US 7,017,875 B2Granted

Mounting bracket for disk drive

AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.

InventorsLi Ping Chen, Yuan-Lin Hsu

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Abstract

A mounting bracket (10) for holding a disk drive (30) includes a bottom wall (12), a first sidewall (14) extending upwardly from one side of the bottom wall with two locating pins (16) protruding inwardly therefrom corresponding to two fixing holes defined in a sidewall of the disk drive, a second sidewall extending upwardly from an opposite side of said bottom wall for sandwiching the disk drive with the first sidewall, and locking means for engaging with a second sidewall of the disk drive to retain the disk drive in the mounting bracket. In assembly, the disk drive is placed in the mounting bracket, and the locating pines are inserted into the fixing holes of the disk drive. With the other sidewall of the disk drive secured to the fixing structures of the mounting bracket, the disk drive is secured in the mounting bracket.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A mounting apparatus assembly comprising:

a storage device defining two opposite side faces with a plurality of fixing holes in at least one of said side faces;
and
a mounting bracket comprising:
a bottom wall;
opposite first and second side walls extending from two opposite side edges of the bottom wall, said storage device being seated upon the bottom wall with the two side faces respectively engaged with the corresponding side walls of the bracket;
and
a plurality of locating pins extending inwardly from the first side wall and received in the corresponding fixing holes, respectively;
wherein
said mounting bracket further includes a plurality of fixing structures located oppositely far away from the first side wall and fixing said storage device relative to the bracket, wherein
at least one of said first and second side walls is outwardly deflectable relative to the bottom wall for downward loading the storage device into the bracket;
wherein the second side wall comprises a first vertical wall, a second vertical wall and a horizontal connecting wall connecting the first and second vertical walls.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.