Portable hard disk drive

• US 6,891,721 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2003
• Issued: 05/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheng Y.U. Huang
• Original Assignee: Cheng Y.U. Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Cheng Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Lynn
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pape, Zachary
• Application Number:
  US10/422,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20040190192A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 312/332.1, 312/333, 361/685, 361724-727, 361/726
• US Class Current: 361/679.33
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 25/043 using rotating discs
• 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

Abstract

A portable disk drive in accordance with the present invention includes a housing made from aluminum alloy. The housing is provided with a front cover having a hook release button mounted thereon. The housing is provided with transparent side panels, which is illuminated when standby. A rear panel integrally formed with a supporting bracket on which a printed circuit board is mounted. The printed circuit board is mounted LED with respect to the transparent side panels. The supporting bracket is provided with a latch, which interlocks with a hook of the hook release button when the support bracket is inserted into the housing. When the portable hard disk drive is electrically connected, the LED illuminates the side panels.

Claims

1. A portable hard disk drive housing, defining a hollow inner space with transparent panels arranged at sides, a front cover arranged at front portion, a hook releasing button having a hook attached thereto arranged at the front cover, a rear cover integrally formed with a supporting bracket on which a hard disk drive is adapted to be mounted thereon, the supporting bracket being provided with a latch interlocked with said hook of the hook release button, by this arrangement, when the rear cover and the supporting bracket are pushed into the housing, the latch of the supporting bracket are interlocked with the hook of the hook release button without using screws.

2. The portable hard disk drive as recited in claim 1, wherein the supporting bracket is mounted with a printed circuit board having LED arranged thereon with respect to the transparent panels which homogenously distributing a light beam from the LED through a wave-guide on the transparent panel.

3. The portable hard disk drive as recited in claim 2, wherein the printed circuit board is provided with power input, signal input, a connection for hard disk drive provided with power input, signal input, and hard disk drive connecting terminals, by this arrangement the power and signal are connected to the housing and finally to the hard disk drive.

4. The portable hard disk drive as recited in claim 1, wherein the supporting bracket is provided with guiding rails on side so as to slide forward and backward along a slot defined in the housing.