Low profile latching mechanism
AssigneePure Storage, Inc.
InventorsEric Lotter, Aditya Prabhakar
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Abstract
A latching mechanism includes a latch housing comprising a plurality of standoffs, a mechanical energy storage component operatively coupled to the latch housing and a latch positioned inside the latch housing and operatively coupled to the mechanical energy storage component on a first side of the latch, the latch comprising a first opening positioned near the center of a body of the latch, a plurality of second openings positioned near the perimeter of the body of the latch and a ridge on a second side of the latch, wherein each of the plurality of standoffs protrude into a corresponding second opening of the plurality of second openings and wherein the latch moves in a lateral direction relative to the latch housing.
Claims8
A storage system enclosure comprising:
- a base comprising a locking pin;
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- one or more solid-state storage devices, non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), and one or more storage controllers coupled to the base, wherein the one or more storage controllers are operatively coupled to the one or more solid-state storage devices and the NVRAM to perform storage operations;
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- a cover comprising a latching mechanism, the latching mechanism comprising:
- a latch housing comprising a plurality of standoffs;
- a mechanical energy storage component operatively coupled to the latch housing;
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- a latch positioned inside the latch housing and operatively coupled to the mechanical energy storage component on a first side of the latch, the latch comprising a first opening positioned near a center of a body of the latch to enable a user to engage and disengage the latch by moving the latch in a lateral direction, a plurality of second openings positioned near a perimeter of the body of the latch and a ridge on a second side of the latch, wherein each of the plurality of standoffs protrude into a corresponding second opening of the plurality of second openings and wherein the latch moves in the lateral direction relative to the latch housing to interface the ridge with the locking pin of the base to secure the cover of the storage system enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.