Patent ID: 8824137

Claim:
An electronic device housing device comprising: a housing; a plurality of slots that are arranged side by side inside the housing, the slots each housing an electronic device; a gas passage that guides a gas flowing into each of the slots in a direction across the slots; a connection substrate provided inside the housing to extend upright, the connection substrate being arranged to face the slots, the connection substrate including a connected portion to which a connecting portion of the electronic device housed in each of the slots is to be connected; a ventilation port provided at an end portion of the connection substrate, the ventilation port allowing the gas to flow into through the gas passage from each of the slots; and a fan that sucks the gas flowing into each of the slots into the ventilation port through the gas passage; and a carrier that carries the electronic device, the carrier being removably insertable into each of the slots to be housed in each of the slots, the carrier having a through hole provided at a position of each of side walls which serves as the gas passage, wherein the housing includes an opening amount control device that controls an amount of opening of a gas inlet port for the carrier, wherein the carrier each includes an open and close panel provided to be rotatable about a rotary shaft of the open and close panel, the gas inlet port is an opening formed by opening and closing of the open and close panel, and the opening amount control device includes a first opening amount adjustment member that engages with the open and close panel and that rotates the open and close panel by a preset rotational angle to adjust the amount of opening of the gas inlet port, and wherein the first opening amount adjustment member includes an angle defining portion with a distal end having a shape corresponding to the rotation angle of the open and close panel, and the angle defining portion is shaped differently in accordance with a position of each of the slots.