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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2005
Masayuki Okoshi, Matsumoto, JP;
Akira Momose, Shiojiri, JP;
Masayuki Okoshi, Matsumoto, JP;
Akira Momose, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A casing for electronic device having a casing body for housing an electronic device and a foot part provided to be movable forward to and backward from a surface of the casing body and adapted to adjust inclination of the electronic device, the casing body has a boss that is formed to protrude on the inner surface of the casing body and in which a hole connecting the inside and outside of the casing body is formed, and the foot part has a grounding part exposed from the casing for an electronic device and abutted against an installation target surface and a shaft part housed within the boss and having a screw groove formed on its outer circumferential surface. A recess part is formed at a part of the screw groove of the shaft part, and on the inner surface of the boss, a screw thread that engages with the screw groove of the shaft part and extends in a circumferential direction of engagement without overlapping a circumference of the hole as viewed from the axial direction of movement of the foot part, and a protrusion that fits in the recess part when the shaft part turns by a predetermined quantity in relation to the inner surface of the boss, are formed.