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Face panel anchoring apparatus

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-11-16
INVENTEC CORP
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[0005] In view of the aforesaid problems, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a face panel anchoring apparatus that has a simplified structure and makes repairs and maintenance of the host more convenient The face panel may be swiveled relatively to the computer chassis to open or close the front side of the host case. Hence there is no need to completely remove the face panel from the computer chassis. During maintenance of the computer, the possibility of loss or damage to the face panel decreases significantly.
[0007] The face panel of the invention is coupled with the chassis in a sliding and pivotal manner. Hence by moving the face panel horizontally and swiveling the face panel, the opening of the chassis may be exposed to facilitate repairs and maintenance operations without completely removing the face panel from the chassis. The repairs and maintenance of the invention are more convenient.

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During maintenance of the computer, the possibility of loss or damage to the face panel decreases significantly.

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[0014] Referring to FIGS. 2 through 7, the face panel anchoring apparatus according to the invention includes a chassis 10, a pair of coupling elements 20 and a face panel 30.

[0015] The chassis 10 is to contain various electronic components of a server computer, such as a motherboard, interface cards and data storage devices (not shown in the drawings). The chassis 10 is loaded into a cabinet (not shown in the drawings) to form the server computer.

[0016] The chassis 10 has a base plate 11 and two side plates 12 that are vertically located on two opposite sides of the base plate 11 to form a containing area (not labeled). The chassis 10 has an opening 13 on the front side that may be divided by a plurality of partitions to form housing troughs to hold the data storage devices such as hard disk drives through the opening 13. The internal structure of the chassis 10 is known in the art, thus details are omitted hereinafter.

[0017] The pair of coupling elements 20 have a plate shaped ...

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A face panel anchoring apparatus includes a chassis, two coupling elements and a face panel. The chassis has a base plate and two side plates, to form a loading area, and an opening on one side. The two coupling elements are located on two sides of the opening and have respectively a sliding groove parallel with the base plate. The face panel has two guiding struts corresponding to the two sliding grooves to be slid and pivotally coupled thereon. Hence the face panel may be moved horizontally or swiveled relative to the base seat, to open or close the opening of the chassis.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus to anchor a face panel to a computer chassis, and particularly to a face panel anchoring apparatus that is simply structured and easy to mount a face panel to a chassis or to remove the face panel from the chassis. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] A conventional computer chassis is usually coupled with a removable face panel on the front side. When data storage device requires maintenance, the face panel may be removed to unload the data storage device such as a floppy disk drive, hard disk drive and tape drive from the front side of the chassis without removing the chassis from the server cabinet. [0003] To further simplify the removing operation of the face panel, the general practice is to adopt latches on the front side of the computer chassis. FIG. 1 illustrates a face panel 1 mounted to a chassis 2 with latches. The face panel 1 has a plurality of first latch elements 3 on two sides, mating second la...

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IPC IPC(8): A47B88/00
CPCG06F1/181
Inventor CHANG, LIN-WEI
Owner INVENTEC CORP
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