JP3057246U - Tower type personal computer mounting table and personal computer rack using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To provide a mounting table capable of mounting or storing a tower type personal computer more compactly. A tower on which a tower type personal computer 3 is mounted, comprising a support plate 4 for fixing the position and a revolving plate 2 for mounting the tower type personal computer 3, the support plate 4 being slightly skewed in the left-right direction. The front and rear sliding contact grooves and the left and right sliding contact grooves slightly skewed in the front and rear direction are provided in a substantially right-angle positional relationship, and the front and rear and left and right sliders fitted into the respective sliding contact grooves are attached to the revolving plate 2. The revolving plate 2 is pivotally connected to the support plate 4 according to a revolving angle uniquely determined from the positional relationship of the sliders in the sliding contact groove.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a tower-type personal computer mounting table for rotatably mounting and storing a tower-type personal computer, and a personal computer rack having a short depth using the mounting table.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 In recent years, personal computers have begun to spread rapidly. In the past, many PCs were desktop desktops, which were horizontally long and flat, but because of the ease of adding and customizing functions, they are shifting to vertically long, narrow tower PCs. Conventionally, this tower type personal computer has an insertion port or an outlet of an FD drive or CD-ROM drive, etc., and various connectors are provided on the back. Was customary. When a personal computer rack was not used, the tower type personal computer was placed directly at the feet of the desk or on the desk in the above-mentioned direction.

[0003] Even when a tower-type personal computer is stored in a personal computer rack, it is basically the same as the above-described arrangement. In other words, (1) a shelf on which a display and a personal computer are placed on the upper shelf of a sliding keyboard, and a display and a tower-type personal computer are arranged side by side; or (2) a display on the upper shelf of a keyboard shelf. The shelf on which the personal computer is placed and the shelf on which the personal computer is placed are arranged below, and the display and the tower type personal computer are placed separately. In any case, the tower-type personal computer was placed with its front side facing the front, considering access to the insertion slot or the extraction port of the FD drive or CD-ROM drive.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 In order to secure the necessary space and high expandability for cooling with the speeding-up of CPUs, the tower type PCs have become larger and larger, especially in depth. For this reason, the depth of the display has been shortened, and even if liquid crystal displays, which claim to be particularly thin, have begun to spread, it was necessary to secure a large space in the depth direction for mounting the tower type personal computer. Even if it was stored at the feet of the desk, the tower-type personal computer would protrude greatly in the forward direction, which could not be denied.

[0005] The increase in the performance of personal computers and the spread of networks (especially the Internet and intranet) have changed the way personal computers are used, and the frequency of use of FDs has recently decreased. Although CD-ROMs are widely used as installation media, they are rarely changed frequently. Therefore, the necessary space in the depth direction can be shortened while placing or storing the tower type personal computer, and the front side of the tower type personal computer can be turned to the front again when access to the FD drive or CD-ROM drive is required. As a result, a study was conducted with the aim of a mounting table and a personal computer rack capable of mounting or storing a tower type personal computer more compactly.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 As a result of the study, the table that was developed was a table on which a tower-type personal computer was placed, which consisted of a support plate for fixing the position and a revolving plate on which this personal computer was placed.The support plate was slightly inclined in the left-right direction. The front and rear sliding contact grooves and the left and right sliding contact grooves slightly inclined in the front and rear direction are provided in a substantially right-angle positional relationship, and the front and rear and left and right sliders fitted into the respective sliding contact grooves are mounted on the revolving plate. This is a tower-type personal computer mounting table in which the revolving plate is pivotally connected to a support plate in accordance with a revolving angle uniquely determined from the positional relationship of each slider in the groove. The support plate and the turning plate are preferably made of a metal plate or a thick wood plate, and the slider is preferably made of a metal or a synthetic resin.

[0007] The support plate may be provided with a bracket for fixing to a column, wall surface or beam of a desk in accordance with the fixing position, and a leg for ensuring the stability of the support plate itself. In this case, the support plate connects the revolving plate parallel to the upper surface. Therefore, it is preferable to extend and bend the support plate side edge to form a flange surface, and attach a bracket to the flange surface. The swivel plate is provided with a support guide for the tower-type personal computer on which it is placed, or a fixed band that is hung from the support guide to the tower-type personal computer to prevent the displacement of the tower-type personal computer when the swivel plate rotates. It should be prevented. In addition, by attaching a caster or the like to the swivel plate, stability of the swivel plate at the time of turning can be ensured. Further, if a handle is provided on the swivel plate, operation is easy.

[0008] In a personal computer rack using this tower-type personal computer mounting table, the supporting plate of the mounting table is fixed to the rack body, and the swivel plate is usually turned sideways so that the side of the tower-type personal computer is stored facing forward. If necessary, the swivel plate can be swiveled so that the front of the tower-type personal computer faces the front, and the depth of the rack body can be shortened to match the width of the tower-type personal computer.

[0009] The tower-type personal computer mounting table of the present invention usually has the side of the tower-type personal computer facing the front, but can turn the tower-type personal computer so that the front can be turned to the front if necessary. Placed and stored. For example, if the support plate is fixed to the lower edge of the wall of the desk via a bracket and the mounting table is set up at the foot of the desk, the side of the tower-type PC will be stored at the foot of the desk with the side facing the front. The space below the desk can be widely used. Further, when a personal computer rack is applied to the mounting table, the depth of the rack body can be reduced. In this case, the shelf on which the keyboard is to be placed (called the keyboard shelf) is slid out and pulled out to the front, so that the support legs of the rack can be extended to the front in order to secure the posture stability of the rack. It is preferable to have an expandable and contractible structure.

[0010] The tower type personal computer is quite heavy, and there is a possibility that the turning of the turning plate becomes unstable with one turning axis. Therefore, in the present invention, each slider attached to the revolving plate is brought into sliding contact with two front and rear and left and right sliding contact grooves provided on the support plate, respectively, and the positional relationship between the front and rear and left and right sliders in each sliding contact groove is univocal. The swivel plate is regulated at a fixed turning angle to achieve stable turning. Further, such a structure in which the turning angle of the turning plate is restricted by the positional relationship of the sliders also has a function of preventing the turning plate from being accidentally turned when a force is applied to the turning plate from an unexpected direction.

[0011] The arrangement and positional relationship of each sliding contact groove differs depending on the form of turning required for the turning plate. For example, there are the following arrangements and positional relationships. First, a front-rear sliding groove extending forward from a virtual center of rotation of the revolving plate and a left-right sliding groove extending rightward (or leftward) are provided in a substantially right-angle positional relationship. For example, when the support plate is installed on the left wall surface of the desk, the left and right sliding contact grooves extend leftward, and when the support plate is installed on the right wall surface, the left and right sliding contact grooves extend leftward. In any case, the front and rear sliding contact grooves are inclined in the extending direction of the left and right sliding contact grooves, and the left and right sliding contact grooves are inclined in the forward direction. In this case, the axis connecting the front end of the front and rear sliding contact groove and the left end (or right end) of the left and right sliding contact groove, and the axis connecting the rear end of the front and rear sliding contact groove and the right end (or left end) of the left and right sliding contact groove are: With the orthogonal relationship, the swivel plate will have a precise 90 degree swivel range. The positional relationship between the front and rear sliding contact grooves and the left and right sliding contact grooves is relative, and the two may be interchanged depending on the installation direction of the support plate.

[0012]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 and 2 are perspective views showing a state in which a tower type personal computer mounting table showing an example of a specific structure of the present invention is used at the foot of a desk 1 and used. FIG. FIG. 2 shows a state in which the revolving plate 2 is swung and the front of the tower type personal computer 3 is turned to the front. FIGS. 3 to 5 are perspective views (tower-type personal computer omitted) showing the state of turning of the turning plate 2 with the mounting table of this embodiment alone. FIG. FIG. 5 shows the end of the turn (in use) during the turn.

The mounting table of this embodiment is used, for example, installed at the foot of the desk 1. Normally, as shown in FIG. 1, the revolving plate 2 is in the housed state, and the side surface of the tower type personal computer 3 is turned to the front. As a result, the front of the desk 1 opens widely, and a feeling of freedom can be given to the feet at the time of desk work. When using the FD or the CD-ROM during the operation, as shown in FIG. 2, the turning plate 2 may be turned so that the front of the tower type personal computer 3 may be turned to the front. As will be described later, legs 5 are provided on the support plate 4, a swivel caster 6 is mounted on the revolving plate 2, and a handle 7 is mounted on a side edge corresponding to the front surface of the tower type computer 3. Thus, the operator can easily turn the turning plate 2 while pulling the handle 7 so that the front of the tower type personal computer 3 can be turned to the front. Only the display, in addition to the keyboard 8 and the mouse 9, can be placed on the upper surface of the desk 1. If the display is a liquid crystal display 10 as shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2, it is possible to provide a comfortable working space that is wide above and below the desk.

Next, the structure of the mounting table will be described with reference to FIG. The mounting table of this example is provided with front and rear and left and right sliding contact grooves 11 and 12 on a substantially pentagonal support plate 4 and circular front and rear and left and right sliders 13 and 14 attached at fixed intervals to the back surface of the revolving plate 2. It is configured to be individually fitted into the sliding contact grooves 11 and 12. The support plate 4 extends and bends one side edge to form a flange surface 15, and is fixed to a lower edge of a wall surface 17 of the desk 1 via a bracket 16 attached to the flange surface 15. The support plate 4 has three legs 5 fixed thereto and installed at a fixed height from the floor surface. The height serves as a height allowance for attaching the swivel caster 6 to the revolving plate 2. The bracket 16 is screwed into the adjusting groove 18 of the flange surface 15 at an arbitrary position so as to reach the lower edge of the wall 17 of the desk 1, and is fastened to the wall 17 with a screw, so that a different wall 17 is provided. The support plate 4 can be stably installed in accordance with the height and thickness of the edge. The front and rear sliding contact groove 11, which is a feature of the present invention, is skewed rightward from the front left back to the front, and the left and right sliding contact groove 12 is skewed forward from the left back to the right. I have.

The revolving plate 2 has a flat rectangular plate shape similar to the bottom surface of a tower-type personal computer (see FIG. 1 or FIG. 2) to be placed, and has front and rear and left and right sliders 13 and 14 on the front left side and freely on the right side. Casters 6,6 are attached. Thus, the revolving plate 2 is supported on the support plate 4 by four sliders 13 and 14 and on the floor surface by four free casters 6 and 6 in total. In addition, a support guide 19 that faces the side of the tower-type personal computer placed on the turning plate 2 is erected from the front side edge, and a handle 7 possessed by the worker during turning is attached to the side side edge. . From the support guide 19, a fixing band 20 (see FIG. 1 or FIG. 2) to be hung around a tower type personal computer is attached as a conventional personal computer fixing means. The mounted tower-type personal computer achieves a stable mounting by addressing the side surface to the support guide 19 and fastening the personal computer to the revolving plate 2 with the fixed band 20.

Subsequently, the turning of the turning plate 2 will be described with reference to a series of drawings in FIGS. In the retracted state where the rotation starts, as shown in FIG. 3, the turning plate 2 is supported by the front and rear sliders 13 at the front end of the front and rear sliding contact grooves 11 and the left and right sliders 14 at the left end of the left and right sliding contact grooves 12. It is connected to 4. In this state, when the user starts to turn the swivel plate 2 by pulling the handle 7 toward the front side, as shown in FIG. 4, the left and right sliders 14 are firstly displaced forward and largely displaced rightward. The front and rear slider 13 is slightly displaced rearward and leftward. That is, approximately, the revolving plate 2 revolves around the front and rear slider 13. When the handle 7 is further pulled to continue turning the revolving plate 2, as shown in FIG. 5, the front and rear sliders 13 are now small to the left and largely displaced rearward, and the right and left sliders 14 are to the front and right. The turn is completed when the tower is slightly displaced and the front of the tower-type personal computer (not shown) faces the front. FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a series of trajectories of the revolving plate 2.

The above-described turning mode of the turning plate 2 is a feature of the present invention. This is because the sliding grooves 11 and 12 are slightly skewed, so that the displacement in the left-right (front-rear) direction is smaller than the displacement in the front-rear (left-right) direction of the front-rear slider 13 (left-right slider 14). Based on that. As a result, the front and rear and left and right sliders 13 and 14 displaced along the respective sliding contact grooves 11 and 12 are not always displaced by the same amount, but when one is largely displaced, the other is displaced small in a substantially orthogonal direction. Thus, it is possible to restrict the turning of the turning plate 2 while restraining each other. As described above, the skew of the sliding grooves 11 and 12 in the present invention suppresses careless turning of the turning plate 2, and the turning plate 2 is stabilized at a turning angle uniquely determined by the positional relationship between the sliders 13 and 14. So that they can turn.

For personal use, there are many examples of storing a tower type personal computer in a personal computer rack together with peripheral devices. The mounting table of the present invention is basically installed as a single unit, but it can also be used in a form embedded in a personal computer rack. 7 and 8 are perspective views showing an example of a personal computer rack 21 to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 7 shows a stored state in which the revolving plate 2 is turned sideways, and FIG. 3 shows a state in which the front is turned to the front. In the personal computer rack 21, since the support plate 4 is assembled in advance, a flange surface and a bracket are not required, and are omitted in this example.

The configuration of the personal computer rack 21 of the present embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 7, the rack body 22 has a multi-stage shelf structure surrounded by four columns 23, and has a keyboard shelf 24 having a slide mechanism that can be pulled out in the middle stage. A display shelf 25 on which a display is placed is arranged, and a multi-layered equipment shelf 26 is arranged at the bottom. The swivel plate 2 is located at the lowermost level as a personal computer shelf on which the tower-type personal computer 3 is placed. The mounted personal computer 3 is fastened by a fixed band 20 while being directed to the support guide 19 which can be seen in front of the personal computer 3, thereby preventing falling. The support legs 27 of the rack body 22 can be stored, and if necessary, can be pulled out forward (see Fig. 8) to prevent the rack body 22 from tipping over so that the keyboard shelf 24 projects far forward with respect to the depth. Is to be planned.

When the tower type personal computer 3 is used, the keyboard shelf 24 is pulled out to the front as shown in FIG. 8, and the swivel plate 2 is turned up to the front as needed, and the FD or CD-ROM Use As is clear from FIG. 8, when the swivel plate 2 is swung, the tower-type personal computer 3 protrudes forward from the rack main body 22, and the state in which the front of the tower-type personal computer 3 is directed to the front is conventional. If it is the depth of the personal computer rack, it can be understood how the depth of the personal computer rack 21 to which the present invention is applied is short.

[0021]

[Effect of the invention]

 The tower-type personal computer mounting table of the present invention enables smarter storage and use of tower-type personal computers that previously required space in the depth direction. When stored, a tower-type personal computer that is lying sideways can easily turn its front to the front when necessary, so that it is not inconvenient to use. Rather, when stored, the back side of the tower-type personal computer can be accessed from the side, which has the advantage of facilitating the connection of various interfaces. Also, in recent years, new-generation interfaces such as USB and IEEE1394 have been adopted for personal computers, and cables for connecting to personal computers have begun to be organized. By using such a new-generation interface and the mounting table of the present invention together, the storage of the tower-type personal computer can be made more refreshing.

Further, the personal computer rack to which the present invention is applied makes it possible to provide a personal computer rack having a shorter depth than ever before. Since the PC rack itself occupies a large space, shortening in the depth direction is a great advantage, especially in Japan, where the living environment is never blessed. In particular, such a personal computer rack does not generate useless space when using a liquid crystal display. A computer rack to which the present invention is applied is one that fits in a compact manner while harmonizing a thinner display and a larger personal computer with technological innovation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a tower type personal computer mounting table in a housed state.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a tower-type personal computer mounting table in a state where the front surface of the tower-type personal computer is directed to the front.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view (tower type personal computer omitted) showing a turning start (in a stored state).

FIG. 4 is a perspective view (tower type personal computer omitted) showing a halfway turn.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view (tower type personal computer omitted) showing the end of the turn (in use).

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a trajectory of a series of revolving plates.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the personal computer rack in a housed state.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing the personal computer rack in a state where the front surface of the tower type personal computer is directed to the front.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Revolving plate 4 Support plate 11 Front and rear sliding contact groove 12 Left and right sliding contact groove 13 Front and rear slider 14 Left and right slider

Claims (2)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A stand for mounting a tower type personal computer, comprising a support plate for fixing a position and a revolving plate for mounting the personal computer, wherein the support plate has a front and rear sliding contact groove slightly inclined in the left-right direction. And right and left sliding contact grooves slightly inclined in the front and rear direction are provided in a substantially right angle positional relationship, and front and rear and left and right sliders fitted into the respective sliding contact grooves are attached to the revolving plate, and each slider in each sliding contact groove is provided. A tower type personal computer mounting table, wherein the revolving plate is pivotally connected to a support plate in accordance with a revolving angle uniquely determined from the positional relationship of the revolving plate. 2. The support plate of the tower-type personal computer mounting table according to claim 1 is fixed to the rack body, and the swivel plate is usually turned sideways and stored such that the side surface of the tower-type personal computer faces front,
A personal computer rack characterized in that the swivel plate is rotated as necessary so that the front of the tower-type personal computer faces the front, and the depth of the rack body is shortened in accordance with the width of the tower-type personal computer.