Media drive unseating mechanism
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsBrian William Wallace, John David Swansey, Robert Paul Tennant, Xiaosong Xia
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Abstract
An assembly configured for attachment to a media drive can include a base with a hinge end and a hinge axis and a handle with a hinge end, a locking tab and a swing end where the handle is configured for a locked orientation with respect to the base with the hinge end of the base extending outwardly beyond the hinge end of the handle and configured for an unlocked orientation with respect to the base with the hinge end of the base extending outwardly beyond the hinge end of the handle. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
Claims20
An assembly configured for attachment to a media drive, the assembly comprising:
- a base that comprises a hinge end and a hinge axis;
- and
- a handle that comprises a hinge end, a locking tab and a swing end, the handle configured for a locked orientation with respect to the base and configured for an unlocked orientation with respect to the base,
- wherein the locked orientation corresponds to a locked angle of rotation of the handle about the hinge axis having an end of the locking tab rotated outwardly away from the hinge end of the base, the swing end of the handle rotated inwardly toward the base and the hinge end of the base extending outwardly beyond the hinge end of the handle and
- wherein the unlocked orientation corresponds to an unlocked angle of rotation of the handle about the hinge axis having an end of the locking tab rotated inwardly toward the hinge end of the base, the swing end of the handle rotated outwardly away from the base and the hinge end of the handle extending outwardly beyond the hinge end of the base.
A method comprising:
- providing a latch that latches a swing end of a handle to a base, the base attached to a media drive seated in a media drive bay wherein unlatching of the latch rotates the swing end of the handle away from the base about a pivot to simultaneously rotate a locking tab about the pivot toward the base;
- and
- providing a recessed surface of the media drive bay for biasing an edge of the handle wherein rotating the swing end of the handle away from the base unseats a connector of the media drive and disengages the locking tab from an opening of the media drive bay to unlock the media drive from the media drive bay.
An assembly comprising:
- one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in memory;
- memory configured to store processor-executable instructions;
- a media drive configured to store information and to respond to instructions executed by at least one of the one or more processors;
- a media drive bay with a recessed surface;
- a media drive tray subassembly configured to mount the media drive in the media drive bay wherein the subassembly comprises a base and, attached to the base, a pivotal handle that comprises a swing end and an opposing pivot end, the handle configured for a locked orientation with respect to the base wherein a locking tab extends from the pivot end and sits in a lock opening of the media drive bay and the handle configured for an unlocked orientation with respect to the base wherein the locking tab sits in a recess of the base and the pivot end contacts the recessed surface of the media drive bay.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.