Non-operational shock protection for disk carriers in a high den

Details Non-operational shock protection for disk carriers in a high den Non-operational shock protection for disk carriers in a high den

1998-06-15

2000-07-04

Picard, Leo P.

Electricity: electrical systems and devices

Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...

For electronic systems and devices

361685, 361735, 361742, 361744, 248636, 248638, H05K 500, H05K 700, H05K 114, F16M 1300, F16M 100

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ABSTRACT:
A hot-pluggable hard disk drive is supported on a carrier structure for removable insertion into a sheet metal cage structure in a manner such that an SCA connector on the rear end of the drive is releasably mateable with a corresponding backplane connector within the cage. The carrier has a bottom side with opposite side edge portions from which resilient shock-absorbing foot members downwardly project to protect the carrier-supported disk drive from non-operational shock when the bottom of the carrier is inadvertently permitted to downwardly strike a horizontal support surface such as a table or workbench. Upwardly projecting side wall portions of the carrier are positioned generally over the protective feet, on opposite sides of the supported disk drive, and have top side edges downwardly offset from the top side of the disk drive. The downward offsets of the upper side wall portion edges of the carrier form nesting areas for receiving the protective shock-absorbing feet of a second drive carrier placed upwardly adjacent and in horizontal alignment with the first carrier. In this manner no additional shock-absorbing foot space is required between adjacent stacked pairs of disk drive carriers.

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