KR20070045427A - Slimmish structure of a desktop computer - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a slimming structure of a desktop computer, in which a motherboard 200 and a liquid crystal monitor 2 are embedded in the computer main body 100, and the liquid crystal monitor 2 is parallel to the front surface of the motherboard 200. On the other hand, peripheral components are electrically connected to the motherboard 200 via the horizontally fastened slots 24, 28, 32, and 36, and the electrical components of the horizontally fastened slots 24, 28, 32, and 36 are The contact pins are vertically inserted into the rear surface of the motherboard 200, and the electrical contact holes of the horizontal fastening slots 24, 28, 32, and 36 are disposed in parallel with the motherboard 200, so that peripheral components Since the slots 24, 28, 32, and 36 are connected in parallel to the motherboard 200, the thickness of the computer main body 200 is greatly reduced, so that the transportation, installation, and management are convenient. In addition, since the user can use it in a wider working environment, the merchandise is greatly improved. .

Description

Slim structure of desktop computer {Slimmish Structure Of a DeskTop Computer}

1 is a view showing the appearance of a desktop computer having a slimming structure according to the present invention;

2 is a view showing the internal slimming structure of the desktop computer shown in FIG.

3 is a view showing in detail the shape of the horizontal fastening slot shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

2: liquid crystal monitor, 4: imaging camera,

6: key panel, 8: floppy disk drive,

10: cdrom drive, 12: speaker,

18: keyboard, 20: mouse device,

100: computer body, 200: motherboard.

The present invention relates to a desktop computer, and more particularly, to a slimming structure of a desktop computer in which the overall thickness of the desktop computer is minimized by changing a connection structure between a motherboard and peripheral components connected thereto.

In general, a computer expresses various characters, graphics, still images and moving images on a monitor by a high speed operation and data processing using a microprocessor and a large memory, and implements a desired voice through a speaker. It is a device with data operation function and multimedia function.

As such a computer is greatly reduced in price or actualized in contrast to the gradual increase in performance of its components, a personal computer (PC) that can be used for personal work processing has been developed and widely used.

The personal computer has a main body with various basic devices and additional devices necessary for control operation, processing and input / output of various data, and the result processed by the internal device of the main body as text, graphics, and still images / videos. A display monitor for displaying, a speaker for outputting data processing result values of the internal device of the main body by voice and sound, a keyboard for inputting various numbers, letters, or code information, and a selection and input function for driving various software or processing data. The mouse device is provided as a basic device.

Here, the main body of the personal computer includes a high speed microprocessor, a memory module, a chipset divided into a north bridge and a south bridge as a central processing unit for data operation on a motherboard. A motherboard equipped with the necessary equipment is installed, and the motherboard is equipped with various connectors and ports of E-IDE, USB, and PS2 methods, and external devices such as printers or internal devices such as graphic cards, sound cards, or modems are installed. Combined in the right place, it helps to enable multimedia functions.

In addition, a hard disk drive is essentially installed as a data storage in the main body of the personal computer, and a floppy disk drive for recording information to or reading information from a floppy disk or CD is additionally installed.

On the other hand, the main body of a personal computer equipped with such components has been evolving from a conventional laptop computer device to a desktop (desk top) method. In the case of such a desktop computer, the main body is displayed. It is mechanically separated from the monitor and the speaker so that sufficient space utilization of the main body is possible.

However, the conventional desktop computer has a method in which various peripheral components, such as a graphics card, a sound card, a microprocessor, and a built-in modem card, are vertically inserted into the motherboard through slots and ports, so that they are mounted. In order to accommodate enough inside, the thickness of the computer body can not but be increased significantly.

Therefore, when a desktop computer is installed and used in a limited space in an office or each home, the free space for the user can be narrowed, resulting in inconvenience in use.

In addition, the conventional desktop computer is configured in such a way that a display monitor or an imaging camera is installed separately from the main body, and therefore, if the computer is to be shipped or sold for the purpose of shipping, the computer not only has to bear expensive logistics costs. The problem is that users of the computer become cumbersome to manage and store it.

Accordingly, the present invention has been invented to solve the above problems, by incorporating them into the computer main body so that the liquid crystal monitor is disposed on the front of the motherboard, by changing the connection structure of the motherboard and the peripheral components connected thereto It is an object of the present invention to provide a slimming structure of a desktop computer such that the overall thickness of the desktop computer is minimized.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a motherboard and a liquid crystal monitor in a computer main body, and in a desktop computer in which a liquid crystal monitor is disposed in parallel on a front surface of a motherboard, peripheral components of the motherboard It is electrically connected through the horizontal fastening slot, and the electrical contact pin of the horizontal fastening slot is inserted into the rear of the motherboard in a vertical direction, and the electrical contact hole of the horizontal fastening slot is disposed in parallel with the motherboard. The components are structured in that they are connected in parallel to the motherboard via this slot.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

According to Fig. 1, a liquid crystal monitor 2 made of, for example, a TFT-LCD type display device is mounted on the front surface of the computer main body 100, and the background of the front is held at the upper center of the mounting position of the liquid crystal monitor 2; Alternatively, an imaging camera 4 for photographing as a moving picture is provided.

In addition, the bottom of the position where the liquid crystal monitor 2 in front of the computer main body 100 is installed, the personal computer is equipped with a plurality of function keys for power on / off, reset and sleep functions, and screen adjustment of the liquid crystal monitor. The key panel 6 is installed.

Meanwhile, a floppy disk drive 8 and a CD-ROM disk drive 10 are installed side by side along the slimmer longitudinal direction of the main body 100 on one side of the main body 100 of the computer main body 100. A plurality of speakers 12 are respectively connected to the voice output port exposed at the other side of the main body 100 at both sides.

Here, it is possible to form a screw hole at the rear end of the computer main body 100 so as to hang the computer main body 100 on a wall, and any fastening means that may be employed in addition to the screw hole may be employed. The plurality of speakers 12 may also be fixedly installed on walls corresponding to both side portions of the computer main body 100.

In addition, the other side of the computer main body 100 is a power cable 14 for the power supply for the operation of the desktop computer is drawn out, the power supply stabilizing unit for stabilizing the power supply at the middle end of the power cable 14 ( 14A) is interposed, and the communication connection cable 16 connected to the communication port exposed from the other side of the computer main body 100 is connected to a general public telephone line or a dedicated line.

In addition, the computer main body 100 is connected to the keyboard 18 for inputting / outputting data and inputting numbers, letters or various commands necessary for operation and control by wire, and executes a software program or a predetermined function. Mouse device 20 for selection is connected by wire.

Here, in the present embodiment, the keyboard 18 and the mouse device 20 are connected to the computer main body 100 by wire, but the wireless data receiving port is provided on the front of the computer main body 100 to provide wireless data. It is of course possible to employ a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse device having a transmission port.

FIG. 2 is a view illustrating an internal slimming structure of the desktop computer illustrated in FIG. 1, whereby the motherboard 200 is located at a rear rear surface of the liquid crystal monitor 2 installed at the front of the computer main body 100. The screws are arranged in parallel to the rear side of the back.

The motherboard 200 is a hard disk drive 22 having a large capacity in gigabytes on a predetermined portion of the upper surface of the motherboard 200 is screwed through the drive holder 24, the hard disk drive 22 is E It has a data port 22A for connecting an IDE type data cable and a power port 22B for connecting a power cable.

In addition, at one end of the motherboard 200, a processor slot 24 for fitting the microprocessor 26 in a horizontal direction with respect to the placement direction of the motherboard 200 is installed, 72 pin or 128 pin While the memory card 30 is formed in the horizontal direction is coupled to the memory slot 28 (for example, DIMM slot), the graphics slot for fitting the graphics card 34 mounted with a large capacity graphics memory in the horizontal direction ( 32) (e.g., an AGP slot).

In order to connect the data port 22A of the hard disk drive 22 and the data port 10A of the CD-ROM disk drive 10 to the vicinity of the location where the graphic slot 32 of the motherboard 200 is installed through a data cable. A plurality of primary / secondary IDE slots 36 are provided.

It should be noted that, as shown in FIG. 3, slots such as the memory slot 28, the processor slot 24, the IDE slot 36, and the graphics slot 32 are horizontally fastened slots. Electrical contact pins of the fastening slots 24, 28, 32, and 36 are inserted into the rear of the motherboard 200 in a vertical direction, and the electrical contact holes of the horizontal fastening slots 24, 28, 32, and 36 are It is arranged in parallel with the motherboard 200, in particular in the case of the processor slot 24 has a structure in which a fixed support 24A is formed on both sides thereof for a more secure coupling of the microprocessor 26. The microprocessor 26, the memory card 30, the graphics card 34, and the like are connected to the respective memory slots 28, the processor slots 24, and the graphics slots 32, and their sides on the motherboard 200. Are arranged parallel to each other.

Referring to FIG. 2, a plurality of circuit elements are mounted on the motherboard 200 for control operation processing, storage / reading of data, and data input / output for each accessory device. The chip 38, the northbridge chipset 40, and the southbridge chipset 42 are mounted.

The I / O chip 38 manages input / output and data processing of various serial / parallel ports and a floppy disk controller, and the northbridge chipset 40 includes the microprocessor 26 and the memory card 30. And the data operation and control processing of the graphics card 34 as a whole. The Southbridge chipset 42 manages operations of internal devices and external devices connected by ISA, IDE, and USB.

In addition, a plurality of PS2 connection ports 44 and a scanner for connecting the cables of the keyboard 18 and the cables of the mouse device 20 to the positions in contact with one end of the main body 100 in the motherboard 200, respectively, A plurality of USB ports 46 for connecting cables from a device, a digital camera or a USB keyboard and mouse device, and a plurality of serial ports for connecting a serial cable from a serial mouse device or an external modem. 48) A plurality of parallel ports 50 are provided for coupling parallel cables from an external device such as a printer device.

In addition, the motherboard 200 has a sound processing circuit having a voice / sound processing function of a sound card coupled as an internal device in the circuit of the motherboard 200, and the external speaker 12 or the external A sound input / output port 52 for connecting to a sound reproducing apparatus or the like is installed.

In addition, the motherboard 200 includes a modem circuit 54 having an associated communication processing circuit including a modulation / demodulation circuit capable of converting / demodulating communication data transmitted and received through a general telephone line or a dedicated line. 200, and the modem circuit 54 is provided with a telephone connection port 54A and a line connection port 54B for connecting a general telephone line or a dedicated line.

In addition, a power connector 56 for connecting the power cable 14 is installed at one lower end of the motherboard 200, and near the installation position of the imaging camera 4 installed on the front side of the computer main body 100. A USB port 58 for connecting the imaging camera 4 is separately installed on the top of the motherboard 200 corresponding to the above.

On the other hand, the motherboard 200 is provided with a floppy data port 60 for connecting to the data port 8A of the floppy disk drive (8).

A liquid crystal A / D board 62 is installed below the floppy disk drive 8 and the CD-ROM disk drive 10 to control the display process of the liquid crystal monitor 2. The data port 62A is connected to the LCD monitor 2 through the data cable, the power port 62B is connected to the power connector 56, and the adjustment port 62C is connected to the key panel 6. Connected.

According to the present invention, peripheral components such as the microprocessor 26, the memory card 30, the graphics card 34, and the like are mounted in the horizontal direction on the motherboard 200, and the floppy disk drive 8 And since the CD-ROM disk drive 10 is also designed to be mounted in a horizontal direction with respect to the motherboard 200, it is possible to reduce the unnecessary internal space as much as possible to reduce the thickness of the desktop computer to within 6 centimeters (Cm) It becomes possible.

In addition, the slimmed desktop computer according to the present invention can be mounted on a wall or the like, and the carrying and installation thereof can be simplified.

On the other hand, the desktop computer according to the present invention can significantly reduce the thickness to within 6 centimeters, so that it is possible to mount a thin liquid crystal display monitor on the front of the main body while improving the margin for the width of the main body. The number of monitor inches of the display monitor can be greatly increased. Accordingly, as the number of inches of the display monitor is increased, the use width inside the main body becomes wider, and thus the peripheral components of the computer can be increased and mounted, thereby improving the expandability of the device.

According to the present invention as described above, the motherboard and the liquid crystal monitor is installed in the computer main body, the liquid crystal monitor is arranged in parallel on the front of the motherboard, while the peripheral components on the motherboard through the horizontal fastening slots Electrically connected, the electrical contact pins of the horizontal fastening slots are fitted in the vertical direction to the rear of the motherboard, and the electrical contact holes of the horizontal fastening slots are disposed parallel to the motherboard, so that the peripheral components As a parallel structure is connected to the motherboard, the thickness of the computer body is greatly reduced, so that transportation, installation, and management are convenient, and users can use it in a wider working environment. It works.

Claims (5)

In a desktop personal computer in which a motherboard and a liquid crystal monitor are installed in a computer main body, and a liquid crystal monitor is arranged in parallel on the front of the motherboard. Peripheral components are electrically connected to the motherboard via the horizontal fastening slots, and the electrical contact pins of the horizontal fastening slots are vertically inserted into the rear of the motherboard, and the electrical contact holes of the horizontal fastening slots A parallel structure of a desktop personal computer, characterized in that the peripheral components are connected in parallel to the motherboard via this slot. The desktop of claim 1, wherein the microprocessor, the memory card, and the graphics card are connected to the rear surface of the motherboard in parallel to each other or to one side of the motherboard via the horizontally fastening slots. Slim structure of a personal computer. The modem circuit of claim 1, wherein the motherboard comprises a sound processing circuit having a sound / sound processing function of a sound card and an associated communication processing circuit including a modulation / demodulation circuit capable of converting / demodulating communication data. Slimming structure of the desktop personal computer, characterized in that the integrally provided. The slimming structure of a personal computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein a hard disk drive is connected to the motherboard in parallel to a rear surface of the motherboard and disposed on one side of the motherboard. According to claim 1, wherein the image pickup camera is installed on the computer body located above the LCD monitor, the corresponding USB port is provided on the rear of the motherboard, the imaging camera is connected to the USB port via a cable. Slimming structure of desktop personal computer which we assume.

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