JPH08329665A - Casing of information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To completely prevent the incursion of external dusts into a FDD by tightly providing a shutter in the inner surface of the floppy disk drive(FDD) inserting port of a front face cover. CONSTITUTION: A FDD inserting port 13 for a recording medium 5 insertion is provided in the front face cover 12 of a main body front face and a shutter 17 is tightly provided in its inner surface. A FDD 14 is housed in the rear side of the shutter 17. The shutter 17 is opened up to an inner side position around a rotary center shaft 18. In this constitution, during the inserting of the medium 5, the medium 5 is inserted into the FDD 14 while spreading out the shutter 17 by the medium 5 and positioned in a position 5a. Thus, other than when the medium 5 is inserted, since the shutter 17 is tightly fixed to the cover 12, the incursion of dusts from the outside is completely prevented and the FDD is prevented from being damaged by dusts entering from the outside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a case of an information processing apparatus, and more particularly to a case of an information processing apparatus having a floppy disk drive built therein.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a housing of a conventional information processing apparatus, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, a conventional information processing apparatus housing a floppy disk drive has a main body 1 containing information processing equipment including a floppy disk drive, and a front surface attached to the front surface of the main body 1. The front cover 2 is provided with an FDD insertion opening 3 for inserting a floppy disk (storage medium) 5 (see FIG. 3). As shown in FIG. 3, a floppy disk drive (FDD) 4 is housed inside the main body 1 at a position corresponding to the FDD insertion opening 3.
A shutter 7 is provided on the front surface of 4 to prevent dust from entering from the outside. The shutter 7 has a rotation center axis 8
Open inward with center as the center (open position is reference 7a)
Is able to.

[0004]

In the case of the conventional information processing apparatus as described above, the FDD insertion opening of the front cover is always open, and the storage medium is inserted from the FDD insertion opening which is always open. Then, while opening the shutter of FDD, F
It is configured to insert a storage medium into the DD.

Therefore, the dust from the outside enters the inside of the main body through the FDD insertion opening of the front cover and the inside of the FDD through the gap between the shutter and the frame of the FDD (arrow B in FIG. 3). reference). Therefore, there is a drawback that the FDD may be damaged by dust entering from the outside.

[0006]

A housing of an information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a main body containing an information processing apparatus including a floppy disk drive, and a position attached to the front surface of the main body and corresponding to the floppy disk drive. A front cover having an FDD insertion opening for inserting a floppy disk and a shutter attached to the inner surface of the FDD insertion opening of the front cover are provided.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

The external appearance of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is similar to that of the conventional example shown in FIG. 2, but the mounting position of the shutter is different. That is, the front cover 12 attached to the front surface of the main body is
An FDD insertion opening 13 for inserting the storage medium 5 is provided, and a shutter 17 is provided in close contact with the inner surface of the FDD insertion opening 13. A floppy disk drive (FDD) 14 is housed behind the shutter 17. The shutter 17 can be opened inward about the rotation center axis 18 (the opened position is reference numeral 17a).

When the storage medium 5 is inserted, the housing of the information processing apparatus configured as described above pushes the shutter 17 open on the storage medium 5 and opens the storage medium 5 in the FDD 14.
Is inserted (the insertion position is reference numeral 5a). Therefore, the shutter 17 is not attached to the front cover 1 except when the storage medium 5 is inserted.
It is in close contact with 2 to prevent dust from entering from the outside.

The above-described embodiment is an example in which the built-in FDD is not provided with a shutter, but like the FDD in FIG.
A shutter may be provided on the front surface of the FDD.

[0012]

As described above, the housing of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a shutter that is in close contact with the inner surface of the FDD insertion opening of the front cover, so that dust from the outside can be removed.
There is an effect that it is possible to completely prevent the FDD from entering the inside of the FDD through the DD insertion port, and thus it is possible to prevent the FDD from being damaged by dust that enters from the outside.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a housing of a conventional information processing apparatus.

3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body 2/12 Front cover 3.13 FDD insertion slot 4.14 Floppy disk drive (FDD) 5 Floppy disk (storage medium) 7/17 Shutter 8/18 Rotation center axis

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A main body having a built-in information processing device including a floppy disk drive, and a front cover having an FDD insertion opening, which is attached to the front surface of the main body and has a floppy disk inserted at a position corresponding to the floppy disk drive. And a shutter attached to the inner surface of the FDD insertion opening of the front cover. 2. The case of the information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a shutter is provided in the built-in floppy disk drive.