Patent ID: 6674651
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
An electronic equipment, comprising:an enclosure defining a child board housing part provided with an aperture on a side thereof; a mother board fixed to a bottom part of the enclosure; a first connection part fixed to the mother board and facing the child board housing part; a child board, which is inserted via the aperture in a substantially vertical attitude along a substantially horizontal direction to a temporary attachment position within the child board housing part; a second connection part provided at a lower edge of the child board, the second connection part mating and connecting with the first connection part by the movement of the child board at the temporary attachment position along a substantially vertical direction so as to reach a fully attached position; a guide provided so as to be freely movable along a substantially vertical direction between an upper position and a lower position within the child board housing part, the guide slidably mating with an upper edge part of the child board at the upper position and guiding the child board along a substantially horizontal direction to the temporary attachment position, movement from the upper position to event handler lower position causing the child board at the temporary attachment position to move along a substantially vertical direction to a fully attached position, and holding the upper edge part of the child board at the fully attached position; a rack gear fixed relative to the guide; and a rotating shaft having a pinion gear meshed with the rack gear, which is supported so as to be rotatable relative to the enclosure, and which by rotating in a prescribed direction causes the guide, via the pinion gear and the rack, to move from the lower position to the upper position, and which by rotating in a direction opposite the prescribed direction causes the guide to move from the upper position to the lower position.