JP6910706B2 - Cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment.

As described in Patent Document 1, a cabinet provided by combining plate materials is known. The structure described in Patent Document 1 has a structure in which a rail member can be attached by using an attachment hole provided inside the exterior panel.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-032838

However, in the structure described in Patent Document 1, since the plate materials are combined, the exterior panels located on the left and right are fixed to the top plate and the bottom plate. Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult to mount the device and perform the wiring work. Further, although the rail member was attached to the second bent portion formed by bending the ends of the exterior panels located on the left and right, a sufficient space could be secured between the exterior panel and the rail member. Therefore, it was not possible to secure sufficient wiring space.

The inventor of this case tried to solve this problem by diligently examining this point. An object of the present invention is to provide a cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment that can secure a sufficient wiring space.

In order to solve the above problems, the following means will be adopted. The first means is a cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment including a side frame having a vertical frame and a depth frame, a top plate, and a bottom plate, and the inside of the depth frame is erected at the inner end of the cabinet. The erecting part is located inside the cabinet than the inner vertical surface part formed at the inner end of the cabinet of the vertical frame, and is provided for storing electrical and electronic equipment in which the fixing part of the mounting member is provided in the inner standing part of the depth frame. It is a cabinet.

In the first means, a fixing member for fixing the vertical frame and the depth frame may be provided at a connection point between the side frame and the top plate or the bottom plate, and may be fixed to the horizontal plane of the depth frame. preferable.

In the first means, an upright surface formed by bending the front-rear end of the top plate or bottom plate protrudes outside the housing from the vertical surface of the vertical frame, and corners provided at the corners of the side frame. The cover has a protrusion that protrudes toward the outside of the housing from the vertical surface of the vertical frame, and the protrusion is provided with a mounting hole into which the protrusion is fitted when the door is mounted on the housing. Is preferable.

In the present invention, it is possible to provide a cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment that can secure a sufficient wiring space.

It is a perspective view of a cabinet. It is a perspective view which showed the state which the exterior panel was removed from a cabinet. It is a perspective view which shows the state before combining the top plate, the bottom plate, and the side frame body. It is a perspective view of the side frame body. It is a front view of the side frame body which attached the mount member. It is a perspective view of the vertical frame and the depth frame used for assembling the side frame body. It is an exploded perspective view around the corner part of the side frame body. It is a perspective view around the bottom plate. It is a perspective view of a depth frame. It is a perspective view of a vertical frame. It is a perspective view of a fixing member. It is a partial enlarged view around the fixing member in the state where the corner cover is not attached. It is a partially enlarged view around the fixing member and the door.

The mode for carrying out the invention is shown below. The cabinet 1 of the present embodiment is for storing electrical and electronic equipment, and as can be understood from those shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, a side frame 11 having a vertical frame 2 and a depth frame 3 and a top plate 4 and a bottom plate 5 are provided. Further, as can be understood from those shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, the inner standing portion 31 erected at the inner end of the cabinet of the depth frame 3 is formed inside the inner end of the cabinet of the vertical frame 2. It is located inside the cabinet 1 with respect to the vertical surface portion 21. Further, the inner vertical portion 31 of the depth frame 3 is provided with a fixing portion 34 used for fixing the mount member 12. Therefore, it is possible to provide the cabinet 1 for storing electrical and electronic equipment that can sufficiently secure the wiring space.

The cabinet 1 of the present embodiment is for mounting electric devices such as a power supply and a server, and by combining the side frame 11, the top plate 4, and the bottom plate 5, a skeleton as a housing is formed. There is. The fixing member 6 is used for connecting and fixing the side frame body 11 and the top plate 4 and for connecting and fixing the side frame body 11 and the bottom plate 5. The fixing members 6 are arranged at the corners of the side frame 11 formed in a rectangular shape, and four fixing members 6 are used in one side frame 11.

A door 13 or a plate 14 is attached to the front surface and the back surface of a structure formed by combining the side frame body 11, the top plate 4, and the bottom plate 5. Further, inside the cabinet 1, a mounting member 12 to which an electric device such as a power supply or a server is attached is attached. This makes it possible to organize and store electrical equipment and protect it from the external environment.

The top plate 4 connected to the side frame 11 is provided with an opening 41 through which the wiring in the cabinet 1 can be taken out. In order to exhaust the heat inside the cabinet 1 from the opening 41, heat countermeasure devices such as a fan and a louver can be attached around the opening 41.

The side frame 11 connected to the top plate 4 is configured by combining the vertical frame 2 and the depth frame 3 as shown in FIGS. 4 and 6. Further, as can be understood from FIGS. 4 and 6 to 8, the vertical frame 2 and the depth frame 3 are fixed by the fixing member 6. An opening 81 is provided in the central portion of the side frame 11, and the opening 81 is covered with a removable exterior panel 15. The exterior panel 15 is provided with a plurality of slits 82 to suppress a temperature rise inside the housing. The exterior panel 15 is fixed to the side frame with screws, latches, or the like.

The depth frame 3, which is a component of the side frame body 11, is arranged so as to be in contact with the top plate 4 or the bottom plate 5. As can be understood from FIG. 9, the depth frame 3 has a horizontal plane 32 extending in the horizontal direction, an inner standing portion 31 located on the inner side of the cabinet 1 from the horizontal plane 32, and the cabinet 1 from the horizontal plane 32. It includes an outer standing portion 33 located on the outer side. The inner vertical portion 31 of the depth frame 3 is provided with a plurality of holes as a fixing portion 34 used for attaching the mount member 12. The mounting member 12 is attached so as to pass between the depth frames 3 located at the upper and lower parts of the cabinet 1. The outer standing portion 33 of the depth frame 3 constitutes the outer shape of the cabinet 1. Further, the end portion of the outer standing portion 33 is bent so as to face the horizontal plane 32, and forms a panel mounting surface 35 on which the exterior panel 15 can be mounted when the exterior panel 15 is attached or detached.

The vertical frame 2, which is a component of the side frame 11, is perpendicular to the vertical surface 22 which is in contact with the door 13 or the plate 14 and extends in the vertical direction, and the inner vertical surface portion 21 located on the inner side of the cabinet 1 from the vertical surface 22. An outer vertical surface portion 23 located on the outer side of the cabinet 1 from the surface 22 is provided. As can be seen from FIG. 10, the inner vertical surface portion 21 is provided with a plurality of holes 24. If a wiring fixing member for bundling the cable is passed through the hole 24, the cable can be fixed to the inner vertical surface portion 21. Further, in the center of the inner vertical surface portion 21, a locking portion 25 into which the locking means 16 provided on the door 13 can be inserted is provided, and the locking means 16 and the locking portion 25 are locked by locking. , The door 13 can be kept closed.

The outer vertical surface portion 23 of the vertical frame 2 forms the outer shape of the cabinet 1. Further, by bending the end portion of the outer vertical surface portion 23, a wiring member mounting surface is formed at the end portion of the vertical frame 2. A wiring member mounting hole 26 is provided on the wiring member mounting surface, and the wiring member mounting hole 26 is used to fix the outlet member that supplies power to the electrical equipment in the cabinet 1 and the wiring of the electrical equipment. It is possible to attach a wiring fixing member or the like used for this purpose.

As can be understood from FIGS. 5 and 8, the inner standing portion 31 of the depth frame 3 is located inside the housing with respect to the inner vertical surface portion 21 of the vertical frame 2. Therefore, a space adjacent to the exterior panel 15 can be sufficiently secured as a wiring space. Further, the width of the horizontal plane 32 of the depth frame 3 of the present embodiment is formed to be larger than the width of the vertical plane 22 of the vertical frame 2. Further, the distance between the inner standing portion 31 and the outer standing portion 33 is formed to be larger than the distance between the inner vertical surface portion 21 and the outer vertical surface portion 23. By providing the horizontal plane 32 of the depth frame 3 widely, the space between the horizontal planes 32 of the depth frame 3 located above and below can be used as a wiring space.

As can be understood from FIGS. 1 and 8, in the present embodiment, the mounting member 12 attached to the inner standing portion 31 of the depth frame 3 is located between the horizontal planes 32 of the depth frame 3 located above and below. The mounting member 12 can be formed wide in the space of the above, and this wiring is provided by providing not only the equipment mounting hole 17 for mounting an electric device or the like on the device mounting surface but also the wiring member mounting hole 18 on the same surface. A wiring fixing member or the like can be attached to the member mounting hole 18 to fix the wiring of the electric device. Therefore, the space between the device mounting hole 17 and the exterior panel 15 can be used as the wiring space as compared with the conventional configuration in which the space between the mount member and the side plate is not sufficiently secured.

In the fixing member 6 of the present embodiment, the fixing member 6 is attached to the horizontal plane 32 of the depth frame 3. Therefore, the fixing member 6 and the top plate 4, or the fixing member 6 and the bottom plate 5 have a depth frame 3 interposed between them. In the prior art, the fixing member 6 is attached to the top plate 4 or the bottom plate 5, but in the present embodiment in which the depth frame 3 is located between them, the strength can be increased as compared with the prior art.

Further, in the present embodiment, the fixing member 6 for fixing the vertical frame 2 and the depth frame 3 is provided at the connection point between the side frame body 11 and the top plate 4 or the bottom plate 5, and the horizontal plane of the depth frame 3 is provided. It is fixed at 32. Therefore, the strength can be increased. More specifically, the fixing member 6 of the present embodiment has a first fixing surface 61 welded and fixed to the depth frame 3 and a vertical portion, as shown in FIGS. 4, 7 and 11. A second fixing surface 62 to be welded and fixed to the frame 2 and a third fixing surface 63 to weld and fix the vertical frame 2 and the top plate 4 or the vertical frame 2 and the bottom plate 5 are provided. In the prior art, since the fixing member is fixed to the bottom plate, the insertion piece provided in the fixing member is inserted into the slit of the side plate, and the side plate and the fixing member are welded and fixed, the welding fixing surface of the fixing member is two. Although it became a surface and the fixing strength was not sufficient, in the present embodiment, the fixing member 6 is the vertical surface 22 and the outer vertical surface portion 23 of the vertical frame 2, the horizontal surface 32 of the depth frame 3, and the top plate 4 or the bottom plate 5. Since it is welded and fixed to the second vertical surface 53, the welding and fixing surfaces of the fixing member 6 have three surfaces, and the fixing strength can be increased. Since the fixing member 6 of the present embodiment is fixed at a portion adjacent to the fixing portion 34 provided in the inner standing portion 31 of the depth frame 3, the supporting strength of the mounting member 12 can be increased. ..

A plurality of holes 83 are provided in the first fixing surface 61 which is welded and fixed to the horizontal plane 32 of the depth frame 3. Since this hole is provided adjacent to the hole portion (not shown) provided in the bottom plate 5 and the depth frame 3, the member so as to penetrate the bottom plate 5, the depth frame 3, and the fixing member 6. Can be placed. Therefore, for example, an anchor bolt for installing the cabinet 1 can be inserted into the hole 83. Further, if the nut is fixed to the hole 83, the mounting work can be facilitated when the caster, the level foot, or the like is mounted on the bottom surface of the cabinet 1.

In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 12, the upright surface 51 formed by bending the ends of the top plate 4 or the bottom plate 5 in the front-rear direction faces the outside of the housing with respect to the vertical surface 22 of the vertical frame 2. It is protruding. Further, as can be understood from FIG. 13, a protruding portion 71 in which the corner cover 7 provided at the corner portion of the side frame body 11 projects toward the outside of the housing from the vertical surface 22 of the vertical frame 2 is provided. Have. The protrusion 71 is provided with a mounting hole 72 into which the protrusion 19 is fitted when the door 13 is mounted on the housing. Therefore, the door 13 can be rotatably supported by fitting the protrusion 19 protruding from the upper surface and / or the lower surface of the door 13 into the mounting hole 72. In the prior art, the front side portion of the top plate or bottom plate and the front side portion of the side plate are provided so as to line up on the surface, and spiral with respect to the hinge attached to the front side of the top plate and the bottom surface. Since the door was fixed by such means, parts had to be attached and detached when attaching or detaching the door, such as when changing the rotation direction of the door, and workability was not good. However, with the above configuration, the door 13 Workability for installation and removal of the door can be improved. The protrusion 19 is configured to be movable so that the protrusion from the door 13 can be temporarily suppressed when the door 13 is attached or detached.

The cabinet 1 of the present embodiment has a configuration in which mounting holes 72 are provided at both the upper and lower positions on the left and right sides of the cabinet 1. By doing so, it is possible to select whether to support the door 13 using the mounting holes 72 located on the upper and lower sides on the right side or to support the door 13 using the mounting holes 72 located on the upper and lower sides on the left side. This makes it possible to change the direction of rotation of the door.

In the present embodiment, the mounting surface 52 is formed by bending the end portion of the erection surface 51 formed by bending so as to stand up from the installation surface 54 of the bottom plate 5. The mounting surface 52 of the present embodiment is formed by bending the end portion of the standing surface 51 so as to be parallel to the installation surface 54, and the mounting surface 52 and the installation surface 54 form a U-shaped hollow shape. By inserting and fixing the corner cover 7 in the space, the holding force of the door 13 by the corner cover 7 can be increased. Further, the second standing surface 53 is provided by further bending so as to stand up from the mounting surface 52. The second erecting surface 53 is welded and fixed to the third fixing surface 63 of the fixing member 6, and can shield a gap generated between the upper and lower mounting surfaces 52 and the door 13, and the housing can be shielded from the gap. It can prevent you from seeing inside the body.

It is preferable that the length of the mounting surface 52 in the front-rear direction is substantially the same as the length of the door 13 in the front-rear direction so that the surface of the door 13 and the upright surface 51 are in a flat state. Further, it is more preferable that the entire front surface side of the cabinet 1 is made flat by aligning the protruding amount of the corner cover 7 with the upright surface 51. If the second standing surface 53 has a flat positional relationship with the vertical surface 22 of the vertical frame 2, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of rattling when the door 13 is closed.

Although the above description has focused on some embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments and can be in various embodiments. For example, the mount member can be a flat plate-shaped member having a plurality of holes. With such a form, the thickness of the mount member can be suppressed, so that a sufficient wiring space can be secured.

1 Cabinet 2 Vertical frame 3 Depth frame 4 Top plate 5 Bottom plate 6 Fixing member 7 Corner cover 11 Side frame 12 Mounting member 13 Door 19 Protrusion 21 Inner vertical surface 22 Vertical surface 23 Outer vertical surface 31 Inner vertical surface 32 Horizontal plane 34 Fixed part 51 Standing surface 71 Protruding part 72 Mounting hole

Claims (1)

A cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment, including a side frame having a vertical frame and a depth frame, a top plate, and a bottom plate.
The inner standing portion erected at the inner end of the cabinet of the depth frame is located inside the cabinet than the inner vertical surface formed at the inner end of the cabinet of the vertical frame.
A fixing part for the mounting member is provided on the inner vertical part of the depth frame.
An upright surface formed by bending the front-back ends of the top plate or bottom plate protrudes outside the housing from the vertical surface of the vertical frame.
The corner cover provided at the corner of the side frame has a protruding portion that protrudes toward the outside of the housing from the vertical surface of the vertical frame.
A cabinet for storing electrical and electronic equipment provided with a mounting hole in the protruding portion into which the protruding portion is fitted when the door is attached to the housing.

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