Circuit board testing device and chassis for same

The subject matter herein generally relates to a circuit board testing device and chassis used in the circuit board testing device.

After being assembled, circuit boards need to be tested to ensure quality. Some tests are applied to a front surface of the circuit board while other tests need to make contact with other points located on a back surface of the motherboard. When being tested, the circuit board is usually brought into contact with a plurality of fittings (such as power source, hard disk drive or heat sink) to identify whether the circuit board works properly.

Implementations of the present technology will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the attached figures.

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of an exemplary embodiment of a circuit board testing device.

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the circuit board testing device of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 is an isometric view of a cooling member of the device of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 is a side view of the cooling member and a strut of the device of FIG. 1 .

It will be appreciated that for simplicity and clarity of illustration, where appropriate, reference numerals have been repeated among the different figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements. In addition, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the exemplary embodiments described herein. However, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the exemplary embodiments described herein can be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, methods, procedures, and components have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the related relevant feature being described. The drawings are not necessarily to scale and the proportions of certain parts may be exaggerated to better illustrate details and features. The description is not to be considered as limiting the scope of the exemplary embodiments described herein.

Several definitions that apply throughout this disclosure will now be presented.

The term “substantially” is defined to be essentially conforming to the particular dimension, shape, or other feature that the term modifies, such that the component need not be exact. For example, “substantially cylindrical” means that the object resembles a cylinder, but can have one or more deviations from a true cylinder. The term “comprising” means “including, but not necessarily limited to”; it specifically indicates open-ended inclusion or membership in a so-described combination, group, series and the like.

FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a circuit board testing device 1 .

The circuit board testing device 1 can include a chassis 10 , a testing unit 60 , and a control unit 40 . The testing unit 60 and the control unit 40 are mounted to the chassis 10 .

The chassis 10 can include a bottom frame 150 , a side frame 160 , and a back plate 140 . The side frame 160 is perpendicularly connected to an edge of the bottom frame 150 . The back plate 140 is fixed to the side frame 160 . The back plate 140 can include two installation parts (not shown) through which a circuit board 30 can be installed to the back plate 140 , the two installation parts can be symmetrically distributed on the back plate 140 . Since screw holes on the circuit board 30 are usually symmetrically distributed, the circuit board 30 can be installed to the back plate 140 through a combination of installation parts and screw holes, tests can be carried out on some points located on a front surface of the circuit board 30 , and then the circuit board 30 can be turned over and installed to the back plate 140 through a combination of the same installation parts and screw holes, so that other tests can be carried out on other points located on a back surface of the circuit board 30 .

A plug member 50 can be slidably mounted to the bottom frame 150 . The testing unit 60 can be fixed to the plug member 50 so that the testing unit 60 can slide along the bottom frame 150 together with the plug member 50 . This enables adjustment of the relative location of the testing unit 60 and the circuit board 30 to fit the testing unit 60 to a required testing point.

In at least one exemplary embodiment, each of the bottom frame 150 and the side frame 160 can be a rectangular frame enclosed by supporting poles 110 . For example, the bottom frame 150 can be a rectangular frame made up of four supporting poles 110 end to end, joints between the ends can be locked by lock members 120 . The side frame 160 shares a supporting pole 110 with the bottom frame 150 and further includes three other supporting poles 110 . Two of the three other supporting poles 110 are perpendicularly connected to two ends of the shared supporting pole 110 , the third supporting pole 110 encloses the side frame 160 . Two opposite ends of the plug member 50 can be slidably connected to two parallel supporting poles 110 of the bottom frame 160 .

In at least one exemplary embodiment, each of the supporting poles 110 can be rectangular. The supporting pole 110 can include two opposite end surfaces and four side surfaces connected between the two opposite end surfaces, each of the four side surfaces defines a clamping slot 1101 along an extending direction of the supporting pole 110 .

Referring to FIG. 4 , the back plate 140 can be fixed to the side frame 160 through an installation piece 130 . For example, screw holes can be defined on the back plate 140 and on the installation piece 130 . The installation piece 130 can be clamped into the clamping slot 1101 of a supporting hole 110 of the side frame 160 , then the back plate 140 can be mounted to the installation piece 130 with screws.

The plug member 50 can include a sliding bar 510 and a connector 520 detachably connected to the sliding bar 510 . The sliding bar 510 can include two clamping parts (not shown) positioned on opposite ends of the sliding bar 510 , the ends of the sliding bar 510 are respectively and slidably connected to a clamping slot 1101 of two parallel supporting poles 110 of the bottom frame 150 through the two clamping parts. The shape of the sliding bar 510 can be the same as that of the supporting poles 110 .

The connector 520 can include two plug boards perpendicularly connected to each other. The connector 520 can be selectively connected to the sliding bar 510 through one of the two plug boards. In detail, the two plug boards can be a first plug board and a second plug board perpendicularly connected to the first plug board. The connector 520 can be connected to the sliding bar 510 through the first plug board, and the testing unit 60 can be mounted to the second plug board. Alternatively, the connector 520 can be rotated 90 degrees, and the connector 520 can be connected to the sliding bar 510 through the second plug board allowing the testing unit 60 to be mounted to the first plug board.

The control unit can include a power source 410 , a control board 420 electrically connected to the power source 410 , and a heat dissipation channel 430 formed between the power source 410 and the control board 420 . The control board 420 can share the cooling fan of the power source 410 .

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4 , the circuit board testing device 1 can further include a cooling member 20 movably installed to an upper side of the side frame 160 .

The cooling member 20 can include at least one cooling fan 210 , a wind scooper 240 , a wind leading channel 220 , and a slider 230 connected under the wind leading channel 220 . The wind leading channel 220 is interconnected between the cooling fan 210 and the wind scooper 240 . A sliding slot 1101 is defined on the upper side of the side frame 160 to receive the slider. The wind scooper 240 can be rotatably connected to an outlet end of the wind leading channel 220 to adjust the outlet direction of cooling wind produced by the fan 210 .

The slider 230 can include a guiding piece 2302 and a connecting piece 2301 . The guiding piece 2302 extends along the direction of the sliding slot 1101 and is received in the sliding slot 1101 defined on the upper side of the side frame 160 . The connecting piece 2301 is connected between the wind leading channel 220 and the guiding piece 2302 .

The embodiments shown and described above are only examples. Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present technology have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the present disclosure, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in the details, including matters of shape, size, and arrangement of the parts within the principles of the present disclosure, up to and including the full extent established by the broad general meaning of the terms used in the claims.