Storage device carrier for high density storage system

• US 9,098,233 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2013
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dot Hill Systems Corporation (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: Dot Hill Systems Corporation (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Keffeler, David Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoffberg, Robert J
• Assistant Examiner(s): DANG, HUNG Q
• Application Number:
  US13/747,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20140204522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.33, 361/679.37, 361/679.39, 361/679.41, 361/679.32, 312/333, 312/334.1, 312/322.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/128 of the plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. disk drives, onto a chassis
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0217 Mechanical details of casings covers, lids, hoods or members for covering apertures H05K5/03
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49815 Disassembling

Abstract

A storage device carrier includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a side portion and a front portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the first member side portion. The first member includes a first portion of a finger grab. The second member includes a side portion and a latching feature. The latching feature is on an outside surface of a second member side portion. The second member also includes a front portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the second member side portion. The second member includes a second portion of the finger grab.

Claims

1. A storage device carrier, comprising:

a first member, comprising;

a side portion; and

a front portion, comprising a stiff portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the first member side portion, the front portion comprising a first portion of a finger grab;

a second member, comprising;

a side portion comprising a latching feature, wherein the latching feature is on an outside surface of the second member side portion; and

a front portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the second member side portion, comprising a second portion of the finger grab,

wherein the stiff portion resists deflection of the first portion of the finger grab relative to the second portion of the finger grab when user fingertips exert inward horizontal force to the first and second portions of the finger grab.

2. The storage device carrier of claim 1, a mounted storage device comprising the first and second members attached to a storage device, wherein the mounted storage device second portion of the finger grab is movable relative to the first portion of the finger grab when the first and second portions of the finger grab are pushed together.

3. The storage device carrier of claim 2, wherein one of the first member and second member front portions comprises a projecting tab, wherein the other of the one of the first member and second member front portions comprises a recess for receiving the projecting tab.

4. The storage device carrier of claim 3, a mounted storage device comprising the first and second members attached to a storage device, the first portion of the finger grab is adjacent to the second portion of the finger grab, and the projecting tab is at least partially in the recess for receiving the projecting tab.

5. The storage device carrier of claim 4, wherein the mounted storage device is removed from a drawer by pushing the first and second portions of the finger grab together and pulling the mounted storage device from the drawer.

6. The storage device carrier of claim 4, wherein the mounted storage device is inserted into the drawer by pushing the first and second portions of the finger grab together and pushing the mounted storage device into the drawer until the latching feature engages the drawer.

7. The storage device carrier of claim 2, each of the first and second member side portions comprising at least one hole for attaching the first and second members to a storage device, wherein the storage device is mounted in the storage device carrier upside-down.

8. The storage device carrier of claim 2, the latching feature comprising a hole, wherein the hole engages an inward projection of a drawer when the mounted storage device is pushed into the drawer.

9. The storage device carrier of claim 2, the latching feature comprising an outward projection, wherein the outward projection engages a hole in a side surface of a drawer when the mounted storage device is pushed into the drawer.

10. The storage device carrier of claim 2, wherein the first and second members are each a single piece of ABS plastic.

11. A storage system, comprising:

a plurality of front-mounted drawers, each of the plurality of front-mounted drawers comprising;

one or more mounted storage devices, each of the one or more mounted storage devices comprising;

a storage device;

a first member, coupled to a first side of the storage device, comprising;

a side portion; and

a front portion, comprising a stiff portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the first member side portion, the front portion comprising a first portion of a finger grab; and

a second member, coupled to a second side of the storage device opposite the first side of the storage device, comprising;

a side portion comprising a latching feature, wherein the latching feature is on an outside surface of the second member side portion; and

a front portion, perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of the second member side portion, comprising a second portion of the finger grab,

wherein the stiff portion resists deflection of the first portion of the finger grab relative to the second portion of the finger grab when user fingertips exert inward horizontal force to the first and second portions of the finger grab.

12. The storage system of claim 11, wherein the mounted storage device second portion of the finger grab is movable relative to the first portion of the finger grab when the first and second portions of the finger grab are pushed together.

13. The storage system of claim 12, wherein one of the first member and second member front portions comprises a projecting tab, wherein the other of the one of the first member and second member front portions comprises a recess for receiving the projecting tab.

14. The storage system of claim 13, wherein the mounted storage device is removed from a drawer by pushing the first and second portions of the finger grab together and pulling the mounted storage device from the drawer.

15. The storage system of claim 13, wherein the mounted storage device is inserted into the drawer by pushing the first and second portions of the finger grab together and pushing the mounted storage device into the drawer until the latching feature engages the drawer.

16. The storage system of claim 11, each of the first and second member side portions comprising at least one hole for attaching the first and second members to a storage device, wherein the storage device is mounted in the storage device carrier upside-down.

17. The storage system of claim 11, the latching feature comprising a hole, wherein the hole engages an inward projection of a side surface of a drawer when the storage device carrier is attached to a storage device and pushed into the drawer.

18. The storage system of claim 11, the latching feature comprising an outward projection, wherein the outward projection engages a hole in a side surface of a drawer when the storage device carrier is attached to a storage device and pushed into the drawer.

19. The storage system of claim 11, wherein the first and second members are each a single piece of ABS plastic.

20. A method for removing a mounted storage device from a drawer of a storage enclosure, the method comprising:

pushing a second portion of a finger grab of the mounted storage device horizontally toward a first portion of a finger grab of the mounted storage device, the second portion of the finger grab is on a front portion of a second member and the first portion of the finger grab is on a front portion of a first member, wherein the front portion of the first member is perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of a side portion of the first member, wherein the side portion of the first member is attached to a first side of the storage device;

wherein the front portion of the second member is perpendicularly coupled to an inside surface of a front end of a side portion of the second member, wherein the side portion of the second member is attached to a second side of the storage device opposite the first side of the storage device;

pulling the mounted storage device from the drawer, the mounted storage device comprising the storage device fastened to the first member and the second member,

wherein pushing the second portion of the finger grab of the mounted storage device horizontally toward the first portion of the finger grab releases a latching feature in the side portion of the second member from contact with a corresponding feature in the drawer, wherein the first portion of the finger grab resists deflection relative to the second portion of the finger grab when pushing the second portion of the finger grab of the mounted storage device horizontally toward the first portion of the finger grab.