Skeletal Frame Patents (Class 312/265.1)
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Patent number: 6808240Abstract: A frame structure for a switch cabinet includes at least four vertically extending rail profiles arranged in edges. At least one of the vertical rail profiles includes a cross section formed by a plurality of bent profile webs, the cross section of an envelope of at least one rail profile being configured to be rectangular. The at least one vertical rail profile is configured to be open, and at least one profile web extends longer than an edge length of the rectangle formed by the envelope and is double-walled.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: ISE Innomotive Systems Europe GmbHInventor: Heine Altena
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Publication number: 20040188363Abstract: A rack structure body for a machine includes a frame body provided at one of a front surface side and a back surface side of the rack structure body. The frame body includes a main frame part formed by bending and a sub frame part formed by bending. The sub frame part is installed inside of the main frame part. The frame body has a hollow structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Hideki Sonobe
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Patent number: 6776464Abstract: A switchgear cabinet including rectangular frameworks of frame members, wherein, in the region of the outer corner edges, free spaces are formed for the accommodation of angled edges of the double-wall covering members, which are juxtaposed each other. At least one covering member is configured as a cabinet door, which has hinges on the framework, which is pivotally mounted with hinges and which is closable and openable by closure members on the framework. If the covering members and the cabinet doors have an interior wall and an exterior wall, the formed cavity extending at least partially over the free space of the associated vertical frame member, in the case of the cabinet doors, in the region of the covered free space, the cavity receives hinged members on the one vertical side and closure members on the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Rittal RCS Communication Systems GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Samuel Klassen, Heiko Holighaus
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Patent number: 6773080Abstract: A bracket device for a track assembly. The bracket device includes a bracket member, a latch member and a retaining member. The bracket member includes a hook extended therefrom and adapted to connect with an assembling hole of a rack. The latch member includes a stop extended therefrom and movably received in a slot of the bracket member. The retaining member includes an engaging portion adapted to engage/disengage with/from an engaging portion of the latch member.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2002Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: King Slide Works, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, I-Ming Tseng, Chun-Chiang Wang
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Publication number: 20040119386Abstract: The present invention provides a telecommunications distribution frame 101. The distribution frame 101 is particularly intended to be installed in an outdoor environment inside a cabinet for making connections between subscribers and network equipment via cables such as telephone cables comprising a plurality of copper wire pairs. The telecommunications distribution frame 101 has a plurality of truss type fixing means 11, each of said fixing means 11 being designed to receive a terminal strip, the distribution frame also has a support 17, 18 carrying said plurality of fixing means 11. The support is mounted to turn about an axis of rotation OO′.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventor: Michel Guidez
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Patent number: 6742958Abstract: Components of and method for making a frame member framework having panel recesses accepting structural panels in a plane tangent to the exterior of the frame member. The tubes and fittings allow easy assembly of large structures. The panels secured within the panel recesses bear loads imposed on the structure and minimize torque at the fittings. The finished structure is streamlined, with flush junctions of all components. Alternative embodiments include panel recesses in angular or channeled shapes which act to secure the panels to the framework, and other panel securing attachment which are externally invisible on the completed structure. Panel securing means include screws, bolts, studs, pins, adhesives, welding and equivalents. End fittings are secured to frame members by any common and known ways. Frame members, fittings and panels may be made of any of a wide range of materials including metals, alloys, plastics, rubbers, wood, and composites.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Inventor: Richard D. Remmick
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Patent number: 6702125Abstract: A support frame for receiving external electrical devices, having a base frame on which two vertical supports are fastened, which are arranged parallel at a distance from each other and each of which has a first profiled leg. The first profiled legs face each other, project into the installation space formed by the supports and have at least one row of attachment receivers cut in a division pattern. In order to retrofit such a support frame for different fastening size systems, each one of the supports has at least one second profiled leg, which has a row of attachment receivers cut in the division pattern and which projects from the support facing away from the installation space. The division pattern of the first profiled leg is different from that of the second profiled leg. The supports are fastened on the base frame in two installation positions, which are rotated by 180° around the longitudinal axes of the supports.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Marc Hartel
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Patent number: 6695149Abstract: A technique for fastening a panel to an electronic cabinet frame involves inserting portions of rigid support members (e.g., rails) of the electronic cabinet frame into grooves defined by fasteners to attach the fasteners to the portions of the rigid support members of the electronic cabinet frame. The technique further involves positioning catches (e.g., latching members) of the panel adjacent catch members of the fasteners, and moving the panel toward the fasteners such that the catches of the panel engage with the catch members of the fasteners to fasten the panel to the electronic cabinet frame. Accordingly, no screws or other hardware is required to mount either the fasteners or the panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Gerald J. Cote, Albert Beinor, Ilhan Gundogan
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Patent number: 6688712Abstract: A modular unit forming a part of an air handling system unit being arranged to support a heat exchanger coil therein. The unit contains a three dimensional framework that includes one longitudinally extended beam that is removably connected at each end to opposed corners of spaced end frames. The framework contains spaces between adjacent beams that are closed by removable panels. Removing the beam and the adjacent panels allows ease of access to the coil as well as installation and removal of the coil from the modular unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: John Carlisle Adams, Michael W. Austin
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Publication number: 20040016708Abstract: An information handling system includes a rack operable to mount computer components therein. The rack includes multiple rack rails supported by a top support and a bottom support that define a rack space for housing components. The rack rails have both a first and second standard interface. The first standard interface facilitates the housing of components within a dedicated portion of the rack space while the second standard interface facilitates the housing of at least one component within a non-dedicated portion of the rack space. A component bracket is detachably coupled to a selected portion of the second standard interface of a rack rail. The component bracket supports a component within a portion of the non-dedicated portion of the rack space. The component bracket includes at least one hook and at least one latch mechanism that tool-lessly secures the component bracket to the second standard interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2002Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: Del Products L.P.Inventors: Terrence Q. E. Rafferty, Jason T. Runkle, Corey D. Hartman, Paul D. Higgins, Tiffany J. Williams
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Patent number: 6675976Abstract: A rack assembly includes a nineteen-inch sub-assembly coupled to a four-inch extension that comprises two substantially closed side panels adjacent to each other, two substantially open sides adjacent to each other, a closed top and bottom, a plurality of mounting flanges for attaching the extension to a nineteen-inch sub-assembly and a plurality of embossments for receiving mounting hardware for installing the sub-assembly and extension into a twenty-three-inch rack. The four-inch extension is formed not only to allow a nineteen-inch rack sub-assembly to be installed in a twenty-three-inch rack, but also is formed to conduct air exhausted from a side of the nineteen-inch sub-assembly towards a rear end of the twenty-three-inch rack.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: White Rock NetworksInventors: Joseph Steinman, Greg Lowe
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Publication number: 20040004418Abstract: A cabinet for supporting electronic equipment. The cabinet has a rigid internal assembly structure and a cladding kit. The internal assembly defines a cavity into which the electronic equipment can be fitted. The internal assembly structure has height, a plurality of posts, and at least two panels. Each of the panels has a plurality of recesses formed therein. At least one post includes mounting tabs positionable within the recesses formed within the panels for precisely locating the post with respect to the panels. The cladding kit has at least two post trims connected to the internal assembly structure and at least one panel connected to the post trims. Each of the post trims has a body member, a first connector and a second connector. The first connector and the second connector of the post trim cooperate to connect the post trim to the posts of the internal assembly structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Brendan Wyatt, Barry Kiernan
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Patent number: 6655533Abstract: A four-column rack including a first rack having a pair of upright columns connected by a first cross-member, a second rack having a pair of upright columns connected by a second cross-member. The first and second racks are connected by an adjustment member. The adjustment member has a first end attached to the first cross-member of the first rack and a second end attached to the second cross-member of the second rack.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures, Inc.Inventor: Anteneh Guebre-Tsadik
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Patent number: 6629614Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting an equipment housing such as a telecommunications equipment shelf to a rack, the mounting bracket comprising a bracket body for rigid attachment to the housing, a fastener for rigid attachment to the rack, and a damping member coupling the fastener to the bracket body. The damping member isolates the equipment within the housing from the rack such that earthquake vibration resistance is improved. The damping member is preferably an elastomeric material such as very high density silicone. It is preferably configured to preferentially absorb vibrations at resonant frequencies of the rack structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Nortel Networks LimitedInventor: Alan Jordan
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Patent number: 6615998Abstract: Fittings for mounting on frame members of a switchgear cabinet framework, the frame members having a free space towards the outside corner edge of the framework, which free space forms a receiver, which is closed towards the interior of the framework, is open towards the outside corner edge and is mirror-inverted relative to the diagonal of the frame member. The fittings have a mounting plate the cross-section of which is adapted to the cross-section of the receiver and which plate is connectable to the end profile side of the frame member. The mounting plate preferably has a central mounting bore. The mounting plate, in the longitudinal direction of the frame member, has a pre-determined width, which is preferably symmetrical to the mounting bore.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Rittal RCS CommunicationInventors: Samuel Klassen, Heiko Holighaus
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Patent number: 6615993Abstract: A slide interlock assembly for a rack including a first rod, a first mount bracket secured to a first stationary member of the rack and having a first guide for receiving one end of the rod, a second mount bracket, secured to a second stationary member of the rack and having a second guide for receiving a second end of the first rod, a first actuator bracket secured to a first slide member adjacent the first mount bracket, having a surface that is inclined relative to a sliding axis of the first slide member for engaging a first end of the first rod, and a second actuator bracket, secured to a second slide member, having a hole for receiving a second end of the first rod when the first slide member is extended.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Wolfram A. Rudiger
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Publication number: 20030150823Abstract: A system and method for mounting a device into a rack comprises a mounting shelf that is attached to the rack, a first bracket that is attached to a first side of the device, and a second bracket that is attached to a second side of the device, wherein the second side is located opposite to the first side, wherein the first bracket and the second bracket are substantially similar, and wherein the device, with the first bracket and the second bracket attached thereto, is slideably positioned into the mounting shelf and attached to the mounting shelf via the first bracket and the second bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Ronald P. Dean, Sean W. Tucker
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Patent number: 6605777Abstract: An electronic equipment frame has two side assemblies each formed of two separate configured corner support channel members rigidly connected by welding by a series of cross struts, and rigidly welded to separate top panel and bottom panel assemblies, with each corner support channel member having a deep, flat-bottomed, V-shaped central channel portion where the angled sidewalls extend to the same depth as the outer end walls of the corner support channel member. The respective ends of each corner support channel member also have extension length portions which permit extended length weld areas for rigidly connecting the respective top and bottom panel assemblies thereto.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Amco Engineering Co.Inventors: Thomas E. Anderson, Jerry L. Young
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Patent number: 6600656Abstract: A mountable computer system includes a primary system structure and a cover. The cover is mountable to a support structure and supports the primary system structure therein. The primary system structure includes one or more connectors for attaching cables to the system. The cover is adapted to enable mating between cables and the primary system structure when inserted therein. The cover and primary system structure are also adapted to enable translation of the primary system structure in the cover with cables attached. A method for accessing computer system internal components includes: disengaging a primary system structure from an inserted position in a cover; sliding the primary system structure to an extended position in the cover while maintaining connection to cables attached to the primary system structure; releasably locking the primary system structure in the extended position in the cover; and accessing internal components disposed on the primary system structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Mori, Christopher H. Frank
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Patent number: 6580030Abstract: A panel includes a sheet of metal folded to define an elongate main panel portion (100, 200) along the edges of which are a first longitudinal side flange (101, 201) and a first transverse end flange (103, 203). The first longitudinal side flange is along at least part of its length folded back towards the main panel portion (100, 200) and secured thereto to provide a tubular edge reinforcement of the panel. The first longitudinal side flange (101, 201) has a first longitudinal end which is secured to the first transverse end flange (103, 203). A portion (107) of the first longitudinal side flange (101) generally parallel to the main panel portion (100) has a longitudinal extension (115) which is folded towards the main panel portion (100) and is secured to a portion of the first transverse end flange (103) extending away from the main panel portion (100).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: APW Electronics LimitedInventor: David Horne
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Publication number: 20030107309Abstract: A slide assembly for slidably mounting a computer server unit to a rack. The slide assembly includes a stationary member and at least one slidable member slidably mounted thereto. A front bracket is mounted to a front end of the stationary member and a rear bracket is mounted to a rear end of the stationary member. Both the front and rear brackets include a plurality of dual-diameter mounting pins and a pair of spring elements having different lengths. The mounting pins are positioned within holes in the rack columns and one of the spring elements snaps behind the rack column to hold the slide assembly to the rack. If the holes in the rack columns have one diameter, then the mounting pins extend partially through the holes and contact a shoulder of the pin. In this orientation, the shorter spring element snaps behind the back column. For a larger diameter or square rack column hole, the mounting pins extend completely through the holes where the longer spring element snaps behind the rack column.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2001Publication date: June 12, 2003Inventor: Craig E. Lauchner
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Patent number: 6575657Abstract: A device for fastening of attachment elements, such as mounting rails, mounting plates, deposit plates and the like on a frame leg of a switchgear cabinet rack, wherein the frame legs are designed symmetrically in relation to their cross-sectional diagonal line and are aligned with the latter with the diagonal line of the rack. On the inside of the frame legs oriented toward the interior of the rack, the frame legs form a fastening receiver with two fastening profile sides which are disposed vertically in respect to each other and extend parallel to the facing outsides of the switchgear cabinet rack. The frame legs form system fastening receivers in the form of square or rectangular openings and fastening bores and make transitions into additional profile sides having corresponding rows of fastening receivers, which extend perpendicular to the facing exteriors of the switchgear cabinet rack.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1999Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Rolf Benner
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Patent number: 6561602Abstract: An equipment mounting rack is composed of a seismically sound skeleton structure having spaced vertical uprights supplemented by distinct spaced equipment mounting structures attached to that skeleton structure and extending along these vertical uprights and constituting side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. The distinct spaced equipment mounting structures may have elongate first sections extending along the spaced vertical uprights, and elongate second sections extending along these first sections and constituting side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. Cabinet walls may be attached to the skeleton structure, and the equipment mounting structures may constitute inside such cabinet walls side wall structures of a mounting rack interior space. The vertical uprights advantageously are reinforced by elongate partial enclosures that may avoid the need for a large number of weakening mounting holes in these uprights.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Hendry Mechanical WorksInventors: Richard W. Sevier, Dominic J. Louwagie
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Patent number: 6523918Abstract: A pivot mounting bracket (12) for a server rack (2) includes a bracket plate (18), a pivot member (20) and a clasp member (26), which are pivotally mounted to a pin (36). The pivot member (20) has two spaced apart mounting ears (34) for receiving the pin (36). Two clips (38) secure the pin (36) within the mounting ears (34). A slot (24) extends in the pivot member (20) for receiving a thumb screw (22). The clasp member (26) has a threaded hole (28) for receiving an end (30) of the thumb screw (22) to clamp the pivot member (20) and the clasp member (26) to the server rack frame (14). The clasp member (26) includes two locating tabs (32) which extend at right angles to a main body (33) of the clasp member (26) for inserting within mounting apertures (16) of the server rack frame (14) to locate the clasp member (26) and the mounting bracket (12) relative to the rack frame (14).Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Central Industrial Supply Company, Inc.Inventor: Julian S. Baiza
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Publication number: 20030034717Abstract: A computer case comprises plural horizontal beams and plural vertical beams connected to the horizontal beams to thereby define a space and two lateral sides delimiting the space. Plural horizontal mounting members are mounted to each lateral side, each mounting member comprising a horizontal row of engaging holes. Plural vertical mounting members are mounted to the horizontal mounting members that are mounted to a respective lateral side. Each vertical mounting member comprises two mounting sections extending along different planes that are not parallel or coincident to each other. The mounting sections are engaged with the horizontal row of engaging holes of the horizontal mounting members to thereby form a subspace that is adjustable in volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2001Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventor: Chun Chieh Yao
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Patent number: 6515225Abstract: An enclosure suitable for use in a telecommunications or data communications network includes a frame and a plurality of panels. The frame includes first and second upright frame members, an upper forward cantilevered frame portion including elongate side frame portions extending from the upright frame members substantially horizontally forwardly along opposite sides of the enclosure and an elongate transverse portion at the front, and an upper rearward cantilevered frame portion including elongate side frame portions extending from the upright frame members substantially horizontally rearwardly along opposite sides of the enclosure and an elongate transverse portion at the rear, the side frame portions being fixed directly or indirectly to the upright frame members. Similar lower forward and rearward cantilevered frame portions are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Cooper B-Line LimitedInventor: Colin Morgan Wright
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Publication number: 20030020382Abstract: An air handling system containing sections each having a framework made up of tubular structural elements defining each perpendicularly aligned openings each of which shares a common structural element with its neighbors. The openings are closed by panels that are latched into the openings. Said assemblies are installed around the perimeter of each rectangular opening. Each assembly includes a rigid plate having two bulb seals extending along opposite edges of the plate that are coextruded with the plate. The plate is mounted at about a 45° angle along an inside corner edge of each commonly shared structural element so that a seal on one side of the plate services one opening while the other seal services the adjacent opening. The ends of the seals are mitered and the plate is inserted into a slot formed in molded corner retainers that support the structural elements in assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Christian C. Herbeck, Michael W. Austin
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Publication number: 20030011289Abstract: A modular unit forming a part of an air handling system unit being arranged to support a heat exchanger coil therein. The unit contains a three dimensional framework that includes one longitudinally extended beam that is removably connected at each end to opposed coners of spaced end frames. The framework contains spaces between adjacent beams that re closed by removable panels. Removing the beam and the adjacent panels allows ease of access to the coil as well as installation and removal of the coil from the modular unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2001Publication date: January 16, 2003Applicant: Carrier CorporationInventors: John Carlisle Adams, Michael W. Austin
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Publication number: 20020185945Abstract: Cases, enclosures, or “road boxes” are custom designed and built using modular components whose lengths and/or heights are provided in multiples of the industry standard length EIA-U to allow compact housing of standard sized components and drawers within the enclosures. The stock materials used to construct the support frames which mount the components and the drawers designed to hold the accessories needed to operate the components are provided as modular elements having unit length dimensions clearly indicated to simplify building the enclosures at different, custom-designed lengths. The assembly of support frames and drawers is further simplified by interlocking elements by means of tongue-and-groove connections spaced to correspond to the same unit length dimensions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2001Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventor: Kenneth Hollebone
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Publication number: 20020171338Abstract: A support structure has a number of posts with flanges and slots formed in the flanges. The support structure also has a number of aprons with end tabs that are inserted into respective post flange slots. A gap defined by the apron end tabs and an edge of the apron creates an interference fit with a slot lip of the flange slot. The disclosed interlock of the aprons to the posts creates a stable support structure that has aesthetic value. The disclosed interlock further provides the capability of creating various support structures (e.g., shelving assemblies, workbenches, cabinets, storage assemblies).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventor: Brandon Robert Wetterberg
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Publication number: 20020172013Abstract: An arrangement for supporting an electronic equipment cabinet, and a method for supporting an electronic equipment cabinet which provide a more stable mounting for supporting devices, such as casters and seismic supports. The arrangement and method of supporting can be utilized with an electronic equipment cabinet having a rigid frame structure comprised of vertical and horizontal support members. The horizontal support members provide mounting surfaces to which supporting devices, such as casters, seismic supports, and the like, can be mounted to provide a stronger, more rigid mounting that is less susceptible to deflection and failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Applicant: PRIMA CORPORATIONInventor: Gary C. Chandler
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Publication number: 20020171339Abstract: A connector-mounting assembly comprises:Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Applicant: INFRA+Inventor: Dominique Masse
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Publication number: 20020171340Abstract: A cabinet for mounting electronic equipment having support members with recesses for routing electrical cable, a support member having a recess for routing cable and a method for routing electrical cable in an electronic equipment cabinet. The recess in the support member provides a convenient pathway for routing electrical cables to equipment mounted in the cabinet which facilitates conduit installation and minimizes exposer of the cables to damage during operation and servicing. The support members include horizontal and vertical members as well as connecting members having recesses for providing routing of cables from the horizontal to the vertical members. The support members may also be adapted for covering the recesses with trim pieces which conceal the recesses and the cables they contain.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Applicant: PRIMA CORPORATIONInventor: Gary C. Chandler
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Patent number: 6481918Abstract: Components of and method for making a tube and fitting framework having panel recesses accepting structural panels in a plane tangent to the tubes. The tubes and fittings allow easy assembly of large structures. The panels secured within the panel recesses bear loads imposed on the structure and minimize torque at the fittings. The finished structure is streamlined, with flush junctions of all components. Alternative embodiments include panel recesses in angular or channeled shapes which act to secure the panels to the framework, and other panel securing devices which are externally invisible on the completed structure. Panel securing devices include screws, bolts, studs, pins, adhesives, welding and equivalents. Fittings are secured to tubes by connectors which may engage the interior of the tube in known ways, or by use of O-rings or rubber flanges. Tubes, fittings and panels may be made of any of a wide range of materials including metals, alloys, plastics, rubbers, wood, and composites.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1999Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Inventor: Richard D. Remmick
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Publication number: 20020167250Abstract: A switchgear cabinet with a cuboid rack assembled from frame legs, wherein free spaces are formed in areas of the edges of the outer corners, for receiving folded edges of the panel elements meeting at the area. If at least the insides of the folded edges of the vertical panel elements are positioned at an angle of 45° with respect to the inside of the panel elements, then the outsides of the folded edges have a predetermined distance from the median line of the panel elements which meet each other in the area of the edge of the outside corner. Near the outer surfaces of the rack the inside surfaces of the panel elements rest directly on or by way of sealing elements on its frame legs. There is an increased security against vandalism in the area of all edges of the outer corners if the transition to the median line is symmetrically designed and if the panel elements and the cabinet doors are arbitrarily combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Inventors: Samuel Klassen, Heiko Holighaus
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Publication number: 20020162808Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting an equipment housing such as a telecommunications equipment shelf to a rack, the mounting bracket comprising a bracket body for rigid attachment to the housing, a fastener for rigid attachment to the rack, and a damping member coupling the fastener to the bracket body. The damping member isolates the equipment within the housing from the rack such that earthquake vibration resistance is improved. The damping member is preferably an elastomeric material such as very high density silicone. It is preferably configured to preferentially absorb vibrations at resonant frequencies of the rack structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2001Publication date: November 7, 2002Inventor: Alan Jordan
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Patent number: 6462940Abstract: A tower computer which includes a computer housing having a first bay with an access opening therein and a motherboard mounted in the bay opposite the access opening; a removable media drive mounted in the first bay which has a normal operating position in which access to at least a portion of the motherboard is blocked by the drive and a displaced position in which access is not blocked; the removable media drive being readily-displaceable between the normal operating position and the displaced position.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2000Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Brandon Swan Diaz, Kun-Chi Hsieh, Bo Siu-Fai
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Patent number: 6457787Abstract: A section-joining joint system for joining rigid sections in disassembable relation, enabling the provision of knock-down assemblies, such as frames, stands and the like, has a series of joints, each requiring the piercing of one of the joint members to form a projecting anchorage flap, and the application of a single tension member secured by the anchorage flap, the tension member being in the form of a bolt and nut in securing relation between the abutting joint members. Joints having as many as four members may be thus formed, which can include diagonal brace members. Carriage bolts having radius-profiled heads with squared inner head portions may be used as the bolting medium.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Inventor: Stanford M. Chicoyne
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Patent number: 6425488Abstract: An earthquake resistant frame structure which is shippable in a fully populated condition has a base member, a plurality of support members extending from the base member, a top portion disposed over the ends of the support members, a extension member disposed over the top portion, side stiffeners positioned perpendicularly between the support members, and a tie down assembly system positioned between the base member and a flooring surface. The extension member has a platform section and at least two legs depending substantially perpendicularly therefrom that slidingly engage the support members. The two legs have slots therethrough configured to receive fasteners that, when secured to support members, secure and maintain the extension member in position. First and second panels protrude laterally from the frame structure to form an extension area, from which a bracket hingedly depends. A variety of pin arrangements are used to prevent the removal of the bracket from the hinge.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Budy D. Notohardjono, John S. Corbin, Jr., Steven C. McIntosh, Howard P. Welz
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Patent number: 6425610Abstract: A control cabinet with a cabinet body, whose open front side can be successively closed by an inner door and a closing door presenting a closing device. The inner door can be fixed against the cabinet body at the top and at the bottom by means of a two-armed locking lever and the closing door can be fixed against the cabinet body by means of a locking bar. The closing door partly overlaps the inner door in the closing area. With mirror-symmetrical locking levers, no elements of the locking levers protrude over the free edge of the inner door in any position of the locking levers and the locking levers are easily operated.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Martina Köhler, Paul Root
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Patent number: 6419331Abstract: A frame structure of a playing machine includes upright posts located at corner positions of the entire frame and each having an outer face provided with two outer grooves facing outward. A transverse rod has two ends each defining a positioning hole for securing the transverse rod to the upright post by a positioning member. The transverse rod itself defines an insertion groove. The insertion grooves of two adjacent transverse rods align with each other for allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. Alternatively, a frame rod has a protruding plate inserted into the outer groove or the insertion groove, and has an insertion groove allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. The transverse rod is provided with a locking groove for allowing insertion of a press plate which co-operates with the lip of the transverse rod to clip a partition plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Paokai Electronic Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ming Shan Wei
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Patent number: 6409416Abstract: A rack for a switch cabinet, having frame pieces which in the floor area of the switch cabinet form a base frame surrounding an opening which can be closed by base panels. The base frame can be or is connected to a base. By simple, lengthened U-profile frame sections and corner elements configured as bent, cut pieces, a simple, economical base frame for the rack is created which requires little space and can be used for fastening the base panels directly without the need for additional structured supporting shapes.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wolfgang Reuter
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Patent number: 6386657Abstract: An enclosure system, for a wire shelf structure, that includes a plurality of generally rectangular resilient flat panels that snaps into the side openings of the wire shelf structure without tools and generally without the need for fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1999Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Inventor: Carrie Marie Frifeldt
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Patent number: 6382747Abstract: There is described a console structure frame for supporting one or more pieces of equipment, comprising a plurality of horizontally spaced vertically upright columns, a beam extending between the columns and equipment supporting members suspended from the beam.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Evans Consoles, Inc.Inventors: David Catta, Geoff Gosling, Robert Sirotich, Mac Slipek, Colin Blehm, Steve Van Beveren
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Patent number: 6362968Abstract: A stiffener for a printed circuit board where the stiffener is placed between the printed circuit board and a wall of the metal chassis in a computer system housing. The loaded printed circuit board may first be mounted on the stiffener, which, in turn, may then be mounted on the appropriate wall of the chassis along with the circuit board. Alternately, the stiffener may first be mounted on the appropriate chassis wall, and the circuit board may then be mounted on the stiffener. Additional circuit components may then be added onto the circuit board. The lies between the circuit board and the wall of the chassis on which the circuit board is being mounted. The back plane support provided by the stiffener may reduce damage to the conducting paths of the printed circuit board due to pressures exerted during component mounting, manufacture, transportation, etc. Additionally, a circuit board carrying densely populated electronic components may be easily mounted on or removed from the chassis without damage.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Lajara, Hassan Siahpolo, Ronald Barnes, Kenneth Kitlas
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Patent number: 6348656Abstract: A housing for receiving electrical and/or electronic built-in units, having a rack. The housing has vertical frame legs at least in comer areas, wherein an opening is formed between the two frame legs at a front of the rack, through which the housing interior is accessible. A blind frame has vertically extending profiled screening sections which cover the vertical profiled frame sections at least partially and is pivotally connected to the front of the rack. In order to increase the options for outfitting the switchgear cabinet and/or the technical switchgear equipment in the area of the opening at the front, a separate profiled function section extending in the linear profile direction is connected to the profiled screening section and has at least one function projection protruding toward the switchgear cabinet interior.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bodo Thielmann, Matthias Müller
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Publication number: 20020017839Abstract: A frame structure of a playing machine includes upright posts located at corner positions of the entire frame and each having an outer face provided with two outer grooves facing outward. A transverse rod has two ends each defining a positioning hole for securing the transverse rod to the upright post by a positioning member. The transverse rod itself defines an insertion groove. The insertion grooves of two adjacent transverse rods align with each other for allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. Alternatively, a frame rod has a protruding plate inserted into the outer groove or the insertion groove, and has an insertion groove allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. The transverse rod is provided with a locking groove for allowing insertion of a press plate which co-operates with the lip of the transverse rod to clip a partition plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: February 14, 2002Applicant: Paokai Electronic Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ming Shan Wei
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Patent number: 6338413Abstract: A rack assembly for mounting telecommunications equipment is provided which will accommodate both Network Bays and UFER Bays and which provides mounting strips secured at the front and rear comers of the upright channels to better accommodate mounting digital equipment in the rack assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2000Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Newton Instrument Company, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan T. Walter, Bryan C. Caudill, Gilbert W. Reece
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Patent number: 6315132Abstract: A rack for a switchgear cabinet with vertical and horizontal profiled frame sections, wherein two of the horizontal profiled frame sections are connected by a corner connector to at least one rack corner area. Two horizontal profiled frame sections are connected with each other, forming a corner angle and having a receptacle, which is open toward the exterior of the rack. The receptacle is symmetrical with respect to a bisecting line dividing an angle of the corner angle. A corner connector is fixed in place in the corner connector. The vertical profiled frame section can be fixed in place in the receptacle using a fastening shoulder of the corner connector. The vertical profiled frame section can selectively be designed symmetrical or asymmetrical with respect to the bisecting line of the angle of the receptacle. The corner connector has a compensating element for fixing the asymmetrical profiled frame section in place.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Marc Hartel, Walter Nicolai
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Publication number: 20010037988Abstract: In a basic rack, particularly for equipment cabinets, which has transverse profiles, depth profiles and vertical profiles connected by means of corner connectors, the profiles engageable on the fixing extensions of the corner connectors are fixed from the inside of the basic rack with the aid of one clamping means and one connecting element in a clamping fastening. In an advantageous development the transverse, depth and vertical profiles, as well as the associated fixing extensions of the corner connectors have a triangular construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2001Publication date: November 8, 2001Inventors: Josef Knab, Alexander Prinz, Siegfried Schneiderbauer, Klaus Neuwardt