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US 8,210,489 B2Granted
Frame that supports a housing
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKenichi Takehara, Hideaki Sugata, Makoto Yoshioka, Koji Hanya, Koichi Sato, Tatsuya Sakiyama, Kenji Imai
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Abstract
There is provided a frame for holding an electronic device, the frame including an inner member that has a shape of continuous or discontinuous loop, and is made of hollow metal having a closed cross-section; and a plurality of corner reinforcing members that are made of metal and are fixed at positions that cover curved portions of the inner member.
Claims20
A frame for holding an electronic device, the frame comprising:
- a substantially elliptical shaped inner member that has a continuous or discontinuous loop, and is made of hollow metal having a closed cross-section;
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- a plurality of corner reinforcing members having a top plate and two side plates joined at right angles to the top plate and installed on four corners of the substantially elliptical shaped inner member, the plurality of corner reinforcing members being further provided outside of curved portions formed in the four corners of the substantially elliptical shaped inner member,
- wherein at most the top plate of the plurality of corner reinforcing members extend over to substantially cover the respective curved portions of the substantially elliptical shaped inner member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.