US 8,014,667 B2Granted

Imaging device

AssigneePanasonic Corporation

InventorJun Saiki

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Abstract

An imaging device is provided, in which a front sheet metal casing and/or a back sheet metal casing can be secured to a top sheet metal casing without the necessity of providing any screw holes in the top surface of the top sheet metal casing in order to secure the top sheet metal casing to the front sheet metal casing and/or the back sheet metal casing. The top sheet metal casing includes a top plate and a secured sheet metal casing secured to the top plate such that at least a portion of its perimeter is spaced apart from the top plate at a predetermined distance. A flange provided to the front or back sheet metal casing is inserted between the top plate and the secured sheet metal plate, so that an engagement pin provided to the secured sheet metal plate is fitted in an engagement hole provided in the flange, thereby securing the front or back sheet metal casing to the top sheet metal casing.

Claims3

Dependent claims

An imaging device comprising exterior members including a top sheet metal casing secured to a front sheet metal casing or a back sheet metal casing, wherein,

the top sheet metal casing has a multi-layered structure including a top plate, and a catch plate secured to the top plate such that at least a portion of its perimeter is spaced apart from the top plate at a predetermined distance,
the front sheet metal casing or the back sheet metal casing has an insertion portion disposed between the top plate and the catch plate that are spaced apart at said predetermined distance, and
in a completely assembled state of the top sheet metal casing with the front sheet metal casing or the back sheet metal casing, the insertion portion is disposed between the top plate and the catch plate with the catch plate being deformed so as to enlarge said predetermined distance, the catch plate is biased toward the top plate and pressed upon the insertion portion, and the insertion portion is secured to the catch plate.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/175,260Filed 17 Jul 2008
Priority: JP 2007-18900720 Jul 2007
Published: US 2009/0023008 A122 Jan 2009
Granted: 6 Sep 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G03B 21/00
Projectors or projection-type viewers
Y10T 428/12347
All metal or with adjacent metals: plural layers discontinuously bonded [e.g., spot-weld, mechanical fastener, etc.]
G03B
Apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them
Y10T
Technical subjects covered by former us classification