CART FOR TRANSPORTING CIRCUIT COMPONENTS

摘要

A transport vehicle for enabling a user to wheel one or more sensitive electronic components such as circuit board modules from one location to another without subjecting the components to electrical field damage. The transport vehicle is in the nature of a cart formed from a conductive tubular framework supported on wheels. Slidably received between a pair of parallel frame members is a bin formed from a material which has an outer conductive layer forming a Faraday shield and an inner conductive layer or, alternatively, a static dissipative conductive layer which offers a slow, more controlled bleed of static electricity. The conductive outer layer of the bin is in contact with the conductive frame of the transport vehicle so that all ambient static electricity which may impinge upon the transport vehicle will be conducted from the frame or from the bin through the frame, which can be grounded, to safely discharge the static electricity rather than have it come in contact with an electronic component which may be housed in the bin for transport.