Patent ID: 6227632
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A device rack and computer mainframe housing arrangement comprising:a computer mainframe housing, said computer mainframe housing comprising a receiving hole at a front side wall thereof, three inside friction flanges respectively disposed along top and two opposite lateral sides of said receiving hole, and an outside coupling flange disposed along a bottom side of said receiving hole; anda device rack pivoted to said computer mainframe housing and movable into and out of the receiving hole in said computer mainframe housing, said device rack comprising a shell, a front panel mounted on said shell, a springy retaining hook, and a plurality of computer peripheral apparatus holders respectively mounted in said shell to hold a respective computer peripheral apparatus, said front panel comprising a bottom coupling flange pivoted to the outside coupling flange at said computer mainframe housing, a top insertion hole formed in a middle portion near a top side of said front panel and a plurality of back hooks, said shell comprising pairs of vertical sliding tracks symmetrically formed on two opposite lateral side walls thereof, and a plurality of hook holes respectively formed on two front mounting flanges thereof and engageable with the back hooks of said front panel, said computer peripheral apparatus holders each having two side rails respectively inserted into the pairs of vertical tracks in said shell, said springy retaining hook being mounted in the insertion hole on said front panel for locking said device rack to said computer mainframe housing after said device rack having been moved into the receiving hole.