JP2002319779A - Retaining metal fixture for electronic apparatus accommodating box - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable retaining an electronic apparatus with an electronic apparatus accommodating box irrespective of depth of the electronic apparatus, without applying special work to the electronic apparatus side. SOLUTION: This retaining metal fixture for an electronic apparatus accommodating box is used for an electronic apparatus accommodating box. The box is provided with a rectangular box-shaped cabinet in which an aperture is formed on one surface, a lid body which caps the aperture of the cabinet so as to be freely opened and closed, and retaining members which are disposed upright at four corners of the cabinet in order to retain an apparatus retaining metal fixture of an electronic component in which the apparatus retaining metal fixture is attached along the side. In at least one side retaining members out of an aperture side and a depth side of the cabinet, facing surfaces which face with each other are made attaching surfaces for attaching the apparatus retaining metal fixture. The retaining metal fixture for an electronic apparatus accommodating box is provided with an adjustment attaching segment 2 in which attaching parts 2a to be attached on the attaching surfaces of the one side retaining members are arranged along the depthwise direction of the cabinet, and a fixed attaching segment 1 to be attached on the other end side of the apparatus retaining metal fixture whose one end side is retained with the other side retaining members.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a support bracket for an electronic device storage box for supporting an electronic device such as a server in the electronic device storage box.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the development of IT technology, information center buildings have been constructed in various places, and many of these information center buildings are provided with servers, which are electronic devices for controlling distribution of electronic information. Because these servers are expensive, precise, and store a huge amount of valuable electronic data, they are stored in an electronic device storage box equipped with a lockable door so that they can not be handled by a third party. You.

This electronic equipment storage box 100 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7, a rectangular box-shaped housing 101 having an opening 101a on one surface, a lid 102 for opening and closing the opening of the housing, and four corners of the housing 101 for supporting electronic devices The support member 103 is provided upright. As shown in FIG. 8, the support member 103 supports four corners of the support plate 104, and an electronic device such as a server is placed on the supported support plate 104.

Recently, a support plate 104 is supported by a support member 103 of an electronic device storage box 100, and electronic devices such as a server are mounted on the support plate 104 through a support bracket. Electronic device supporting member 1
In many cases, a so-called mount rack system, which is supported by a mount 03, is adopted.

[0005]

When an electronic device such as a server is supported via a support bracket by the above-described mount rack system, it is not necessary to provide a support plate. The storage space can be increased.

However, in the mount rack system,
Electronic devices such as servers have various sizes, and when the depth dimension does not match the dimension between the support members 103 in front and behind the electronic device storage box 100,
There was a problem that it became impossible to attach to the support member 103.

As a mechanism for mounting system equipment (electronic equipment) to a storage rack (electronic equipment storage box), there is one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 7-22592. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9, the tip of a screw 202 protrudes from the side of the system device 201, and a support piece 203 to be attached to the side of the system device 201 has a front-rear direction of the system device 201. Along with the slit hole 203a,
Through holes 203b are provided on the upper and lower sides, and the tips of the screws 202 pass through the slit holes 203a and are screwed into the nuts 204.

In this embodiment, the support piece 203 can be attached to the system device 201 with the slit 203a of the support piece 203 being adjusted in the front-rear direction. When the system device 201 is stored in the storage rack 205 by being attached to the storage rack 205 through the
Can be easily stored in the storage rack 205 while being shifted in the front-rear direction.

However, in this case, since the screw 202 needs to be protruded from the side of the system device 201, another problem that processing is troublesome occurs.

[0010] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to be able to support an electronic device in an electronic device storage box irrespective of its depth direction. An object of the present invention is to provide a support fitting for an electronic device storage box, which can save the electronic device side without special processing.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic device storage box support bracket having a rectangular box-like housing provided with an opening on one side, and an opening of the housing. And a support member erected at each of the four corners of the housing to support an electronic device in which the device support bracket is mounted along the side, and an opening side of the housing. Alternatively, at least one of the support members on the back side is an electronic device storage box support bracket used in an electronic device storage box having opposing surfaces facing each other as a mounting surface for mounting the device support bracket. An adjustment attachment piece provided with an attachment portion attached to the attachment surface of the member along the depth direction of the housing, and a fixed attachment piece attached to the other end of a device support bracket having one end supported by the other support member. , The configuration having To have.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the support fitting for an electronic device storage box according to the first aspect, wherein the mounting portion is provided with a mounting screw for mounting the device support bracket on the mounting surface. The position is an elongated hole whose position can be adjusted along the depth direction.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the support fitting for an electronic device storage box according to any one of the first and second aspects, wherein the mounting screw is provided near the elongated hole. The structure is provided with a mark indicating the insertion point.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5. FIG. This electronic device storage box support bracket 10
Is used to support a device support fitting 40 which is used in an electronic device storage box 30 for storing the electronic device 20 such as a server and is mounted along the side of the electronic device 20 in a so-called Manu Truck system. is there.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the electronic device storage box 30 has a rectangular box-shaped housing 31 provided with an opening 31a on one surface, and a lid for opening and closing the opening 31a of the housing 31. 32, a support member 33 is provided upright at the four corners of the housing 31 to support the electronic device 20. The support member 33 has a large number of mounting holes 33a in its standing direction.
Is provided.

Of the support members 33, a rear support member 33A located at the back of the housing 31 is provided with a side mounting surface 33b for mounting the device support bracket 40, which faces each other.
The side mounting surface 33b is provided with the mounting hole 33a described above. Also, the opening 31a of the housing 31
The front support member 33B located in the vicinity has a facing surface facing the lid 32 as a front mounting surface 33c for mounting the device support bracket 40, and the front mounting surface 33c has
The mounting hole 33a described above is provided.

On the other hand, the electronic device 20 supported by the support member 33 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. When the electronic device 20 is supported by the electronic device storage box 30 in a mount rack system, generally, a pair of electronic devices 20 are provided along the sides thereof. Is mounted. The device support bracket 40 is provided with leg pieces 40 a at both ends in the width direction, is formed in a substantially U-shaped cross section, and has an opening 3 of the housing 31 of the electronic device storage box 30.
As shown in FIG. 2, mounting flanges 40b that are substantially parallel to the opening 31a of the housing 31 are provided at both ends in the longitudinal direction that are located on the 1a side or the back side. The device supporting bracket 40 is attached to the electronic device 2 by its leg 40a.
The electronic device 20 is attached along the side of the electronic device 20 so as to sandwich the electronic device 0 from above and below.

Next, the support fitting 1 for the electronic device storage box
Each part of 0 will be described. The electronic device storage box support bracket 10 has a fixed mounting piece 1 and an adjusting mounting piece 2,
It is formed in a substantially L-shape.

The fixed mounting piece 1 has a narrow rectangular shape,
A plurality of insertion holes 1a through which the mounting screws 50 shown in FIG. 1 are inserted are provided along the longitudinal direction with a rectangular opening shape for screwing to the mounting flange 40b on the other end side of the device supporting bracket 40. ing.

The adjusting mounting piece 2 has a substantially square shape, and has mounting screws 50 which are screwed along the outer edges on both sides thereof so as to be mounted on the side mounting surface 33b of the rear support member 33A.
Is provided with an elongated hole (attachment portion) 2a which can be inserted at an appropriate position along the longitudinal direction. In addition, a triangular mark is provided on the outer surface of the adjustment mounting piece 2 in the vicinity of the elongated hole 2a in order to indicate a place where the mounting screw 50 is inserted according to the size in the depth direction of the frequently used electronic device 20. 2b is provided.

Next, the electronic device 20
The state in which the device support fitting 40 attached to the electronic device storage box 30 is attached to the support member 33 of the electronic device storage box 30 will be described.

The mounting screw 50 is inserted into the through hole 1a of the fixed mounting piece 1, and the fixed mounting piece 1 is mounted on the mounting flange 40b of the equipment supporting bracket 40 with the mounting screw 50. The mounting screw 50 is also provided in the long hole 2a.
Is inserted, and the adjusting mounting piece 2 is attached to the rear supporting member 33A along the depth direction of the housing 31 with the mounting screw 50.
By attaching the electronic device 20 to the support member 32 of the electronic device storage box 30 by attaching the electronic device 20 to the support member 32 of the electronic device storage box 30, the electronic device 20 is eventually attached to the electronic device storage box 30. Can be attached to the supporting member 32 and stored.

At this time, by adjusting the insertion position of the mounting screw 50 in the elongated hole 2a of the adjustment mounting piece 2, the mounting position of the rear support member 33 and the adjustment mounting piece 2 can be changed.
1 can be adjusted along the depth direction.

In the support fitting for an electronic device storage box, the adjustment mounting piece 2 extends along the depth direction of the housing 31.
Is attached to the side attachment surface 33b of the rear support member 33 by the elongated hole 2a provided in the rear portion. By adjusting the insertion position of the attachment screw 50 in the elongated hole 2a along the depth direction of the housing 31, The mounting position of the rear support member 33 and the adjustment mounting piece 2 can be adjusted along the depth direction of the housing 31. Therefore, the device support bracket 40
The position of the fixed mounting piece 1 attached to the other end of the housing 31 can also be adjusted along the depth direction of the housing 31.
The electronic device 20 can be supported by the support member 33 of the electronic device storage box 30 regardless of the depth direction.

Further, since the mark 2b is provided near the slot 2a in accordance with the insertion position of the mounting screw 50 which matches the size of the frequently used electronic device 20 in the depth direction,
Since the mounting screw 50 can be inserted according to the mark, the operation of inserting the mounting screw 50 becomes easier.

Further, since it is not necessary to project the mounting screw from the side of the electronic device 20, special processing is not required on the electronic device 20 side.

The support fitting for the electronic device storage box according to the present embodiment is attached to the rear support member 33A along the depth direction of the housing 31, and the rear support member 33A.
A is used to adjust the mounting position between the mounting member A and the adjustment mounting piece 2 along the depth direction of the casing 31. For example, the front mounting member 33B is attached to the front supporting member 33B, When a mounting surface parallel to the surface 33b is provided and the rear supporting member 33 is provided with a mounting surface parallel to the front mounting surface 33c of the front supporting member 33, adjustment with the front supporting member 33 is performed. It may be used to adjust the attachment position with the attachment piece 2 along the depth direction of the housing 31.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the support fitting for the electronic device storage box of the present embodiment is used with the fixed mounting piece 1 positioned at the back side.
When the fixed mounting piece 1 is attached to the device supporting bracket 40 adapted to the electronic device 20 having a short dimension along the depth direction, the fixed mounting piece 1 may be used such that the fixed mounting piece 1 is located on the back side.

[0029]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the support fitting for the electronic device storage box is attached to the attachment surface of one of the support members by the attachment portion provided on the adjustment attachment piece along the depth direction of the housing. By selecting and adjusting the mounting point with the mounting surface from the mounting part along the depth direction of the housing,
The mounting position of one support member and the adjustment mounting piece can be adjusted along the depth direction of the housing. Therefore, the position of the fixed attachment piece attached to the other end of the device support bracket can also be adjusted along the depth direction of the housing, so that the electronic device can be placed in the electronic device storage box regardless of the depth direction. It can be supported by a support member. In addition, the electronic device can be processed without special processing.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the mounting position of one of the support members and the adjustment mounting piece is adjusted by adjusting the insertion position of the mounting screw along the longitudinal direction of the long hole. 2. The effect of the support fitting for an electronic device storage box according to claim 1, which can be adjusted along the depth direction of the housing and can be supported by the electronic device storage box regardless of the depth direction. it can.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the second aspect of the present invention, the mounting bracket for the electronic device storage box is mounted in accordance with the size of the frequently used electronic device in the depth direction. If a mark is provided in the vicinity of the elongated hole in accordance with the insertion position of the screw, the mounting screw can be inserted in accordance with the mark, so that the operation of inserting the mounting screw becomes easier.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a plan sectional view showing a state in which a device supporting bracket of the electronic device is attached to a supporting member by the above.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an electronic device storage box in which the above device is used.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which a lid of the electronic device storage box shown in FIG. 3 is opened.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view in which a part of a housing and a lid are omitted to show a support member of the electronic device storage box shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state where a lid of the electronic device storage box is opened.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view in which a part of a housing and a lid are omitted to show a support member of the electronic device storage box shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a plan sectional view showing a state in which a support plate is supported by a support member of the electronic device storage box.

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of a system device mounting mechanism disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 7-22592.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Fixed attachment piece 2 Adjustment attachment piece 2a Attachment part (long hole) 2b Mark 10 Support metal fittings for electronic device storage box 20 Electronic device 30 Electronic device storage box 31 Housing 31a Opening 32 Lid 33A Rear (one) support member 33b Side mounting surface 33B Front (other) support member 40 Device support bracket 50 Mounting screw

Claims (3)

[Claims] A rectangular box-shaped housing having an opening on one side;
A cover body for opening and closing the opening of the housing, and supporting members erected at four corners of the housing to support an electronic device having device supporting brackets attached along the side thereof; At least one of the support members on the opening side or the back side of the body is a support fitting for an electronic device storage box used in an electronic device storage box having opposing surfaces facing each other as a mounting surface for mounting the device support bracket. The mounting portion attached to the mounting surface of one of the support members is provided along an adjustment mounting piece provided along the depth direction of the housing, and the other support member is mounted on the other end side of the device support bracket one end of which is supported by the other support member. And a fixing mounting piece. 2. The support for an electronic device storage box according to claim 1, wherein the mounting portion is a long hole that allows an insertion position of a mounting screw for mounting the device support bracket to the mounting surface to be adjusted along the depth direction. Metal fittings. 3. The support bracket for an electronic device storage box according to claim 2, wherein a mark indicating a place where the mounting screw is inserted is provided near the elongated hole.