SUPPORT FOR COMPUTER DATA BACK-UP UNIT(S)

• US 20180137895A1
• Filed: 11/14/2017
• Published: 05/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Freebox
• Original Assignee: Freebox
• Inventors: Charpiot, Patrick
• Granted Patent: US 10,297,288 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/975 in the form of repositionable partition walls
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/988 in the form of holders for positioning specific articles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/187 Mounting of fixed and removable disk drives
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/022 Cases
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/122 Arrangements for providing electrical connections, e.g. connectors, cables, switches
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/02 Arrangements of circuit components or wiring on supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1438 Back panels or connecting means therefor; Terminals; Coding means to avoid wrong insertion
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/183 support rails therefor

Abstract

The invention relates to a support for computer data back-up units, designed to receive at least two distinct sizes of back-up units, wherein the support comprises a bottom and at least one stationary wall perpendicular to the bottom.

According to the invention, the support further comprises an additional wall extending perpendicularly to the bottom of the support and parallel to the stationary wall, wherein it is mounted to be movable relative to the bottom of the support between at least two receiving slots respectively associated with the distinct sizes of the back-up units.

Claims

1. Computer data back-up unit support designed to receive at least two distinct sizes of back-up units, wherein the support comprises a bottom and at least one stationary wall perpendicular to the bottom,

wherein the support further comprises an additional wall extending perpendicularly to the bottom of the support and parallel to the stationary wall, wherein the additional wall is mounted to be movable in the direction of the width of the support relative to the bottom of the support between at least two receiving slots that are respectively associated with distinct receiving widths of the back-up units.

2. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 1, wherein the movable wall is supported on a base to form a movable assembly sliding in at least one rail of the bottom of the support.

3. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 2, wherein the base extends perpendicularly to the movable wall, and away from the stationary wall with respect to the movable wall.

4. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 2, wherein the base is U-shaped and has two grooves that are open towards the outside of the free ends of the arms of the U, and interact with the facing edges of two non-adjacent rails of the bottom of the support.

5. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 4, wherein the U-shaped base comprises a notch in its central part for the passage of a central rail situated between the two non-adjacent rails on which the mobile assembly slides.

6. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 5, wherein the non-adjacent rails comprise guide profiles whose length is shorter than the rail length.

7. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 2, wherein the bottom of the support comprises an alternating arrangement of rails of material constituting the support and openings extending in the direction of the width of the support, wherein the rails and the openings are parallel and inclined to the perpendicular to the stationary wall.

8. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 5, wherein the center rail comprises at least two latching elements each designed to wedge the central portion of the U of the base to one of the at least two back-up units receiving slots respectively associated with the distinct sizes of the units.

9. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 7, wherein the material surface of the bottom of the support is smaller than the surface of the openings of the bottom of the support.

10. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 2, wherein the mobile assembly is detachable from the support.

11. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 1, wherein the movable wall comprises:

at least one pin on one of its faces that is configured to block, along the height of the support, at least one back-up unit according to one size, and

at least one other pin on the other face that is configured to block, along the height of the support, at least one back-up unit according to one other size.

12. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 1, wherein the movable wall comprises, on one of its faces, at least two pins designed to block, in superposition, along the height of the support, at least two back-up units of the same size.

13. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 1, wherein at least one pin of the support is retractable or supported by a deformable strip.

14. Computer data back-up unit support according to claim 1, wherein the support is made of a material configured to deform during the insertion/removal of the back-up unit(s).

15. A computer data back-up unit support according to claim 14, wherein the material is plastic.