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US 8,074,580 B2Granted
Housing apparatus and housing rack
AssigneeThe Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ufj, Ltd.
InventorMotonari Chinuki
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AssigneeThe Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ufj, Ltd.
InventorMotonari Chinuki
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There is provided a housing apparatus in and out of which a keyboard and a mouse can be put and taken. The housing apparatus includes a keyboard housing section 11 that houses a keyboard in a vertical position, and a mouse housing section 18 on which a mouse can be placed, the mouse housing section 18 provided integrally with the keyboard housing section 11. The mouse housing section 18 allows mouses to be placed on both sides of the keyboard housing section 11. The keyboard housing section 11 is formed of a pair of supporting frames 12 that stand parallel to each other with a gap therebetween, and the mouse housing section 18 is formed of a flat plate 14 to which the lower ends of the supporting frames 12 are connected.
A housing apparatus comprising:
A housing rack comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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With substantially horizontally extensible or adjustable parts other than drawers, e.g. leaves: platforms for supporting office equipment
Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis: furniture aspects of radio, television,…
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is applied, for example, when panel display devices, such as liquid crystal monitors, are used to hold a TV conference, and relates to a housing apparatus and a housing rack in and out of which a keyboard and a mouse can be put and taken.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the housing apparatus according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a right side view of FIG. 1;
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
The housing apparatus 10 and the housing rack 1 shown in the present embodiment are applied to various TV conference systems using networks, for example. When panel display devices, such as liquid crystal monitors, are used to hold a TV conference between locations remote from each other with a large number of attendees on both sides, the housing apparatus 10 is attached for use, for example, to the housing rack 1 that houses a personal computer body 22 and the like.
The housing rack 1 includes a rack body 2 having a substantially triangular shape when viewed from above, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. The rack body 2 includes a plurality of (four in the present embodiment) shelf plates 3 of the same size, each having a triangular shape when viewed from above, the shelf plates 3 disposed parallel to each other with a gap in the vertical direction, and three columns 5 perpendicularly provided along the corresponding corners of the four shelf plates 3. As shown in FIG. 8, the housing apparatus 10 according to the present invention is provided at each corner of the third shelf plate 3, as defined from the bottom shelf plate 3 of the housing rack 1.