TWM461293U - Holding structure for electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

A holding structure for electronic device is provided. The electronic device has a plurality of positioning holes, and the holding structure includes a tray, a base and an elastic element. One end of the elastic element is coupled with the tray, and the other end of the elastic element is coupled with the base. The electronic device is disposed on the tray, and the tray is disposed on the base. The tray includes at least one sliding portion, a first buckle portion and a plurality of elastic positioning portions. The elastic positioning portions are disposed corresponding to the positioning holes. The base includes at least one sliding slot, a second buckle portion and a plurality of blocking portions. The second buckle portion and blocking portions are respectively disposed corresponding to the first buckle portion and the elastic positioning portions, and the sliding portion is slidably mounted with the sliding slot. Furthermore, the electronic device slides along the sliding slot, in order to position the blocking portions to the positioning holes. Meanwhile, the first buckle portion mounts with the second buckle portion and the elastic element is in a compressing state.

Description

Fixing mechanism of electronic device

The present invention relates to a fixing mechanism, and more particularly to a fixing mechanism for an electronic device.

With the development and maturity of digitalization, optical discs, traditional hard disk (HDD) and solid state disk (SSD) have become common digital storage media on the market. Among them, the optical disc needs to be used together with an optical disk drive (ODD) for reading or writing optical disc data.

However, whether it is a CD player, a conventional hard disk, or a solid-state hard disk, it is fixed in such a way that it is locked to the casing through a plurality of screw holes and screws. For the user, each time you remove or replace a CD player, a traditional hard disk, or a solid-state hard disk, you must replace the case with an extra tool (such as a screwdriver) to replace it. This is time-consuming and laborious. And it is easy to damage the internal components of the CD player, the traditional hard disk, the solid state hard disk, or the computer during the replacement process, which is really troublesome.

Therefore, it is an important subject to provide a fixing mechanism for an electronic device that can be removed without additional auxiliary tools.

In view of the above problems, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a fixing mechanism for an electronic device that can be detached without additional auxiliary tools.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a fixing mechanism for an electronic device having a plurality of positioning holes. The fixing mechanism comprises a tray, a base and an elastic member, and the two ends of the elastic member are respectively fixed to the tray and the base. The tray carries the electronic device, and the tray includes at least one sliding portion, a first engaging portion and a plurality of elastic positioning portions. The elastic positioning portions are disposed corresponding to the positioning holes. The base carries a tray, and the base includes at least one sliding slot, a second engaging portion and a plurality of stops And the second engaging portion and the plurality of stopping portions are respectively disposed corresponding to the first engaging portion and the elastic positioning portions. The at least one sliding portion is slidably coupled to the at least one sliding slot.

The electronic device pushes the tray to move along a sliding slot in a first direction to the stop portions respectively pressing the elastic positioning portion, and positioning the elastic positioning portions in the positioning holes, and the first engaging portion is engaged with the second positioning portion The engaging portion, at this time, the elastic member is in a state of being stressed, and the electronic device and the tray are fixed to the base.

In an embodiment, the base further includes a pressing portion. When the pressing portion is pressed, the first engaging portion is separated from the second engaging portion, and the elastic member returns to the unstressed state to drive the tray to move along the sliding slot in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and the elastic positioning portion does not The stopper is pressed against the positioning hole.

In an embodiment, the elastic member is a spring or a spring.

In an embodiment, the pressing portion and the second engaging portion may be integrated into a single member.

In an embodiment, the side of the tray further includes at least one limiting portion, and the tray restricts the sliding portion from moving in the sliding slot by the limiting portion. The limiting portion is a hook groove or a limiting piece.

In an embodiment, the sliding portion is a screw hole with a screw, or the sliding portion is a sliding column.

In one embodiment, the tray has two sliding portions, and the base is correspondingly provided with two sliding grooves to ensure the sliding direction of the tray relative to the base.

In an embodiment, the electronic device has two positioning holes, and the tray is correspondingly provided with two elastic positioning portions.

In an embodiment, the combination of the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion includes a protrusion/opening, a protrusion/projection, a hook/slot or a rough/rough surface.

As described above, the fixing mechanism of the electronic device of the present invention drives the tray through the electronic device to buckle the tray and the base to complete the fixing operation of the electronic device. Through the elastic member disposed between the tray and the base, the thrust of the electronic device from the fixing mechanism when the fixing is released is provided, so that the electronic device can be disassembled without additional auxiliary tools.

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1‧‧‧Fixed institutions

12, 12a‧‧‧Tray

122‧‧‧Sliding section

124‧‧‧First engagement department

126‧‧‧Flexible Positioning Department

128a, 128b‧‧‧Limited

14‧‧‧Base

142, 142a, 142b‧‧‧ sliding slots

144‧‧‧Second Bonding Department

146‧‧‧ Pressing Department

148‧‧‧stop

16‧‧‧Flexible parts

2‧‧‧Electronic devices

22‧‧‧Positioning holes

A‧‧‧First direction

B‧‧‧second direction

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a first embodiment of a fixing mechanism of an authoring electronic device.

Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view of the tray and the base of the present invention.

3A is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the electronic device of FIG. 1 fixed to a fixing mechanism.

3B is a schematic cross-sectional view of the electronic device of FIG. 1 detached from the fixing mechanism.

4 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of a fixing mechanism of the authoring electronic device.

Hereinafter, a fixing mechanism of an electronic device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the related drawings, wherein the same elements will be described with the same reference numerals. And for ease of understanding, elements that are not directly related to the present creation will be omitted and not drawn.

It should be noted that the electronic device of the present invention is illustrated as an optical disk drive, but the structure can be applied to a traditional hard disk (HDD), a solid state hard disk (SSD), or any electronic device requiring maintenance and rapid replacement. It should be limited to the CD player.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 . FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of a fixing mechanism of the electronic device, and FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the tray and the base.

The present invention is a fixing mechanism 1 for an electronic device, and the electronic device 2 has a plurality of positioning holes 22, and the plurality of positioning holes 22 of the electronic device 2 of the present embodiment are exemplified by two positioning holes, but The positioning hole 22 is for fixing the electronic device 2 to the fixing mechanism 1, so the number of positioning holes is determined according to actual needs.

The fixing mechanism 1 includes a tray 12, a base 14 and an elastic member 16. The two ends of the elastic member 16 are respectively fixed to the tray 12 and the base 14 for providing elastic restoring force to push/pull the tray 12 in a first direction relative to the base 14. A moves (the direction of the arrow in the figure). In this embodiment, the elastic member 16 may be a spring, but the elastic member in other embodiments may also be a spring. The tray 12 carries the electronic device 2, and the base 14 carries the tray 12.

The tray 12 includes at least one sliding portion 122, a first engaging portion 124 and a plurality of elastic positioning portions 126. In this embodiment, the tray 12 has two elastic positioning portions 126 and two sliding portions 122, but this is not limit. The figure shows that the two sliding portions 122 are respectively screw holes and bolts, but the sliding portion of the embodiment may be a sliding column, that is, the sliding column extends downward from the bottom surface of the tray 12 and is restricted to move in the sliding groove 142. . The elastic positioning portions 126 are respectively disposed corresponding to the positioning holes 22 . The sliding portion 122, the first engaging portion 124 and the plurality of elastic positioning portions 126 can be integrally formed and integrated into a single A component.

The base 14 includes at least one sliding slot 142, a second engaging portion 144 and a plurality of stopping portions 148, and the sliding slot 142, the second engaging portion 144 and the stopping portion 148, the second engaging portion 144 and the stopping portion The 148 is disposed corresponding to the first engaging portion 124 and the elastic positioning portion 126 , and the sliding portion 122 is slidably coupled to the sliding groove 142 . Similarly, the sliding groove 142, the second engaging portion 144, and the plurality of stopping portions 148 may be integrally formed and integrated into a single member.

The base 14 of the embodiment has two sliding grooves 142a and 142b as an example, but the number and shape are not limited thereto. The tray 12 is slidably coupled to the sliding groove 142 of the base 14 by the sliding portion 122. In detail, the two sliding portions 122 of the tray 12 are respectively disposed on the sliding grooves 142a, 142b of the base 14 for defining movement with the guide tray 12 only in the direction of the sliding grooves 142a, 142b without offset.

In addition, although the first engaging portion 124 of the present embodiment is exemplified by an opening, the second engaging portion 144 is exemplified by a projection, but can be replaced with each other. In other embodiments, the combination of the first engaging portion 124 and the second engaging portion 144 may be a protrusion/projection, a hook/card slot, a rough surface/rough surface, but not limited thereto.

It should be noted that the number of the positioning hole 22, the elastic positioning portion 126 and the stopping portion 148 need to cooperate with each other so that when the electronic device 2 is pushed into the tray 12 to move the tray 12 toward the base 14, the stop portion can be used. The elastic positioning portion 126 is pressed against the elastic positioning portion 126 to position the elastic positioning portion 126 to the positioning hole 22 to fix the electronic device 2 to the tray 12.

In addition, the side of the tray 12 of the embodiment further includes at least one limiting portion, and preferably, the tray 12 has two limiting portions 128a, 128b. The purpose of providing the limiting portions 128a, 128b is to further limit the path in which the tray 12 moves relative to the base 14. In detail, the limiting portions 128a, 128b may be disposed, for example, on the edge of the tray 12 corresponding to the base 14. In other words, the limiting portions 128a, 128b are disposed at the junction of the tray 12 and the base 14, and the shape of the base 14 is better. Therefore, the tray 12 can restrict the sliding portion 122 in the sliding grooves 142a, 142b by the limiting portions 128a, 128b. Move in the first direction A. The limiting portion 128a of the embodiment is a limiting slot and the limiting portion 128b is a limiting piece, but the shape, the number and the setting position thereof are not limited thereto.

Please refer to FIG. 3A and FIG. 3B , which are schematic cross-sectional views of the electronic device of FIG. 1 fixed and separated in the fixing mechanism, respectively. As will be described in detail below, after the tray 12 carries the electronic device 2, the tray 12 moves along the sliding slot 142 to position the elastic positioning portion 126 in the positioning hole of the electronic device 2, and the first engaging portion 124 is engaged with the second engaging portion 144 to fix the electronic device 2 to the base 14. .

Referring to FIG. 3A , firstly, the tray 12 is pushed by the electronic device 2 to move the tray 12 along the sliding slot 142 , and the stopping portions of the base 14 (not shown) respectively press the elastic positioning portion 126 toward the electronic device 2 . The elastic positioning portion 126 is bent to be positioned in a positioning hole (not shown) of the electronic device 2.

It should be noted that "the electronic device 2 pushes the tray 12 to move along the sliding groove 142" means that the tray 12 moves forward or backward along the track direction of the sliding groove 142 through the sliding portion 122.

Next, the electronic device 2 is continuously pushed to engage the first engaging portion 124 of the tray 12 with the second engaging portion 144, and the elastic member 16 is placed in a stressed state (stretched state). After the first engaging portion 124 is engaged with the second engaging portion 144 , the electronic device 2 and the tray 12 are fixed to the base 14 . In short, the electronic device 2 can be fixed to the tray 12 through the elastic positioning portion 126, and the tray 12 can be further pushed through the first engaging portion 124 to be engaged with the second engaging portion 144 to fix the tray 12 to the base 14. .

In addition, the base 14 of the embodiment further includes a pressing portion 146. Preferably, the partial pressing portion 146 protrudes outward to facilitate the user to press, thereby causing the electronic device 2 to be disengaged from the fixing mechanism. The pressing portion 146 and the second engaging portion 144 can be integrally formed and integrated into a single member.

When the pressing portion 146 is pressed ( FIG. 3B ), the first engaging portion 124 is separated from the second engaging portion 144 , that is, the second engaging portion 144 is disengaged from the first engaging portion 124 . At this time, the elastic member 16 will return to the unstressed state, and the elastic recovery force drives the tray 12 to move along the sliding grooves 142a, 142b in the second direction B opposite to the first direction A (arrow direction). At this time, the elastic positioning portion 126 is not pressed by the stopper portion, and the elastic positioning portion 126 is bounced away from the electronic device 2 to be separated from the positioning hole 22, and the electronic device 2 can be separated from the fixing mechanism 1.

4 is a schematic view of a second embodiment of a fixing mechanism of the authoring electronic device. The difference from the foregoing embodiment is that the electronic device 2 of the embodiment has four positioning holes 22 (not shown), and the tray 12a is correspondingly provided with four elastic positioning portions 126. Set up four positioning holes and four The advantage of the elastic positioning portion is that the electronic device 2 and the tray 12a can be positioned more firmly and surely by positioning on both sides. In addition, the remaining components and the connection relationship between the components are the same as those of the foregoing embodiment, and thus will not be described again. The tray 12a of the present embodiment is wider than the tray 12 of the first embodiment, and the width of the tray can be adjusted according to actual needs.

In summary, the fixing mechanism of the electronic device of the present invention drives the tray through the electronic device to buckle the tray and the base to complete the fixing operation of the electronic device. An elastic member is further disposed between the tray and the base. When the user wants to disassemble the electronic device, the first engaging portion of the tray needs to be separated from the second engaging portion of the base, and the restoring force of the elastic member can be used to withdraw the electronic device and separate from the fixing mechanism. With the above configuration, it is possible to provide the purpose of disassembling the electronic device without additional auxiliary tools.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of this creation shall be included in the scope of the appended patent application.

12‧‧‧Tray

122‧‧‧Sliding section

124‧‧‧First engagement department

126‧‧‧Flexible Positioning Department

128a, 128b‧‧‧Limited

14‧‧‧Base

142, 142a, 142b‧‧‧ sliding slots

144‧‧‧Second Bonding Department

146‧‧‧ Pressing Department

148‧‧‧stop

16‧‧‧Flexible parts

Claims (10)

A fixing mechanism for an electronic device, the electronic device having a plurality of positioning holes, the fixing mechanism comprising: a tray carrying the electronic device, the tray comprising at least one sliding portion, a first engaging portion and a plurality of elastic positioning portions The elastic positioning portions are disposed corresponding to the positioning holes; a base that carries the tray, the base includes at least one sliding slot, a second engaging portion and a plurality of stopping portions, the at least one sliding portion being slidably coupled to the The at least one sliding slot, the second engaging portion and the stopping portions respectively correspond to the first engaging portion and the elastic positioning portions; and an elastic member, the two ends of which are respectively fixed to the tray and the base The tray can be moved in a first direction along the sliding slot to the stop portions to respectively press the elastic positioning portions, and the elastic positioning portions are positioned on the positioning holes, the first engaging portion Engaged in the second engaging portion, and the elastic member is in a stressed state. The fixing mechanism of claim 1, wherein the base further comprises a pressing portion, the first engaging portion is separated from the second engaging portion when the pressing portion is pressed, and the elastic member is returned to the The tray is driven to move along the sliding slot in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and the elastic positioning portions are separated from the positioning holes by being not pressed by the stops. The fixing mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the pressing portion and the second engaging portion are integrated into a single member. The fixing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member is a spring or a spring. The fixing mechanism of the first aspect of the invention, wherein the side of the tray further comprises at least one limiting portion, the tray restricting movement of the sliding portion in the sliding slot by the limiting portion. The fixing mechanism of the fifth aspect of the invention, wherein the limiting portion of the tray is a hook groove or a limiting piece. The fixing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the sliding portion is a screw hole matching screw, or the sliding portion is a sliding column. The fixing mechanism of claim 1, wherein the tray has two sliding portions, and the base is correspondingly provided with two sliding grooves. The fixing mechanism of claim 1, wherein the electronic device has two positioning holes, and the tray is correspondingly provided with two elastic positioning portions. The fixing mechanism of claim 1, wherein the combination of the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion comprises a protrusion/opening, a protrusion/projection, a hook/card slot or a rough surface/ Rough surface.