Disk drive/player positioning structure

• US 20050198657A1
• Filed: 06/24/2004
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tatung Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tatung Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Wu, Chin-Nan
• Granted Patent: US 7,187,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 720/632
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/022 Cases
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

A disk drive/player positioning structure includes a bracket, a sliding bottom plate coupled and movable forwards/backwards relative to the bracket, two sliding side plates coupled between the sliding bottom plate and the bracket for longitudinal displacement with the sliding bottom plate and transversely movable to each other relative to the bracket, and a disk drive/player mounted on the sliding bottom plate. The disk drive/player is locked that the disk drive/player is pushed backwards with the sliding bottom plate relative to the bracket and the sliding side plates are moved inwards toward each other to force locating rods thereof into respective locating holes in the disk drive/player, and is unlocked that the disk drive/player is pushed forwards with the sliding bottom plate relative to the bracket and the sliding side plates are moved outwards to disengage the locating rods from the locating holes of the disk drive/player.

Claims

1. A disk drive/player positioning structure comprising:

a bracket, said bracket comprising a bottom wall and two upright sidewalls at two sides of said bottom wall, said bottom wall defining a longitudinally extended centerline, said bottom wall comprising two longitudinal guides and two longitudinal sliding tracks respectively spaced from said centerline at two sides;

a sliding bottom plate movably supported on the bottom wall of said bracket, said sliding bottom plate comprising two longitudinal sliding structures, two transverse sliding structures, and at least two upright locating rods respectively symmetrically disposed at two sides, said two longitudinal sliding structures respectively coupled to the two longitudinal sliding tracks of said bracket;

two sliding side plates respectively coupled to said sliding bottom plate at two sides, said sliding side plates each comprising a horizontal wall set in between said sliding bottom plate and said bracket, the horizontal wall of each said sliding side plate comprising a longitudinal guide coupled to the corresponding respective longitudinal guide of said bracket for guiding longitudinal movement of the respective sliding side plate relative to said bracket and a transverse guide coupled to the corresponding respective transverse sliding structure of said sliding bottom plate for guiding transverse movement of the respective sliding side plate relative to said sliding bottom plate, and a vertical wall uprightly extended and parallel to one corresponding respective upright sidewall of said bracket, the vertical wall of each said sliding side plate having at least one horizontal locating rod; and

a disk drive/player mounted on said sliding bottom plate, said disk drive/player comprising a bottom panel and two side panels at two sides of said bottom panel, said bottom panel comprising at least two vertically extended locating holes respectively fastened to the corresponding upright locating rods of said sliding bottom plate, said side panels each comprising at least one horizontally extended locating hole respectively fastened to the corresponding horizontal locating rods of the vertical walls of said sliding side plates;

wherein at least one of each longitudinal guide of said bracket and each corresponding longitudinal guide of said sliding side plate has one front end portion and one rear end portion, said rear end portion being relatively closer to said centerline than said front end portion.

2. The disk drive/player positioning structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said bracket further comprises a first locating hole and a second locating hole longitudinally aligned on the middle adjacent to a front edge thereof;

said sliding bottom plate further comprises a retaining spring plate suspending at a bottom side thereof, said retaining spring plate comprising a raised retaining portion protruded from a free end thereof and adapted to selectively engage into the first locating hole or second locating hole of said bracket.

3. The disk drive/player positioning structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein each longitudinal guide of said bracket comprises at least one obliquely longitudinally extended sliding slot;

said front end portion and rear end portion are respectively formed in two distal ends of said each obliquely longitudinally extended sliding slot;

the longitudinal guides of said sliding side plates each comprise at least one guide rod respectively inserted into the corresponding obliquely longitudinally extended sliding slots of said bracket.

4. The disk drive/player positioning structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein each longitudinal sliding track of said bracket comprises at least one angled flanges upwardly protruded from the bottom wall of said bracket;

each longitudinal sliding structure of said sliding bottom plate comprises at least one longitudinal sliding slot respectively coupled to the corresponding angled flanges of the longitudinal sliding tracks of said bracket.

5. The disk drive/player positioning structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein each transverse sliding structure of said sliding bottom plate comprises at least one transversely downwardly protruded angled guide flanges;

the transverse guides of said sliding side plates each are comprised of two end edges respectively formed at two distal ends of the horizontal wall of each said sliding side plate and respectively slide along the corresponding angled guide flanges of the transverse sliding structures of said sliding bottom plate.