HARD DISK DRIVE DRAWER

• US 20080157638A1
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. (ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: LIU, Kuo-Kuang, Liu, Te-Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/952,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20080157638A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/223.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/187 Mounting of fixed and removable disk drives
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

A hard disk drive drawer includes a fixed casing mountable inside a computer housing, and a drawable carrier moveably and detachably receivable in the fixed casing. The fixed casing having two opposite lateral panels, each of which is provided with a track and a retaining portion located at the track adjacent to a free end of the track. The drawable carrier is elastically deformable for holding a hard disk drive therein. The drawable carrier has two sliding rails disposed at two opposite lateral sidewalls thereof and detachably, slidably and respectively coupled to the tracks, a handle at one side thereof, and two positioning portions engageable with the retaining portions of the fixed casing.

Claims

1. A hard disk drive drawer mountable inside a computer housing for holding a hard disk drive therein, the hard disk driver drawer comprising:

a fixed casing mountable inside the computer housing, the fixed casing having two opposite lateral panels, each of which has a track, and a retaining portion formed in at least one of the two opposite lateral panels and located adjacent to a free end of one of the tracks; and

a drawable carrier elastically deformable for holding the hard disk drive therein, the drawable carrier having two sliding rails disposed at two opposite lateral sidewalls thereof and detachably, slidably and respectively coupled to the tracks, a handle at one side thereof, and a positioning portion engageable with the retaining portion of the fixed casing.

2. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tracks of the fixed casing are elongated slots;

the sliding rails of the drawable carrier have a T-shaped cross section for coupling to the elongated slots.

3. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the retaining portion is a locating hole having a width greater than the width of the tracks.

4. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fixed casing includes two said retaining portions, which are respectively formed in the two opposite lateral panels of the fixed casing and at the two tracks.

5. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the positioning portion of the drawable carrier includes a protruding block having a sloping surface.

6. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drawable carrier comprises a plurality of pins disposed at inner surfaces of the two opposite sidewalls for insertion into mounting holes of the hard disk drive.

7. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drawable carrier is a single-piece member.

8. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 1, further comprising at least one spring strip mounted in the drawable carrier and closely attached to the fixed casing.

9. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 8, wherein the spring strip is elastically deformable.

10. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 8, wherein the spring strip has a smoothly arched middle part.

11. The hard disk drive drawer as claimed in claim 8, wherein the drawable carrier comprises a plurality of pins;

the spring strip has a plurality of through holes for insertion of the pins of the drawable carrier.