SATA connector protection mechanism
AssigneeHitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
InventorsYoshiroh Amano, Kohji Takahashi
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Abstract
Damage of a connection between a connector and a circuit board on which the connector is mounted is to be prevented at the time of connecting the connector with a corresponding connector on a host side. In one embodiment, an HDD is provided with a serial ATA connector. The connector is mounted on a circuit board. The HDD is also provided with stiffeners for fixing the connector to the circuit board. When the connector moves toward a base at the time of connection thereof to a host-side connector, the stiffeners come into abutment against the base to stop the movement of the connector. As a result, damage of the connection between the connector and the circuit board can be prevented.
Claims17
A data storage device comprising:
- a data storage device body;
- a circuit board mounted on said data storage device body;
- a connector mounted on said circuit board, said connector having a housing and a plurality of connecting terminals disposed in said housing;
- and
- a stopper adapted to come into abutment against a wall portion opposed to said housing to stop movement of the housing when the housing moves in a direction away from a surface of said circuit board.
A data storage device comprising:
- a data storage device body having an enclosure for receiving a recording medium therein;
- a circuit board disposed on a surface of said enclosure;
- a connector disposed on one side of said circuit board, said connector having a housing and a plurality of connecting terminals disposed in said housing;
- and
- a stiffener fixed to said circuit board and fitted with said housing, said stiffener fixing said connector to said circuit board;
- wherein said circuit board is fixed to said enclosure with screws at both corner portions on said one side, and a hole for fitting therein of said stiffener is formed in said circuit board so that the center thereof is positioned on a line joining positions innermost from the circuit board end on said one side where screw heads in said both corner portions are located, or on said circuit board end side relative to said line.
A connector fixed onto a circuit board at a position opposed to an enclosure which is for receiving therein a recording medium of a data storage device, said circuit board being disposed on a surface of said enclosure, said connector comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of connecting terminals disposed in said housing;
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- a projecting member fitted in a hole formed in said housing and projecting higher than a highest position of a surface of said housing on the side opposite to a mounting surface of said housing for mounting to said circuit board.
A magnetic disk drive comprising:
- an enclosure which receives a magnetic disk therein and which has a base and a top cover;
- a circuit board disposed outside said base and with a control circuit mounted thereon;
- a connector mounted on said circuit board, said connector having a housing and a plurality of connecting terminals disposed in said housing;
- and
- a stiffener fixed to said circuit board and fixing said housing to said circuit board;
- wherein said housing has a base portion on which said plural connecting terminals are arranged and a side wall portion formed sideways of said base portion,
- said plural connecting terminals have contact portions projecting forward from said base portion so as to be connected to a host-side connector,
- said stiffener is fitted in a hole formed in said side wall portion, is opposed to said contact portions in the direction in which said plural connecting terminals are arranged, and projects from a surface of said side wall portion opposed to said base, and
- the distance between said stiffener and the base of said enclosure is smaller than a smallest gap between said side wall portion and the base of said enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.