Portable electronic apparatus, disk drive unit, loading member, and computer housing
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMitsuo Horiuchi, Fusanobu Nakamura, Fumio Tamura
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Abstract
A slope of an HDD door comes in contact with a slope formed on a lower wall. At this time, when screws of the HDD door are fastened, a fastening force is generated at the HDD door in a direction parallel to the plane direction of the PC housing. The HDD united with the HDD door moves slightly in a parallel direction in proportion to the fastening degree of the screws. At this time, the slope slides to go up on the slope, so the HDD moves slightly upward. When the screws are fastened fully up to the allowable torque, the HDD is firmly attached to the upper wall.
Claims7
A portable computer system comprising:
- a housing having a slot;
- and
- a loading member for loading a disk drive unit in said slot;
- and
- a slope member having a slope at a predetermined angle along a loading direction of said disk drive, wherein said slope member is formed on said loading member.
A disk drive unit to be attached/removed to/from a computer apparatus, said disk drive unit comprising:
- a body having a front end and a rear end, wherein said body is capable of being inserted in said computer apparatus from said rear end;
- a loading member for loading said disk drive unit in said computer apparatus;
- a slope member having a slope along a first side and a second side of said body, wherein said slope member is formed at said loading member.
A loading member for enabling a disk drive unit to be loaded in a slot formed within a housing of a computer apparatus, said loading member comprising:
- a fixing member to be fixed to said disk drive unit;
- a slope member having a slope inclined in one direction for loading said disk drive unit;
- and
- a gripping member to be gripped when said disk drive unit is being loaded in said slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.