Alignment device of a hard disk drive bay
OwnerJui-Shu Huanginventor
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Abstract
An alignment device of a hard disk drive (HDD) bay has a casing, at least one door, and at least one alignment mechanism. The at least one door is mounted on a front sidewall of the casing. The at least one alignment mechanism is mounted on a rear sidewall of the casing. Each of the at least one alignment mechanism has a stationary seat, and an aligning panel and a torsion spring pivotally mounted on the stationary seat. The torsion spring pushes the aligning panel to pivot toward a lateral sidewall of the casing. When inserting an HDD into the casing and the HDD abuts against the aligning panel, the aligning panel pushes the HDD to slide laterally and align with the connector on the rear sidewall of the casing. Thus, pins on a rear end of the HDD can accurately plug into corresponding holes of the connector.
Claims8
An alignment device of a hard disk drive (HDD) bay comprising:
- a casing having
- at least one mounting chamber formed inside the casing;
- and
- at least one insertion opening formed through a front sidewall of the casing, and respectively corresponding in position to and communicating with the at least one mounting chamber;
- at least one door respectively mounted pivotally in the at least one insertion opening of the casing;
- and
- at least one alignment mechanism mounted on a rear sidewall of the casing, and respectively mounted in and corresponding in position to the at least one mounting chamber, each of the at least one alignment mechanism having
- a stationary seat securely mounted on the rear sidewall of the casing and having
- a first pivot recess;
- and
- a limiting protrusion formed in the first recess;
- an aligning panel having
- a pivoting end pivotally mounted in the first pivot recess of the stationary seat via a shaft;
- and
- a pushing end obliquely protruding into a corresponding one of the at least one mounting recess;
- and
- a torsion spring mounted around the shaft and having two ends respectively abutting against the stationary seat and the aligning panel;
- wherein the torsion spring pushes the aligning panel to pivot toward one of two lateral sidewalls of the casing;
- and
- the limiting protrusion of the stationary seat limits a pivoting angle of the aligning panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.