JP2002176270A - Stand for electronic unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stand for electronic unit which temporarily stores a disk-like medium at the time of exchanging the disk-like medium. SOLUTION: The stand for electronic unit 10 has a base part 11 holding the base of the electronic unit so that the electronic unit 20 having a flat and rectangular solid-like outer form is kept from both sides in a vertical position and holding parts 12 and 13 which rise upward from both sides of the base part and sandwich the both side faces of the electronic unit. The stand for electronic unit 10 has a groove 13 for storing at least one disk-like medium opened upward in the holding part 12 of at least one side.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device stand for holding an electronic device having a flat rectangular parallelepiped outer diameter in a vertical position.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a personal computer peripheral device such as a CD-ROM drive device, a CD-R drive device, and a magneto-optical disk drive device, a so-called peripheral device connected to a personal computer body by using a connection cable. External peripherals are widely used. Such an external peripheral device has a flat rectangular parallelepiped outer shape, and is usually placed on a surface of a personal computer desk or a personal computer rack in a so-called horizontal state so that a large surface is placed up and down. It is mounted on the device and used.

On the other hand, in order to make effective use of the surface of a personal computer desk or personal computer rack, there are cases where it is desired to use these external peripheral devices vertically. Conventionally, for such a vertical installation, a stand for an electronic device for the vertical installation has been widely used as an accessory of a peripheral device or as an optional accessory for a personal computer peripheral device.

[0004] Such an electronic device stand has a base portion for holding the bottom surface of the peripheral device so as to hold the peripheral device having a flat rectangular parallelepiped outer shape from both sides in a vertical position.
And a holding portion that rises upward from both sides of the base portion and sandwiches both side surfaces of the peripheral device. According to such an electronic device stand, by inserting the peripheral device between the two holding portions and mounting the peripheral device on the base portion, the peripheral device is sandwiched by the holding portions on both sides, and is placed vertically. It can be stably held in a state.

[0005]

However, such a stand for an electronic device only has a function of simply holding the peripheral device in a vertical position.
On the other hand, for example, when peripheral devices are used vertically, there is almost no space on the surface of a personal computer desk or a personal computer rack.
In the case of an M drive device, a CD-R drive device, a magneto-optical disk drive device, or the like, when replacing a disk medium with these drive devices, a space for temporarily storing the disk medium taken out of the drive device is required. Can not secure. Therefore, when replacing a disk-shaped medium, the user needs to load a new disk-shaped medium into the drive with the other hand while holding the disk-shaped medium taken out of the drive device with one hand. There was a problem that it was bothersome.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a stand for an electronic device which can temporarily accommodate a disk-shaped medium when the disk-shaped medium is replaced.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a base for holding a bottom surface of an electronic device so as to hold an electronic device having a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape from both sides in a vertical position. A holding portion that rises upward from both sides of the base portion and sandwiches both side surfaces of the electronic device.In the electronic device stand, at least one holding portion has at least one opening that opens upward. The present invention is achieved by an electronic device stand, which is provided with a groove for accommodating a disk-shaped medium.

[0008] In the electronic device stand according to the present invention, preferably, the groove has a concavely curved side surface facing the surface of the disk-shaped medium.

In the electronic device stand according to the present invention, preferably, the concave side surface of the groove is formed in a spherical shape.

According to the above configuration, between the two holding portions,
By inserting the electronic device and placing it on the base part,
The electronic device has both sides sandwiched by the holding portions, and can be stably held in the vertical position, and at least one holding portion is provided with a groove for accommodating the disk-shaped medium, In a case where the electronic device or another electronic device arranged adjacently is a drive device for a disk-shaped medium, when the disk-shaped medium is replaced with the drive device, the disk-shaped medium removed from the drive device is temporarily inserted into the groove. By accommodating the disk-shaped medium, the user can load the disk-shaped medium with both hands when loading a new disk-shaped medium into the drive device, so that the handling of the disk-shaped medium is facilitated.

[0011] When the side of the groove facing the surface of the disk-shaped medium is curved concavely, preferably, when the concave side of the groove is formed spherically,
When the disc-shaped medium is accommodated in the groove, the outer periphery of the disc-shaped medium is in contact with the entire bottom surface of the groove, and is supported from both sides near the bottom, and both sides of the groove near the center are disc-shaped media. Is largely separated from the surface of the disk-shaped medium, so that when the disk-shaped medium is inserted into the groove, the surface of the disk-shaped medium (that is, the signal recording surface) does not come into contact with the periphery of the opening of the groove to be damaged.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of an electronic device stand according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, an electronic device stand 10 includes a base portion 11 that holds a bottom surface in a vertical position of an electronic device having a flat rectangular parallelepiped outer shape, and rises upward from both sides of the base portion 11 to form an electronic device stand. Holding portions 12 and 13 for sandwiching both side surfaces, and a holding portion 12 on one side is provided with a groove portion 14 opening upward.

The base portion 11 has a flat upper surface and a width slightly larger than the width of the electronic device to be held in the vertical position. The holding parts 12, 13
As shown in FIG. 2, the inner surfaces facing each other are formed so as to slightly widen upward as shown in FIG. 2 in order to facilitate insertion of the electronic device. The base portion 11 and the holding portions 12 and 13 are configured by being integrally formed of, for example, plastic or the like.

The above configuration is the same as that of the conventional stand for electronic equipment. However, the stand for electronic equipment according to the present invention further includes a groove 14 in the holding part 12 on one side. As shown in FIG.
a is formed in a downwardly convex arc shape, and the width of the bottom surface 14a is selected to be substantially the same as the thickness of the disk-shaped medium to be accommodated. Further, the groove 14
As is clear from FIGS. 1 and 2, the width increases from the arc-shaped bottom surface 14 a toward the center, that is, both side surfaces 14 b and 14 c of the groove portion 14 are concave, preferably spherical. It is formed to be curved.

The electronic device stand 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention is configured as described above. When holding an electronic device, for example, a CD-R drive device, as shown in FIG. Two holding parts 12, 1
3, the flat rectangular parallelepiped outer shape of the CD-R drive device 20 is inserted in a vertical position, and placed on the base portion 11. As a result, the CD-R drive device 20 has two holding portions 12, 1 of the electronic device stand 10 on both sides.
3 and is stably held in a vertically installed state.

When the CD-R 21 as a disc-shaped medium is to be replaced in the CD-R drive 20, the CD-R 21 loaded in the CD-R drive 20 is first taken out. The electronic device stand 10 is inserted into a groove 14 provided in the holding portion 12 of the electronic device stand 10.
Thereby, the outer peripheral edge of the CD-R 21 abuts along the bottom surface 14 a of the groove 14 in the groove 14, and
By being sandwiched between both side surfaces 14b and 14c of the groove 14, the groove 14 is held in a stable state. Further, in this case, both side surfaces 14b of the groove portion 14,
Since 14c is formed to be concavely curved, the CD
When the -R21 is inserted into the groove 14, the periphery of the opening of the groove 14 does not come into contact with the surface of the CD-R21 to be damaged.

Thereafter, a new CD-R 21 is loaded into the CD-R drive device 20. At this time, the CD-R 21 removed from the CD-R drive device 20 is temporarily
4, the new CD-R21 CD
At the time of loading into the -R drive device 20, the user can load a new CD-R 21 into the CD-R drive device 20 using both hands. Therefore, even if there is no space around the personal computer desk or personal computer rack where the CD-R drive device 20 is arranged, the CD-R2
1 is replaced, a new CD-R 21 is inserted into the CD-R drive device 20 while holding the removed CD-R 21.
Since there is no need to load the CD-R21, the handling of the CD-R 21 can be performed reliably and easily.

In the above embodiment, the radius of curvature of the bottom surface 14a of the groove 14 provided in the electronic device stand 10 is selected according to the size (outer diameter) of the CD-R 21 in order to accommodate the CD-R 21. However, other disc-shaped media, such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, etc., can be similarly accommodated. Further, the groove 14
May store another disk-shaped medium, for example, a medium stored in a case such as a floppy (registered trademark) or a magneto-optical disk. In this case, dimensions are selected corresponding to these media.

In the above-described embodiment, the electronic device stand 10 has one groove 14 only on one side of the holding portion 12, but has one groove 14 on both sides of the holding portions 12, 13. And one or more holding portions 12 or 13 may have two or more groove portions 14 respectively.
Obviously, it may be possible to provide Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the electronic device stand 10 holds the CD-R drive device 20 in the vertical position as the electronic device has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a similar flat rectangular parallelepiped outer shape is used. CD-ROM with
It is obvious that other personal computer peripheral devices such as a drive device, a CD-RW drive device, a magneto-optical disk drive device, and other electronic devices may be held.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, by inserting the electronic device between the two holding portions and placing it on the base portion, the electronic device has both sides. It can be stably held in a vertically placed state, and at least one holding portion is provided with a groove for accommodating a disk-shaped medium, so that the electronic device or the adjacent device is particularly arranged. In the case where the other electronic device is a disk-shaped medium drive device, when the disk-shaped medium is replaced in the drive device, the disk-shaped medium taken out of the drive device is temporarily housed in the groove, so that a new one is obtained. When loading the disk-shaped medium into the drive device, the user can load the disk-shaped medium with both hands, so that the handling of the disk-shaped medium is facilitated.

Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an extremely excellent stand for an electronic device which can temporarily store a disk-shaped medium when the disk-shaped medium is replaced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the configuration of an embodiment of an electronic device stand according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the electronic device stand of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a left side view showing the electronic device stand of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the electronic device stand of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a use state of the electronic device stand of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Stand for electronic devices 11 Base part 12, 13 Holding part 14 Groove part 14a Bottom surface 14b, 14c Side surface 20 CD-R drive device 21 CD-R

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A base portion for holding a bottom surface of an electronic device so as to hold an electronic device having a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape from both sides in a vertical position, and an electronic device rising upward from both sides of the base portion. And a holding portion for sandwiching both side surfaces of the electronic device stand, wherein at least one holding portion is provided with a groove for accommodating at least one disk-shaped medium opened upward. A stand for an electronic device, characterized in that: 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the side surface of the groove facing the surface of the disk-shaped medium is concavely curved.
The electronic device stand according to claim 1. 3. The electronic device stand according to claim 2, wherein the concave side surface of the groove is formed in a spherical shape.