Fixing apparatus for hard disk drive

• US 7,701,703 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2007
• Issued: 04/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Mo-Ming, Peng, Wen-Tang, Huang, Wei-Chao
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong; Hung V
• Application Number:
  US11/963,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20090059507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 248/618, 248/633, 361/679.26, 361/679.27, 361/679.3, 361/679.33, 361/679.35, 364/708.1, 439/638, 360/244.3
• US Class Current: 361/679.33
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

An exemplary fixing apparatus is for mounting a hard disk drive (HDD) having a plurality of holes defined in sidewalls thereof. The fixing apparatus includes a first bracket, and a second bracket. The first bracket includes a side plate, and a transverse member perpendicular to the side plate. The second bracket includes a side plate, and a transverse member perpendicular to the side plate. A free end of the transverse member of the second bracket pivotably engages with the transverse member of the first bracket. A free end of the transverse member of the first bracket is detachably locked to the transverse member of the second bracket. The side plates of the first bracket and the second bracket include a plurality of fixing members attached thereto to engage in the holes of the disk drive, respectively.

Claims

1. A fixing apparatus for fixing a hard disk drive (HDD) with a plurality of holes defined in sidewalls thereof, the fixing apparatus comprising:

a first bracket comprising a side plate, and a transverse member perpendicular to the side plate;

a second bracket comprising a side plate, and a transverse member perpendicular to the side plate, a free end of the transverse member of the second bracket pivotably engaging with the transverse member of the first bracket, a free end of the transverse member of the first bracket detachably locked to the transverse member of the second bracket; and

a plurality of fixing members attached to the side plates of the first and the second brackets to engage in the holes of the HDD.

2. The fixing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transverse member of the first bracket comprises a pivoting hole defined in an end portion near the side plate thereof, a pivoting hole is defined in the free end of the transverse member of the second bracket, a shaft extends through the pivoting holes of the second bracket and the first bracket.

3. The fixing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transverse member of the second bracket comprises a pair of parallel spaced horizontal plates having a pair of posts extending toward each other from inside surfaces thereof respectively, the transverse member of the first bracket comprises a pair of resilient tabs extending from a distal free end thereof, a pair of through holes is respectively defined in the resilient tabs to engage with the posts.

4. The fixing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the post comprises a sloping distal end.

5. The fixing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the fixing members comprises a cap, and a pin with one end embedded in the cap.

6. The fixing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the cap comprises a rectangular portion, a cylindrical portion perpendicularly extending from the rectangular portion, and a pair of wedged protrusions extending oppositely from a circumferential wall of the cylindrical portion, the side plates comprise a plurality of mounting holes defined therein to retain the fixing members.