Bracket for mounting hard disk drive

• US 8,094,446 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry 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: Liu, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): LEA EDMONDS, LISA S
• Application Number:
  US12/606,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20110075347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.33
• US Class Current: 361/679.33
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/187 Mounting of fixed and removable disk drives
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/124 of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

Abstract

A HDD assembly comprises a HDD defining a plurality of mounting holes therein and a bracket for fixing the HDD. The bracket comprises a fixing plate and a holding frame connected with the fixing plate. The holding frame defines a receiving space for receiving the HDD therein. The holding frame comprises a resilient clip. The resilient clip forms a plurality of poles engaging in the mounting holes of the HDD, to firmly fix the HDD in the receiving space of the bracket.

Claims

1. A HDD assembly, comprising:

a HDD defining a plurality of mounting holes at two opposite sides thereof; and

a bracket comprising a fixing plate and a holding frame connected to the fixing plate, the holding frame comprising a mounting plate and an enclosing wall extending outwardly from the mounting plate, the enclosing wall and the mounting plate cooperatively defining a receiving space of the holding frame for receiving the HDD therein, the holding frame comprising at least one resilient clip forming a plurality of poles, the poles engaging in the mounting holes of the HDD to fix the HDD in the receiving space of holding frame.

2. The HDD assembly of claim 1, wherein the enclosing wall is U-shaped, including a pair of parallel first flanges and a second flange connected between the pair of parallel first flanges.

3. The HDD assembly of claim 2, wherein the second flange is located adjacent to the fixing plate.

4. The HDD assembly of claim 2, wherein the at least one resilient clip includes two resilient clips attached to the first flanges of the enclosing wall respectively, each of the first flanges defining a plurality of through holes therein, each of the resilient clips comprising a fixed end fixed on a corresponding first flange of the enclosing wall and an opposite free end, the poles of the resilient clips extending through the through holes of the first flanges of the enclosing wall into the receiving space.

5. The HDD assembly of claim 4, wherein a handle tab is formed at the free end of each of the resilient clips.

6. The HDD assembly of claim 1, wherein a pin set is formed at a bottom of the mounting plate of the holding frame.

7. A bracket for mounting a HDD, the bracket comprising:

a fixing plate;

a holding frame connected with the fixing plate, the holding frame comprising a mounting plate and an enclosing wall extending from the mounting plate, the enclosing wall and the mounting plate cooperatively defining a receiving space of the holding frame for receiving the HDD therein; and

at least one resilient clip attached to the holding frame, the at least one resilient clip comprising a plurality of poles adapted for extending into mounting holes defined in the HDD to fix the HDD in the receiving space.

8. The bracket of claim 7, wherein the enclosing wall is U-shaped and comprises a pair of parallel first flanges and a second flange connected between the pair of parallel first flanges.

9. The bracket of claim 8, wherein the at least one resilient clip includes two resilient clips attached to the first flanges, respectively, each of the first flanges defining a plurality of through holes therein, the poles extending through the through holes and protruding into the receiving space.

10. The bracket of claim 9, wherein each of the resilient clips comprises a fixed end and an opposite free end, the fixed end being fixed on a corresponding first flange of the enclosing wall.

11. The bracket of claim 10, wherein a handle tab is formed at the free end of each of the resilient clips.