MOUNTING APPARATUS FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICE

• US 20120091304A1
• Filed: 11/12/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: CHUANG, KEN-YAO, TSAI, CHIA-WEN
• Application Number:
  US12/944,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20120091304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/316.5
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/10 using pivoting jaws
• 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 mounting apparatus for a data storage device includes a first fixed member, a second fixed member, a torsion spring, and a positioning member. The first fixed member includes a first bottom plate and a first sidewall. The first bottom plate includes a pair of first convex tabs. The pair of first convex tabs each defines a first pin hole therein. The second fixed member includes a second bottom plate and a second sidewall. The second bottom plate includes a pair of second convex tabs. The pair of second convex tabs each defines a second pin hole therein. The positioning member includes a pin. The pin is passed through the first pin holes of the pair of first convex tabs, the second pin holes of the pair of second convex tabs and a center of the torsion spring.

Claims

1. A mounting apparatus for a data storage device, the mounting apparatus comprising:

a first fixed member comprising a first bottom plate, and a first sidewall extending up from an edge of the first bottom plate;

wherein the first bottom plate comprises a pair of first convex tabs extending from a side edge of the first bottom plate, away from the first sidewall, and wherein the pair of first convex tabs each defines a first pin hole therein;

a second fixed member comprising a second bottom plate, and a second sidewall extending up from an edge of the second bottom plate;

wherein the second bottom plate includes a pair of second convex tabs extending from a side edge of the second bottom plate, away from the second sidewall, and wherein the pair of second convex tabs each defines a second pin hole therein;

a torsion spring; and

a positioning member comprising a pin, wherein the pin is passed through the first pin holes of the pair of first convex tabs, the second pin holes of the pair of second convex tabs and a center of the torsion spring, and wherein the torsion spring bias the first and the second fixed members to pivot the first and the second sidewalls toward each other.

2. The mounting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first fixed member further comprises a first resilient clip connected with a front end of the first sidewall, and the second fixed member further comprises a second resilient clip connected with a front end of the second sidewall.

3. The mounting apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first resilient clip comprises a first raised block fixed on an outer side thereof, and the second resilient clip comprises a second raised block fixed on an outer side thereof.

4. The mounting apparatus of claim 1, wherein an inner side of the first sidewall comprises at least one first protrusion extending therefrom, and an inner side of the second sidewall comprises at least one second protrusion extending therefrom, wherein the at least one first protrusion and the at least one second protrusion correspond to mounting holes of the data storage device.

5. The mounting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the number of the at least one first protrusion and the number of the at least one second protrusion are both two, and wherein the two first protrusions are separated by a distance, and the two second protrusions are separated by a distance.

6. The mounting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first sidewall further comprises two first top block plates extending inward from two opposite ends thereof, a first front block plate extending inward from a front end thereof, and a first rear block plate extending inward from a rear end thereof.

7. The mounting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the second sidewall further comprises two second top block plates extending inward from two opposite ends thereof, a second front block plate extending inward from a front end thereof, and a second rear block plate extending inward from a rear end thereof.

8. The mounting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pair of second convex tabs of the second fixed member is disposed between the pair of first convex tabs of the first fixed member, and the pin is longer than the distance between the pair of first convex tabs of the first fixed member.

9. The mounting apparatus of claim 8, wherein the positioning member further comprises two stoppers removably attached at two ends of the pin.

10. The mounting apparatus of claim 9, wherein a diameter of each of the two stoppers exceeds a diameter of the pin.

11. The mounting apparatus of claim 1, wherein one end of the torsion spring abuts first bottom plate and the other end of the torsion spring abuts the second bottom plate.