Silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks

• US 20030046469A1
• Filed: 08/29/2001
• Published: 03/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carry Computer Engineering Co Ltd
• Original Assignee: Carry Computer Engineering Co Ltd
• Inventors: Chen, Chia-Li, Liu, Wen-Tsung, Chen, Mi-Chang
• Granted Patent: US 6,751,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/301
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/409 Mechanical coupling back panels H05K7/1438
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/08 from or to individual record carriers, e.g. punched card , memory card, integrated circuit [IC] card or smart card

Abstract

A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks capable of being built in or externally connected with a main frame of a computer or any digital product, it satisfies the requirements of consumers of various groups of people by the function of reading and writing silicon disks (portable memory cards). The silicon disk drive provides a slot to suit insertion of SM, MM, MS and SD cards, and provides another slot to suit insertion of Type I, Type II or Type I CF card, or Type II or Type III PCMCIA card, in this way, data in the files of any of the above silicon disks can be read and written. And it can be assisted with provision of the design of the IDE/ATAPE, USB or 1934 delivery unit, in order that the silicon disk drive having a single slot or two slots not only for reading and writing on and for insertion of the now available silicon disks, but also for solving the long pending problems of confusing, misleading and being subjected to damage of the conventional techniques with more than three slots.

Claims

1. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks comprising:

a main body built in the mainframe system of a computer or a digital product and having therein a receiving space to receive an electric circuit board and other electronic elements, the front end thereof is provided with a first slot for insertion therethrough of memory cards into said mainframe system of said computer;

a first insertion cassette provided in said main body in correspondence with the position of said first slot;

the middle area of said first insertion cassette is an engaging area provided with a plurality of guide grooves of different lengths and widths to respectively guide a plurality of memory cards which include at least four kinds, any of said four kinds of memory cards is adapted to engaging in said engaging area by guiding of one of said guide grooves and fixed in said first insertion cassette, when a memory card is fixed in said first insertion cassette, signals is transmit to said electric circuit board in said main body; and

a delivery unit connected between said mainframe system of said computer and said main body and being of the specification of the interface of an IDE/ATAPE system, said memory card is engaged in said main body by inserting into the first slot, said electric circuit board provided in said main body reads the files stored in said memory card to transmit to said mainframe system of said computer by said delivery unit in a two-way mode.

2. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks as in claim 1, wherein,

said four kinds of memory cards are respectively SM, MM, MS and SD cards.

3. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks as in claim 1, wherein,

said delivery unit is designed to be of the specification of the system interface of USB, said main body is connected externally to a main frame of a computer or any of other digital products.

4. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks as in claim 1, wherein,

said delivery unit is designed to be of the specification of the system interface of 1394, said main body is connected externally to a mainframe of a computer or any of other digital products.

5. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks as in claim 1, wherein,

said main body is further provided on the front end thereof with a second slot, a second insertion cassette is provided in said main body in correspondence with the position of said second slot;

the middle area of said second insertion cassette is an engaging area provided at least with three guide grooves to respectively guide any of three kinds of memory cards of Type I, Type II and Type III PCMCIA cards, then signals is transmit to said electric circuit board in said main body.

6. A silicon disk drive with few slots for plural disks as in claim 5, wherein,

said guide grooves of said second insertion cassette are used to guide two specifications of Type I and Type II CF cards.