Mounting apparatus for storage device

• US 7,684,181 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Issued: 03/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Peng, Wen-Tang, Gong, Xin-Hu
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong; Hung V
• Application Number:
  US11/965,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20090103252A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.17, 361/679.3, 361/679.33, 36167934-67941, 369/75.1, 369/75.2, 312/332.1, 312/333, 292/113, 360/97.01, 248694-697
• US Class Current: 361/679.33
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/123 Mounting arrangements of constructional parts onto a chassis
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

A mounting apparatus is provided for a storage device. The storage device includes two lateral sides each defining at least one fixing hole. The mounting apparatus includes a conductive bracket having two side plates, and at least one fastener installed on an inside surface of each of the side plates. Each fastener includes a conductive elastic portion fixed to the corresponding side plate, and a conductive fixing portion extending from the elastic portion and perpendicular to the corresponding side plate. The elastic portions engage with the lateral sides of the storage device respectively, the fixing portions engage in the fixing holes of the storage device respectively.

Claims

1. A mounting apparatus for a storage device, the storage device comprising two lateral sides each defining at least one fixing hole, the mounting apparatus comprising:

a conductive bracket comprising two side plates; and

at least one fastener installed on an inside surface of each of the side plates, each fastener comprising a conductive elastic portion fixed to the corresponding side plate, and a conductive fixing portion extending from the elastic portion and perpendicular to the corresponding side plate, the elastic portions engaging with the lateral sides of the storage device respectively, the fixing portions engaging in the fixing holes of the storage device respectively.

2. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein each fixing portion comprises a base molded in the corresponding elastic portion, and a pin perpendicularly extending from the base and exposed out of the elastic portion.

3. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein an arcuate flange is formed on a joint of each pin and the corresponding base, the flange is around the pin and engages with a portion of the corresponding lateral side of the storage device bounding the fixing hole therein.

4. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic portions are made of electrically conductive plastic material.

5. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inside surface of each of the side plates defines at least one recess corresponding to the fixing holes of the storage device, the elastic portions of the fasteners are tightly fixed in the recesses of the side plates and are partially exposed out of the recesses respectively.

6. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein paste is coated between the elastic portions and the corresponding recesses of the side plates.

7. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein an outside surface of each of the side plates defines at least one venting hole communicating with the corresponding recess.

8. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bracket is made of metal or plastic material attaching with metal.

9. The mounting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fixing portions are made of metal.