Console drive
OwnerBill Kwong, Victor Chuan-Chen Wuinventors
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Abstract
A console drive that enables different sizes of storage devices to be conveniently added or removed from a computer or equipment without disassembling and reassembling the computer or equipment, having a console bay that is secured to a drive bay of the computer or equipment on the side by screws; a console tray that slides in and out of the console bay; and a console enclosure that slides in and out of the console tray for containing the storage devices and providing connection of the electrical signals of the storage devices.
Claims8
A console drive that enables different sizes of storage devices to be conveniently added or removed from a computer or equipment without disassembling and reassembling the computer or equipment, comprising,
- a console bay that is secured to a drive bay of the computer or equipment on a side by screws;
- a console tray that slides in and out of said console bay;
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- a console enclosure that slides in and out of said console tray containing the storage devices and providing connection of electrical signals of the storage devices, wherein said console enclosure turns an internal storage device into an external or removable storage device with a female MC-36 connector that mates securely with a male MC-36 connector inside said console bay when said console enclosure together with said console tray are fully inserted inside said console bay.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.