic appliance support apparatus

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Card-like electronic appliance holder and card-like electronic appliance support apparatus

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