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US 6,618,244 B2Granted
Tilt mounted hard drive bay
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsBrad R. Wooden, Lane C. Cobb
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Abstract
A hinged disk drive bay for a server. The bay is hinged such that it moves between a stowed position in which the bay is vertical, and a tilted position in which the bay is open. When open, the connections are exposed to the user.
Claims23
A computer system comprising:
- a housing, having an internal portions with connections adapted for supporting parts;
- said housing also including an outer surface with a hinging surface thereon, and a drive chassis with drive mounting surfaces therein which holds a disk drive, said hinging surface including a hinge element allowing said drive chassis to be tilted between a first position in which the drive bay is mounted within said housing and a second position in which the drive bay is tilted such that a portion of the drive bay extends outside the housing.
A computer housing, comprising
- an internal portion, including surfaces for supporting computer parts including a hard drive controller;
- an external portion, including surfaces for supporting a tiltable part, which may be stowed into a first position entirely within the computer housing and tilted to a second position in which a portion of the tiltable part extends outside the housing.
A computer housing, comprising:
- a substantially rectangular box, having an inner part and an outer part;
- and
- a substantially rectangular tiltable part, connected to said outer part of said substantially rectangular box, and movable between a first position in which the tiltable part is entirely within said substantially rectangular box and a second position in which a part of the tiltable part is outside said substantially rectangular box.
A method, comprising:
- operating a computer with its hard drives in a first position in which platters of the hard drives spin in a designed for direction;
- and
- tilting said hard drives to a second position that is tilted relative to the first position, and which exposes connections of said hard drives to an area outside a computer housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.