Mounting device for storage device

• US 8,427,823 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2011
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamada, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Edwards, Anthony Q
• Application Number:
  US13/137,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20110284422A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.39, 361/727
• US Class Current: 361/679.39
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/6885 the cassettes being conveyed within a cassette storage location, e.g. within a storage bin or conveying by belt
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/128 of the plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. disk drives, onto a chassis

Abstract

In a mounting device for disk drive, two HDDs are retained in an outer case that forms the mounting device, and an inner case with guiding grooves each including an oblique groove and a parallel groove formed thereon is provided. When the inner case is extracted, the HDD on the front side is caused to ascend in the vertical direction to a position where the HDD on the front side does not obstruct the extraction of the HDD on the back side.

Claims

1. A mounting device for storage device comprising:

a first case formed in a size large enough to house therein a storage device of a size conforming to a first standard;

a second case that is housed in the first case in a manner extractable therefrom along a longitudinal direction of the first case, and that retains storage devices of a size conforming to a second standard on its front side and its back side in the longitudinal direction viewed from a side to which the second case is to be extracted from the first case; and

a guiding groove formed on the second case so as to cause the storage device retained on the front side to move in a vertical direction viewed from the longitudinal direction such that the storage device retained on the front side does not obstruct movement of the storage device retained on the back side that moves along the longitudinal direction on extracting the second case from the first case.

2. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein

the guiding groove includes an oblique groove that causes the storage device retained on the front side to move in the vertical direction, and a parallel groove that retains the storage device caused to ascend in the vertical direction along the oblique groove.

3. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein

the second case is provided with a first ejector that is used for extracting the second case from the first case and that fixes the second case at a predetermined position of the first case, and with a second ejector that is used for extracting the storage devices from the second case and that fixes the storage devices at a predetermined position of the second case.

4. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein

the first case is provided with a portion defining an opening through which the storage device retained on the front side is evacuated in the vertical direction to a position where the evacuated storage device does not obstruct movement of the storage device retained on the back side that moves along the longitudinal direction when the second case is extracted.

5. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein

the first case is provided with a portion defining an opening though which the storage device retained on the front side is evacuated in the vertical direction to a position where the evacuated storage device does not obstruct movement of the storage device retained on the back side that moves along the longitudinal direction when the second case is extracted, and

a bottom portion of the first case is provided with an evacuation orifice through which the storage device evacuated from the portion defining an opening formed on an upper portion of another first case different from the first case is evacuated.