JP2005256305A - Sliding type cage - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sliding type cage which can enhance the workability of installation/wiring/adjustment etc. of instruments and the like, and which can promote the efficiency of an installation space. <P>SOLUTION: Characteristically, this sliding type cage is a cage for enclosing a rack for housing electronic instruments and the like, such as a server and a power source; a door on the front or rear surface of the cage is composed of a plurality of moving panels 1; and the moving panel 1 is guided by an upper guide rail 2 so as to be housed in the side surface of the cage. The upper guide rail 2 is equipped with a long part 21 which has a length L2 greater in dimension than a width L1 of the cage, a short part 22 which is connected to the long part 21 and positioned along a side surface 11 of the cage, and a storage part 23 for moving the moving panel toward the side surface 11 from the short part 22. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a cage that encloses a rack that houses electronic devices such as communication-related devices and computer-related devices, and more particularly to a cage having a sliding door.

  In a telecommunications carrier's office or data center that manages and manages a large number of servers, a dedicated server rack is used to efficiently install a large number of servers in a limited installation space. They are grouped together and sorted by cage.

  This cage is a partition that divides the installation space of the server into small rooms, and a plurality of server racks can be installed. The cage is made of a wire mesh in consideration of temperature control of electronic devices such as servers.

  Commonly used cage doors include a folding door type and a sliding door type (for example, Patent Document 1). Here, FIG. 6A shows a folding door cage, and FIG. 6B shows a sliding door cage.

  In the folding door cage, as shown in FIG. 6A, the door is composed of a plurality of panels 60, and a roller 61 is provided at one end of each panel 60 so that it can move along the guide rail 62. It has become. When the handle provided on the panel 60 is pulled, the panel 60 moves along the guide rail 62 so that the door is bent at the connecting portion between the panels. In other words, the cage door is opened by folding the panel 60 so as to protrude to the passage side. In the cage shown in FIG. 6 (A), it is divided into two small rooms by partitioning, and a server rack 63 is installed in each space, and the doors are the front (lower side of the figure) and the rear (see FIG. 6). Respectively).

In the sliding door type cage, as shown in FIG. 6B, the door is composed of a plurality of panels 64, and each panel 64 is provided with a roller (not shown), and upper and lower guide rails 65 (upper parts). The guide rail can be slid along (not shown). Therefore, the cage door can be partially opened by pulling the handle provided on the panel 64 at the location to be opened. As in FIG. 6A, the cage is divided into two small rooms by a partition, a server rack 63 is installed in each space, and the door is the front of the server rack 63 (the lower side of the figure) and Each is provided on the rear surface (upper side in the figure).
JP 2003-60367 A

In the case of the above-mentioned folding door type cage, as shown in FIG. 6A, the cage door is opened by folding the panel 60 so as to protrude to the passage side, and thus there is the following problem. .
(1) When the door is opened, the passage space that becomes a work space is narrowed.
(2) When installing the cage, the width of the panel 60 must be ensured in the front and rear, and the installation space cannot be used efficiently.
(3) When there are obstacles such as other cages or walls in the passage space, the panel 60 collides with the obstacles and the door cannot be completely opened.
(4) If the door cannot be opened completely, it will hinder the storage of equipment in the server rack 63 in the cage, the wiring of the equipment, and the adjustment of the equipment. Is bad.

Further, in the case of the sliding door type cage described above, as shown in FIG. 6B, even if the panel 64 of the part to be opened is moved, it is only stored and stacked on the adjacent panel 64. There was a problem.
(1) The front (or rear) of the entire cage cannot be opened, and the front (or rear) of the server rack in the cage may not be fully opened. The workability of is bad.
(2) Since the lower guide rail 65 cannot be removed, it becomes an obstacle to operations such as storage of equipment.

  The present invention has been developed to solve such problems. That is, an object of the present invention is to provide a sliding cage that can improve the workability of installation, wiring, adjustment and the like of equipment and can improve the efficiency of installation space.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a sliding enclosure for enclosing a rack for storing electronic devices, wherein the front or rear door of the cage is composed of a plurality of moving panels, and the moving panels are stored on the side surfaces of the cage. An expression cage is provided.

  In the sliding cage of the present invention, an upper guide rail that supports the moving panel and guides the movement is provided on the ceiling of the cage. The upper guide rail has a long part longer than the width of the front or rear surface of the cage, a short part connected to the long part along the side of the cage, and a movable panel moving from the short part toward the side of the cage. A housing portion. It is preferable that the short portion of the upper guide rail has a length that is half or less of the width of the cage side surface.

  It is preferable that the floor surface portion of the cage is provided with a lower guide rail for guiding the movement of the moving panel and is detachable. In addition, it is preferable that a movement panel is the width | variety of half or less of the width | variety of a cage side surface.

  Furthermore, in the above invention, a stopper for restricting the movement of the movable panel is provided at the center of the upper guide rail, and when the movable panel is opened and closed in the vicinity of the side surface of the cage, it is detached from the movement path of the movable panel and the movement is performed. It is preferable to provide locking means that protrudes on the moving path when the panel is closed, and to restrain the moving panel by being sandwiched between the stopper and the locking means when the door is closed.

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained by using a sliding door on the front or rear of the cage and storing the door (movable panel) on the side of the cage.
(1) The front or rear surface of the cage can be completely opened, the entire surface of the rack accommodated in the cage can be opened, and workability such as storage, wiring, and adjustment of equipment can be improved. .
(2) Even if the cage door is opened, the work space can be sufficiently secured without narrowing the passage space.
(3) Since the door does not protrude into the passage space when the door is opened, there is no restriction in the width direction of the passage space by opening the door, and the installation space can be used efficiently.
(4) Since the lower guide rail can be removed, there is no obstacle at the foot and workability such as storage of equipment can be improved.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a front view of a sliding cage according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a partial top view showing an outline of an upper guide rail.

  The sliding cage according to the present embodiment is a cage that encloses a rack that stores electronic devices such as servers and power supplies, and includes a movable panel 1 having a plurality of (10 in FIG. 1) doors on the front or rear of the cage. The movable panel 1 is housed on the side of the cage.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the cage ceiling portion includes an upper guide rail 2 that supports the movement panel 1 and guides the movement, and the cage floor surface portion includes a lower guide rail 3 that guides the movement of the movement panel 1. Prepare. The movable panel 1 is made of a metal frame such as iron with a wire mesh stretched, and its width is less than half the cage side surface 11 (see FIG. 2). The upper guide rail 2 has a length (L2) longer than the cage width (L1). The width of the difference L3 between L1 and L2 is a space for storing the movable panel 1.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the upper guide rail 2 includes a long portion 21 having a length L2 longer than the cage width L1, a short portion 22 connected to the long portion 21 along the cage side surface 11, and a short length. And an accommodating portion 23 for moving the movable panel from the portion 22 toward the cage side surface 11. The cage side surface 11 is formed of a panel having a structure similar to that of the movable panel 1 and is fixed to the cage column 12 with bolts or the like.

  The pillars 12 are installed at a pair of six locations at the four corners and the center of the cage. A partition 13 formed by a panel having a structure similar to that of the movable panel 1 is fixed to the central column 12 by bolts or the like, and the cage is divided into two small rooms. A server rack 14 is installed in each room. The number of server racks 14 to be installed can be changed depending on the size of the cage, but here, a set of four is assumed.

  The elongate part 21 is comprised by the linear rail, and is installed in both the cage front side and the rear side. A stopper 24 is provided at the center of the long portion 21 to stop the slide of the movable panel, thereby opening or closing the door (movable panel) for each small room divided by the partition 13. can do. The stopper 24 only needs to be capable of restricting the movement of the roller of the movable panel, and may be a metal fitting or a rubber protrusion, and is fixed to the rail with a bolt or the like.

  The short portion 22 is configured by a linear rail, is connected to a substantially end portion of the long portion 21 substantially perpendicularly, and is provided so as to be spanned between the cage front side and the rear side. A roller of a movable panel 1 described later is slidably inserted into the long portion 21 and the short portion 22 so that the movable panel 1 can slide in parallel with the panel surface. A stopper 25 similar to the stopper 24 of the long portion 21 is provided at an intermediate portion of the short portion 22 so that the movement of the movable panel 1 can be restricted.

  The short portion 22 does not necessarily need to be configured by one rail, and is configured by two rails having a length equal to or less than half the width of the cage side surface 11 divided into a cage front side and a rear side. Also good. Note that the short portion 22 is not necessarily a straight rail, and a curved rail may be used.

  The accommodating portion 23 is composed of two metal rails extending substantially vertically from the short portion 22 toward the cage side surface 11, one end is connected to the short portion 22, and the other end is fixed to the upper portion of the cage side surface 11. Has been. The distance between the two rails constituting the accommodating portion 23 is designed to be equal to the distance between the rollers of the movable panel 1 described later. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the accommodating portions 23 are provided at two locations on the front side and the rear side of the cage so that the movable panel 1 on the front side of the cage and the movable panel 1 on the rear side of the cage can be individually accommodated. It has become. In addition, the structure of the accommodating part 23 is not limited to this, You may make it connect the two rails of the accommodating part 23 to the elongate part 21 directly instead of the short part 22. FIG.

  Since the server rack 14 is equipped with electronic devices such as servers for each user, security management is performed so that only a predetermined user can contact the internal devices. In order to maintain the closed state of the movable panel 1, a lock 26 is provided on the side of the cage.

  The lock 26 is provided in the vicinity of the long portion 21 of the cage side surface 11 and is driven so as to be detached from the moving path (long portion 21) of the moving panel 1 when the moving panel 1 is opened and closed. When the movable panel 1 is closed, the movable panel 1 is driven so as to protrude into the moving path. Therefore, when the door is closed and locked by the lock 26, the entire plurality of movable panels 1 are collectively sandwiched and restrained by the stopper 24 and the lock 26. That is, one end of the door is restrained by the stopper 24 shown in FIG. 2 and the other end is restrained by the lock 26. As the lock 26, various types such as a padlock, a dial lock, a disk cylinder, a pin cylinder, an electronic key, a dimple key, a card key, and a mechanical button lock can be used.

  FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the front surface of the cage. In FIG. 3, the panel constituting the cage side surface 11 is not shown.

  In the figure, the movable panel 1 has upper rollers 31 at two positions on the upper end, and the upper rollers 31 are inserted into the upper guide rail 2. The upper roller 31 has a rotation shaft 31 a in the vertical direction of the movable panel 1 so that the upper roller 31 can rotate in the moving direction (horizontal direction) of the movable panel 1. The lower end surface of the upper roller 31 is in contact with the upper guide rail 2 to support the weight of the movable panel 1.

  Further, a lower roller 33 is provided at a lower end of the movable panel 1 at a position corresponding to a position where the upper roller 31 is attached, and can move along the lower guide rail 3. The lower roller 33 does not support the weight of the movable panel 1 unlike the upper roller 31, and may be simple, or may be a convex member that can slide in the lower guide rail 3 instead of the roller. .

  As shown in FIG. 3, the long portion 21 is constituted by a rail having a substantially rectangular cross section with a part of the lower portion opened, and the upper roller of the movable panel 1 by the lower flange portions 21 a provided on both sides of the open portion. 31 is supported. This structure is the same also about the rail which comprises the elongate part 22 and the accommodating part 23. FIG. The long portion 21 is joined to the lower surface of a support frame 32 having a substantially C-shaped cross section that is bolted to the upper portion of the column 12 by bolts or screws. The short support portion 22 has the same support structure.

  The lower guide rail 3 has a U-shaped section and is a metal frame made of aluminum, stainless steel, or the like. The lower guide rail 3 is fixed in a state in which the protruding portion 3a protruding from the lower portion of the frame is inserted into the opening hole of the floor plate 34. It can be removed when the movable panel 1 is accommodated. The floor of the space in which the cage is installed is generally a so-called OA floor, and is raised by the floor plate 34 so that wiring or the like can be passed under the floor plate 34.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a method for storing the moving panel, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing before and after storing the moving panel, (A) before storing, and (B) after storing. In FIG. 5, the number of moving panels is eight on each of the front and rear surfaces of the cage for easy comparison with the conventional example (FIG. 6).

  As shown in FIG. 5A, the movable panel 1 covers the front side and the rear side of the cage before the movable panel 1 is stored. Hereinafter, the procedure from the state of FIG. 5A to the state of FIG. 5B will be described.

  First, in the state of FIG. 5 (A), the above-described lock 26 is released so that the movable panel 1 can be moved. Next, the long portion 21 of the upper guide rail 2 is slid sequentially from the end moving panel 1 (see FIG. 4). When the upper roller 31 of the movable panel 1 reaches the short portion 22, the movable panel 1 is rotated by sliding on the upper roller 31 along the short portion 22. When the movable panel 1 is in parallel with the short portion 22, the other upper roller 31 is slid along the short portion 22.

  Next, when the upper roller 31 reaches the accommodating portion 23, each upper roller 31 is slid along the rails of the accommodating portion 23 in the direction of the cage side surface 11. Accordingly, the movable panel 1 is moved in a state of being substantially parallel to the cage side surface 11. When the movable panel 1 reaches the cage side surface 11 and cannot move, the next movable panel 1 is moved to the accommodating portion 23 by the same operation. When all the movable panels 1 are moved to the accommodating portion 23, the accommodating of the movable panel 1 is completed.

  When the movable panel 1 is stored for each of the front and rear surfaces of the cage in this way, the lower guide rail 3 is removed. When all these operations are completed, the state shown in FIG. The lower guide rail 3 does not necessarily need to be removed depending on the work content.

  As described above, when the sliding cage of the present embodiment is employed, the door does not protrude into the passage space when the door is opened, so that the door can be completely opened even if an obstacle is present. Moreover, since there is no restriction | limiting in the width direction of the passage space by opening a door, passage space can be minimized. Moreover, since the lower guide rail 3 can be removed, it is possible to work without worrying about the feet. Therefore, it is possible to improve workability such as installation / wiring / adjustment of equipment and to increase the efficiency of the installation space.

  The present invention is not limited to electronic devices such as communication devices and computer-related devices, but normally requires an enclosure for safety, such as power supply equipment, power equipment, etc. It can also be applied to technical fields that require

It is a front view of a sliding type cage concerning an embodiment. It is a partial top view which shows the outline | summary of the upper guide rail which concerns on embodiment. It is a fragmentary sectional view of the cage front concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which shows the storage method of the movement panel which concerns on embodiment. It is the figure which showed before and after the accommodation of the movement panel which concerns on embodiment, (A) is before accommodation, (B) is the figure which showed after accommodation. It is a figure which shows the conventional cage, (A) is a folding door type cage, (B) is a sliding door type cage.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Moving panel, 2 ... Upper guide rail, 3 ... Lower guide rail, 3a ... Projection part, 11 ... Cage side surface, 12 ... Pillar, 13 ... Partition, 14 ... Server rack, 21 ... Long part, 22 ... Short part , 23: accommodating portion, 24, 25 ... stopper, 26 ... lock, 31 ... upper roller, 32 ... support frame, 33 ... lower roller, 34 ... floor plate, 60, 64 ... panel, 61 ... roller, 62 ... guide rail, 63 ... Rack, 65 ... Lower guide rail

Claims (4)

A cage for storing electronic devices,
A plurality of movable panels that constitute the front or rear door of the cage and are accommodated on the side of the cage;
An upper guide rail that is provided on a ceiling of the cage and guides movement while suspending the movable panel;
A long portion longer than the width of the front or rear surface of the cage;
A short portion connected to the long portion along the side of the cage;
A sliding cage comprising: an accommodating portion for moving the movable panel from the short portion toward the cage side surface.   The sliding cage according to claim 1, further comprising a lower guide rail that guides movement of the movable panel on a floor portion of the cage.   The sliding cage according to claim 2, wherein the lower guide rail is detachable. A stopper provided at the center of the upper guide rail and restricting movement of the movable panel;
Locking means provided near the side surface of the cage, when the movable panel is opened and closed, is detached from the moving path of the moving panel, and protrudes on the moving path when the moving panel is closed. 2. The sliding cage according to claim 1, wherein the movable panel is restrained by sandwiching the door in a closed state between the stopper and the locking means.

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