US 11,864,340 B2
Rack for storing electrical equipment
Hisahiko Narukawa, Komaki (JP); Takayuki Yokochi, Osaka (JP); and Shinsuke Sato, Komaki (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/380,537.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-123516 (JP), filed on Jul. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0022338 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. H05K 7/18 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/18 (2013.01) [H05K 5/0226 (2013.01); H05K 5/03 (2013.01); H05K 7/1488 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rack for storing electrical equipment, comprising:
a front surface that has a front door that covers a front door opening;
a horizontal frame assembly extending in a horizontal direction above the front door opening; and
a ceiling plate extending rearward from the horizontal frame assembly and being provided with a ceiling plate opening;
wherein the horizontal frame assembly includes (i) an intermediate frame member and (ii) a connecting member arranged at an end of the intermediate member,
wherein the connecting member is movably attached to the rack and is movable between (i) an open position in which a space exists beside the intermediate frame member, the space being continuous with the front door opening and the ceiling plate opening, and (ii) a closed position in which the space is blocked, and
wherein, in a state in which the front door is in an open state and the connecting member is in the open position, an elongate object extending along a longitudinal axis can simultaneously pass, in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, through the front door opening and the space into the ceiling plate opening.