Hard disc drive mounting structure

• US 5,155,662 A
• Filed: 01/16/1991
• Issued: 10/13/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tsai I-Shou
• Original Assignee: Tsai I-Shou
• Inventors: I-Shou, Tsai
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phillips, Michael W.
• Application Number:
  US07/641,946
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 360/97.01, 360/97.02, 360/97.03, 360/97.04, 360/137, 364/708, 361/380, 361/390, 361/391, 361/392, 361/393, 361/394, 361/395, 361/399
• US Class Current: 361/679.31
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

A detachable hard disc driver mounting structure, comprising a hard disc drive received inside a sliding case and fastened in a receiving chamber inside a computer mainframe through plug-in connection. The sliding case has slide ways at two opposite sides corresponding to the two opposite rails inside the receiving chamber of the computer mainframe so that it can be drawing out of the receiving chamber and then pushed back into place. Stub tenon is made on the front end of the sliding case for engaging in the retaining slot at the inner end inside the receiving chamber. I/O pins are made on the hard disc drive at one end for connecting to the mother board of the computer mainframe through an I/O bus line connector.

Claims

1. In a detachable hard disc drive mounting structure, comprising a hard disc drive received in a case which in turn is received in a chamber in a computer mainframe having a mother board with a plug-in connection, the improvement comprising:

said case having front and back ends and a top and a bottom, an opening being located at one of the ends through which said hard disc drive can be slidably inserted, and a stub tenon mounted thereon at the front end thereof, a groove being defined between said front end and said stub tenon, and a plurality of bolt holes being located on the top thereof, said case further having opposite sides and two slide ways mounted respectively on the two opposite sides thereof;

said hard disc drive having a plurality of bolt holes on a side thereof corresponding to the top of said case and registering on the bolt holes on said case and screw means for securing said hard disc drive inside said case through said holes, and input/output pin means mounted at an end thereof for releasably connecting said drive to the mother board of said mainframe thorough said plug in connection comprising an input/output bus line terminal connector coupled to said mother board;

said computer mainframe having a pair of rails within the chamber for receiving said slide ways on said case so as to slidably receive said case with said drive mounted within said case with said input/output pin means coupled to said mother board at said terminal connector, and a retaining slot defined within said receiving chamber for releasably retaining said stub tenon of said sliding case when said case is received in the chamber.