CN1494082A

CN1494082A - Front panel clamping and buckling method

Info

Publication number: CN1494082A
Application number: CNA021350701A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈丽萍
Original assignee: Hongfujin Precision Industry Shenzhen Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hongfujin Precision Industry Shenzhen Co Ltd; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd
Priority date: 2002-10-30
Filing date: 2002-10-30
Publication date: 2004-05-05

Abstract

A panel fastening method for a casing is disclosed. A pair of arc slide slots symmetrical to the central point of the front plate is made on the front plate of casing. The symmetrical ends of said two arc slide slots have a notch made inward. Said front plate has also two locating holes outside the slide slots. Said panel has a pair of fastening posts, which is perpendicular to the panel, and slide in said slide slot, and has a hook body at its end for matching with said notch of slide slot. Said panel has also two locating bosses relative to said locating holes on the front plate of casing.

Description

Front panel clamping and buckling method

[technical field]

The present invention relates to a kind of front panel clamping and buckling method that panel and housing are fastened of being applied to.

[technical background]

The data access of equipment such as personal computer or server (as Winchester disk drive) is fixed by a metal shell usually; so that firmly assemble this data access on equipment; and these equipment also need be provided with a panel usually at the outside surface of this metal shell; guaranteeing closed dust effect, and keep the perfect clean and tidy outward appearance of this device product to equipment.

The stationary installation of tradition data access panel normally secures to this panel on the data access housing by the structure of screw locking, as in No. the 88209964th, the Taiwan patented claim announcement is arranged promptly, yet, this mode structure more complicated of reaching buckle by screw, and when mounting or dismounting, also need operate and to realize the mounting or dismounting action by aid, extremely inconvenient, and in the time of assembling, waste man-hour and manpower, increase cost on foot.In addition, if adopt the hot melting way fixed panel, then can't dismantle between panel and the housing and separate, when one of panel or housing are damaged when needing to change, whole housing makes up with panel and all must be replaced.

[summary of the invention]

Technical matters to be solved by this invention is to provide a kind of front panel clamping and buckling method of card button easy to assembly.

The scheme that solves this technical problem be the present invention utilize an integrated circuit board buckle structure with a panel slidably buckle be combined on the data access housings such as hard disk, described panel fastener structure comprises a housing and a described panel, has an imaginary central point on the front face of this housing, offer a pair of arc chute that is centrosymmetric around this central point on this front face, this is to offering formation one breach around the end that this central point is centrosymmetric to the inboard of two chutes on the chute, also offer two pilot holes on this front face, and be located at this outside respectively chute; This panel has the button column body of a pair of vertical this panel, and this button column body can corresponding slide in the chute of this housing, and its end extends a coupler body to vertical this button column body of breach direction that should the housing upper hopper chute.On this panel pilot hole that should housing is also convexed with two locating convex blocks in addition; After the button column body of this panel rotated engaging along this to arc chute, the coupler body dogging of this button column body was on the front face of this housing, and this locating convex block location is sticked in this pilot hole.

Distortion as technical scheme of the present invention, can also adopt following design proposal: the chute of offering pair of parallel on the front face of described housing replaces described arc chute, and offer breach in the equidirectional end of this chute, and this panel has the button column body of the coupler body that can pass described breach in the correspondence position setting, and further feature is identical with feature in the foregoing technical scheme.

In technical scheme of the present invention, being clasped of pilot hole finished the assembling of panel and housing smoothly on the relative rotational slide that panel in the panel fastener structure can be by button column body and housing upper hopper chute, the dogging effect of coupler body and locating convex block and the housing, and is convenient to change dismounting.

The technique effect that the present invention played also be the position of the pilot hole on the front face of described housing be opened in this on the opposing direction of chute tool breach one side.In some cases, the structure of panel is very thin, sometimes also very fragile, and in order to obtain consideration attractive in appearance or otherwise, selecting on material or the size, can not avoid above-mentioned situation, like this with regard to the button column body that makes this panel easily buckle in conjunction with in bend fracture because of stressed, and after adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, in the buckle cohesive process, this locating convex block is with after the front face of housing contacts, this panel is with slight curving distortion, because the acting force of locating convex block and this button column body exists, and since the position of the pilot hole on the front face of housing be opened in this to the offering on the opposing direction of breach one side of chute, so this flexural deformation will make on the coupler body pointing direction that is positioned at the button column body panel to avoid with direction that this coupler body contacts on bending.Thereby making that even the size of panel is thiner, material is relatively more fragile, also is difficult for the bending fracture.

[description of drawings]

The invention will be further described in conjunction with the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is the three-dimensional exploded view of panel fastener structure.

Fig. 2 is the synoptic diagram of panel fastener structural group process of assembling.

Fig. 3 is the three-dimensional combination figure that utilizes the panel fastener structure of front panel clamping and buckling method assembling of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is the enlarged drawing of IV part among Fig. 3.

[embodiment]

The panel fastener structure applications combines with buckle between its panel in data access (as hard disk etc.) housing, be particularly useful for being fixed between server hard disc frame and hard disk panel, present embodiment promptly describes as example, certainly its range of application is not limited to this, other similar housing also can use this kind mode to engage with snap-in structure between panel, and for example register face combines etc. with buckle between the computer housing front face.

See also Fig. 1, the panel fastener structure comprises a housing 10 and a panel 20, wherein this housing 10 is used for fixing data access such as a hard disk (figure does not show), has an imaginary central point 13 on its front face 11, offer a pair of arc chute 15 that is centrosymmetric around this central point 13 on this front face 11, promptly this, will overlap with another chute behind these central point 13 Rotate 180 degree a chute in the chute 15.This is to offering a breach 17 around the end that central point 13 is centrosymmetric on the chute 15, this breach 17 can be offered formation to two chutes, 15 inboards, also can offer formation to two chutes, 15 outsides, in the present embodiment, this two breach 17 is for to offer formation to two chutes, 15 inboards.Also offer pilot hole 19 (pilot hole 19 herein can be set as the location pit certainly) on this front face 11, this pilot hole 19 can be one, also can be a plurality of, and its optimum position should with this to chute 15 on the opposing direction of tool breach 17 1 sides, this pilot hole 19 has two in the present embodiment, and is located at this respectively to chute 15 outsides.

The button column body 21 of a pair of vertical this panel 20 of tool on the medial surface of this panel 20, this button column body 21 can corresponding slide in a pair of chute 15 of this housing 10, its end extends a coupler body 23 to the direction of breach 17 that should housing 10 upper hopper chutes 15, in the present embodiment, this extends for vertical this button column body 21 in opposite directions to coupler body 23, if this to the breach 17 of chute 15 for to offer formation to the outside of two chutes 15, then this that coupler body 23 is vertical this button column body 21 is opposing to extending.This coupler body 23 can pass this breach 17 to chute 15 when this panel 20 is assembled with housing 10.On this panel 20 pilot hole 19 that should housing 10 is convexed with locating convex block 25, the pilot hole 19 of its quantity and this housing 10 is suitable, can cooperate with the pilot hole 19 of this housing 10 and size should make this panel 20 and housing 10 reach when cooperating.

Please consult Fig. 2 to Fig. 4 simultaneously, during assembling, at first make panel 20 form certain angle with respect to this housing 10, make the breach 17 of coupler body 23 these housing 10 upper hopper chutes 15 of aligning of the button column body 21 on this panel 20, make this button column body 21 and coupler body 23 thereof pass this breach 17 then, rotate this panel 20 then, make the button column body 21 of this panel 20 slide into the other end to chute 15 along this, this moment this coupler body 23 with dogging on the front face 11 of housing 10, and this locating convex block 25 will be sticked in the pilot hole 19 of housing 10, thereby this panel 20 is fastened on this housing 10, finishes assembling.

In the process of this panel 20 of assembling rotation, the button column body 21 of this panel 20 slides along the chute 15 of this housing 10, after the locating convex block 25 of this panel 20 contacts the front face 11 of housings 10, will make this panel 11 that slightly flexural deformation is arranged, this distortion will occur in 25 of this two locating convex blocks and make this panel 20 slightly to housing 10 direction bendings, crooked arc leans nearly housing 10, since adopt in the present embodiment position with pilot hole 19 be opened in this to the method on the opposing direction of chute 15 tool breach 17 sides, pilot hole 19 positions are arranged on this to chute 15 outsides, the coupler body 23 of this button column body 21 then extends in opposite directions breach 17 that should chute 15 and points to the inboard of two chutes 17, so the slightly deformed of this panel 20 can avoid the coupler body 23 of this button column body 21 inconsistent with the front face 11 of housing 10, thereby avoid this button column body 21 to be subjected to bigger external force as far as possible and produce stressed fatigue or stress is concentrated.So the micro-deformation of this panel fastener structure mainly is created on this panel 20, and is created on a small quantity on the button column body, thereby makes this panel fastener structure have strength structure preferably.

If the position of this pilot hole 19 is at this homonymy to tool breach 17 sides of chute 15, promptly be located at this inboard in the present embodiment to chute 15, then in above-mentioned assembling process, after this panel 20 is subjected to the jacking force of locating convex block 25, flexural deformation slightly will be to the direction bending away from these housing 10 front faces 11, its arc of curvature surely will be slightly away from this front face 11, and make this panel that trend away from front face 11 be arranged, and the coupler body 23 of this make-up cylinder 21 extends to the inside in opposite directions, so in this case, the flexural deformation of this panel 20 certainly will will be inclined to compressing and be touched this coupler body 23, cause this button column body 21 stressed, be easy to generate stress at the root of this button column body 21 like this and concentrate, and if often dismounting, also be easy to generate bending fatigue, these all will cause the structural strength of this panel fastener structure impaired.Other situation in like manner can be analyzed and reach a conclusion, promptly preferred plan be position with pilot hole be opened in this on the opposing direction of tool breach 17 1 sides of chute 15.

A kind of distortion as the panel fastener structure, if the locating convex block 25 on pilot hole on the housing 10 19 (or location pit) and the panel 20 is exchanged, promptly on this housing 10, locating convex block is set and on this panel correspondence pilot hole (or location pit) is set, can reach the snap fit effect of last embodiment equally.

As the distortion of the another kind of panel fastener structure, if this is parallel offering to chute, and offer breach, and this panel is provided with the button column body of tool coupler body in correspondence position in equidirectional end, can realize equally that panel is slidingly fastened is fixed on the housing.

Claims

1. front panel clamping and buckling method is used for a panel fastener is combined in the front face of a housing, it is characterized in that:

On described housing front face, offer a pair of chute, and offer one first location division at least;

A pair of button column body and at least one second location division are set on the described panel, and this button column body can pass from the head end of this chute and card is buckled in the end of this chute;

This button column body is passed and card is buckled in the end of this chute from the head end of this chute;

After the button column body for the treatment of this panel was slidingly fastened to chute along this, this first location division just engaged the location mutually with this second location division.

2. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: before this chute head end passes, offer formation one breach in this head end portion to chute at this button column body.

3. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that: terminal vertical this button column body of a pair of button column body of described panel extends a coupler body, this coupler body can pass from this breach, pass and after card was buckled in the end of this chute, this coupler body dogging was on the medial surface of the front face of this housing from the head end of this chute at the button column body.

4. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: this first location division is a pilot hole, and this second location division is a location projection, and after the buckle combination, this locating convex block locator card is combined in this pilot hole.

5. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: this first location division is a location projection, and this second location division is a pilot hole, and after the buckle combination, this locating convex block locator card is combined in this pilot hole.

6. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: this is that arc chute also is centrosymmetric around an imaginary central point to chute, centrosymmetric one section offers breach on this chute, during assembling, the button column body of this panel slips into the end that rotation slides to chute from tool breach end and finishes snap engagement.

7. front panel clamping and buckling method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: this is offered for being parallel to each other chute, and offers breach in equidirectional end, and the button column body of this panel slips into the parallel other end that slides to chute from tool breach one end and finishes the buckle combination.