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US 2003/0112595 A1Published application
Universal hard disk cartridge
OwnerBill Kwong, Victor Chuan-Chen Wuinventors
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Abstract
A cartridge design allows any standard size IDE hard drive to be used like a removable media. The cartridge with the hard drive can then be connected to any computing devices via various interface ports such as USB, Firewire, PCMCIA, Parallel or any new IO ports. The cartridge consists of a disk connecting board, a cartridge housing and an eject mechanism to remove the hard drive from the cartridge.
Claims7
A Universal Hard Disk Cartridge capable of containing a hard disk and connecting to a I/O port of a personal computer by an interface cable, comprising:
- a hard disk connecting board;
- and
- a Universal Hard Disk cartridge housing;
- users can conveniently add and remove the hard drive from the UHDC as if the hard drive is a removable storage media.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.