JP2003012079A - Storage disk storing case - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage disk storing case having a storage means capable of storing a sufficient capacity of information on storage disks stored in the case and information on this case. SOLUTION: The storage disk storing case is composed of a main body case 11 and a lid 12. A plurality of hard disks 10 are arranged in such a manner that their respective axes are substantially aligned with one another by guide grooves 20 provided in the main body case 11 to be stored therein, and it is designed so that they are pressed from above by a pressing member 15 mounted inside the lid 12. A cylindrical holding portion 33 is formed at a part of the main body case 11, and an IC tag 35 is attached thereto.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a storage disk storage case, and more particularly to a storage disk storage case in which storage disks are arranged and stored so that their axes are substantially aligned with each other.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hard disks are widely used as recording media for computers and the like. A hard disk is a disk-shaped aluminum substrate or glass substrate on which a thin magnetic layer is formed. Then, while contacting the magnetic head while rotating the hard disk,
Information is read and written by the principle of electromagnetic induction or magnetic induction.

Such a hard disk substrate, master disk,
Alternatively, a storage disk storage case has been conventionally used for carrying or storing an intermediate product or a finished product.
This type of storage disk storage case is for storing storage disks in a state where their axes are substantially aligned with each other, and a U-shaped cut is formed at the side end of the case. Through the notch, it is possible to access the hard disk or its intermediate product with a robot hand or the like. As a result, the manufacturing process is automated and the hard disk or its intermediate product is prevented from being contaminated.

[0004]

A storage disk storage case for storing a substrate, an intermediate product disk, or a finished product of a hard disk when manufacturing a hard disk as described above relates to a storage disk to be stored therein. It is necessary to hold information, for example, information indicating a processing step and information regarding a product number. Alternatively, it is preferable to store information about the case itself, for example, how many times this case has been used and whether it has been washed after use.

It is contemplated to use a bar code to store information about a storage disk or case housed in such a case. However, the bar code has a drawback that not only the storage capacity thereof is small, but also the content cannot be freely rewritten.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is possible to store information about a storage disk housed therein, its substrate, or an intermediate product, and information about a case. An object is to provide a storage disk storage case.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A main invention of the present application is to provide a bottomed main body case in which an upper portion is opened and an array of storage disks is housed therein so that their axes are substantially aligned with each other. The present invention relates to a storage disk storage case including a lid mounted so as to cover an upper opening of the case, and a storage unit that stores information about a storage disk stored inside or information about the case.

Here, the storage means may be composed of a button-shaped IC tag and held by a holding portion formed on the outer surface of the main body case. Further, a cut may be formed in at least one end of the main body case in the arrangement direction of the storage disks, the cut substantially corresponding to a central portion of the storage disks, and a tongue piece that closes the cut may be continuously provided on a side end of the lid. .
Also, a lock portion is provided at the tip of the tongue piece of the lid body, and the lock portion is engaged with the locked portion located below the notch of the body case from the inside of the body case, and is pushed by the pusher from the outside. The lock may be released by pressing the lock portion. Further, a pressing member is attached to the inside of the lid, the pressing member presses the storage disks arranged in the main body case from above, and a biasing force is applied to the lid to lock by the lock portion. When released, the lid may be separated upward from the main body case. Further, a small hole for draining water may be formed in the bottom of the main body case. Further, a pair of protrusions are formed symmetrically on the outer surface of the side end of the main body case, and the lower end of the protrusions is notched, and when the stepped portions of the notched protrusions are stacked, A pair of vertical ribs may be engaged with the opening edge portion of the body case, and the pair of vertical ribs inside the opening edge portion may restrict the side end of the body case from the width direction.

According to such a storage disk storage case, it becomes possible to store information about the storage disk housed inside by the storage means or information about this case. Note that the storage disk includes not only a storage disk as a finished product such as a hard disk but also its substrate and intermediate products.

[0010]

1 to 8 show the entire structure of a storage disk storage case according to an embodiment of the present invention. This storage disk storage case is particularly shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 8, it is composed of a disk-shaped hard disk 10, a main body case 11 that accommodates the hard disk 10 arranged in the axial direction, and a lid 12 that closes the upper opening of the main body case 11. To be done. A pressing member 15 that presses the upper surface of the hard disk 10 is attached to the inside of the lid 12.

Next, referring to FIG. 9 to FIG.
Will be described. The main body case 11 is made of, for example, a molded product of polypropylene or polycarbonate resin containing 8 to 10% by weight of carbon powder. The main body case 11 is a substantially box-shaped container having an open top and a closed bottom. A small hole 18 is formed in each corner of the bottom plate 17 to form a pair of water drain holes. Further, on the inside of the side plate on the long side of the main body case 11, there are formed ridges 19 so as to face each other, and a guide groove 20 is provided between the ridges 19.

In this embodiment, 26 ridges are formed on both sides, and 25 guide grooves 20 are formed between them. As a result, 25
The hard disks 10 are stored in a state of being arranged in the axial direction.

U-shaped notches 22 are formed at both ends of the hard disk 10 in the axial direction. The ribs 2 projecting outward are provided at the peripheral portions of these notches 22.
3 are serially installed. Then, on both sides of the rib 23, ridges 24 are formed symmetrically extending in the up-down direction. The lower end side of the protrusion 24 is cut out at a position slightly higher than the bottom to form a notch 25. A locked portion 26 formed of a rectangular opening is formed below the U-shaped cut 22. A shielding projection 29 is formed on the inside so as to face the locked portion 26. A pair of ribs 27 extending in the vertical direction is formed inside the side plate in which the U-shaped cut 22 is formed. Further, a notch 28 is formed at the lower end of the side plate and in the middle of the ribs 24 on both sides.

A flange 31 is formed along the outside of the peripheral edge of the upper opening 30 of the body case 11. The lower side of the flange 31 is a bulge 32. A ridge 34 extending in the lateral direction is formed at an intermediate position of the bulging portion 32. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 11, the lateral projection amount of the protrusion 34 is substantially equal to that of the flange 31, so that the plurality of cases do not tilt when they are arranged side by side in contact with each other. ing. Further, on the outer surface of the main body case 11 below the bulging portion 32, two pairs of anti-slip projections 36 are formed at three locations thereof. Further, a tubular holding portion 33 is formed diagonally below the locked portion 26 of the side plate of the main body case 11 in which the U-shaped cut 22 is formed, and the IC tag 35 is held by the tubular holding portion 33. ing.

Next, the lid 12 that closes the upper opening 30 of the body case 11 will be described with reference to FIGS. The lid 12 is made of a polypropylene resin molding containing 8 to 10% by weight of carbon powder, and is a flat lid having a size substantially aligned with the upper opening 30 of the main body case 11. Tongue pieces 38 are formed on both sides. The tongue piece 38 is provided with bulging portions 39 which are aligned with the U-shaped notches 22 at both ends of the main body case 11, and the notches 22 are closed by aligning the bulging portions 39 with the notches 22.

A lock piece 40 is formed on the tip side of the tongue piece 38, and a lock claw 41 is provided on the outer side of the lock piece 40. The lock claw 41 is engaged with the rectangular opening 26 on the lower side of the U-shaped notch 22 of the main body case 11, whereby the lid 12 is locked. Further, three cylindrical holding portions 42 are formed on the lower side of the upper portion of the lid body 12, and these holding portions 42
The holding member 15 is held by.

Next, the holding member 15 attached to the inside of the top plate of the lid 12 will be described with reference to FIGS. The pressing member 15 is integrally provided with the same number of pressing pieces 45 as the hard disks 10, that is, 25 pressing pieces 45 on both sides thereof.
The tip ends of these pressing pieces 45 are constituted by arcuate pressing portions 46 protruding downward. These pressing portions 46 are the peripheral portions of the hard disk 10 inside the main body case 11 and press the upper end portions thereof. Also, presser member 1
A pair of ribs 47 are formed in parallel with each other on the upper surface of 5, and three pins 48 are provided upright between the ribs 47. The pin 48 is fitted into the tubular holding portion 42 of the lid body 12, so that the pressing member 15 is held inside the upper surface of the lid body 12.

As described above, the storage disk storage case of this embodiment stores 25 hard disks 10 by the 25 guide grooves 20 formed inside the long side plates of the main body case 11. . In such a state, the upper opening 30 of the main body case 11
Is covered with the lid 12. At this time, the lid 12
Is fitted to the opening edge portion of the main body case 11, and the peripheral edge portion is joined to the flange 31.

Further, the U-shaped notch 22 of the main body case 11 is aligned with the bulging portion 39 of the tongue piece 38 of the lid body 12, whereby the U-shaped notch 22 is closed. The lock claw 41 of the lock piece 40 on the tip end side of the tongue piece 38 enters the inside of the main body case 11 and engages with the locked portion 26 formed of a rectangular opening from the inside. By this, the main body case 11
The lid 12 is locked against. Even if particles are generated during the engaging operation and the releasing operation of the lock claw 41 of the lock piece 40 and the opening 26, the particles are shielded by the shielding projection 29, and the hard disk 10 is not contaminated by the particles.

When the locking claw 41 of the locking piece 40 is engaged with the locked portion 26 and is locked, the arcuate pressing of the pressing piece 45 of the pressing member 15 mounted inside the lid 12 on the tip side. The portion 46 elastically presses the outer peripheral portion of the hard disk 10 from above. That is, when the lid 12 is completely attached to the main body case 11, the pressing piece 45 presses the hard disk 10 while elastically deforming. Therefore, the hard disk 10 housed and held inside does not rattle in this case.

When stacking such storage disk storage cases in a plurality of stages, as shown in FIG. 18 and FIG.
The notch 25 on the lower end side of the protrusion 24 of the main body case 11 located on the upper stage is engaged with the opening edge portion of the upper surface of the main body case 11 located on the lower stage, and the notch 25 of the protrusion 24 is on the lower case. Is engaged with the rib 27 on the inner side of. That is, both sides in the width direction of the main body case 11 are regulated by the ribs 27 inside the lower main body case 11. Therefore, when the cases are stacked, they are stably held.

The lock claw 41 of the lock piece 40 on the tip side of the tongue piece 38 of the lid 12 is engaged with the locked portion 26 from the inside of the main body case 11 as shown in FIG. Therefore, the lock of the lid 12 is released by pressing the lock claw 41 inward from the outside through the rectangular opening 26 by the pusher 51 of the robot hand.

Moreover, the holding member 15 mounted inside the lid 12 holds the hard disk 10 housed in the main body case 11 from above with the holding piece 45 elastically deformed. Therefore, when the lock of the lid 12 is released, the lid 12 automatically floats upward due to the elastic restoring force of the pressing piece 45 and is detached from the main body case 11.

By such an operation, the main body case 11
The removal operation of the lid body 12 with respect to is greatly facilitated. In addition, the pusher 51 only needs to press the lock claw 41 in the rectangular opening 26 from the outside, and the unlocking operation can be a very simple operation.

The storage disk storage case is composed of the main body case 11 and the lid body 12. Since the main body case 11 is composed of a bottomed case, the number of parts is reduced. Further, since it is not necessary to attach another lower lid body for closing the bottom opening, dust is not generated due to the attachment of the lid body for closing the bottom opening, thereby preventing the hard disk 10 from being soiled. It

Although the main body case 11 is composed of a bottomed case, since the pair of small holes 18 for draining water are formed at the four corners of the case, the inside is washed with pure water. It can be used repeatedly later.
At this time, there is an advantage that the small holes 18 can be used for quick drainage, which facilitates the washing process.

The storage disk storage case is shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 3, a tubular holding portion 33 is formed on a part of the side plate on the axial direction side, and the holding portion 33 holds the IC tag 35. As shown in FIG. 21, the IC tag 35 includes a semiconductor memory 54, a memory drive circuit 55,
An IC chip including a transmission / reception circuit 56 is molded together with a patterned antenna 57 in a disk-shaped plastic molded body. And such an IC
The tag 35 exchanges radio waves with an antenna 59 of an external reader / writer 58 at a close range, thereby making it possible to write various information in the semiconductor memory 54 of the IC tag 35.

Information about each step of the hard disk 10 manufactured by the storage disk storage case is written in the IC tag 35. Further, information such as the lot and type of the hard disk 10 is written. Further, the information regarding the case 11 is also written in the IC tag 35 at the same time.

Moreover, the writing of information to the IC tag 35 can be arbitrarily erased by the reader / writer 58 from the outside, and another information can be written again. Therefore, the IC tag 35 can be repeatedly used after being removed from the body case 11. The reader / writer 58 is usually connected to the computer 60 so that information can be written or read through the computer 60. Therefore, according to such a storage disk storage case, it is possible to determine the contents in the storage disk storage case in a non-contact manner, and it is possible to easily know up to what process has been processed at present. Alternatively, information on the number of times the case 11 has been used and how it has been washed can be surely known, which makes it possible to more effectively prevent the hard disk 10 from being soiled.

In this storage disk storage case, the main body case 11 is made of polypropylene or polycarbonate mixed with carbon powder, and the lid 12 is made of polypropylene mixed with carbon powder. Therefore, it is electrically conductive and has electrostatic properties, and the adhesion of dust due to static electricity is prevented. For this reason, the hard disk 10 is more reliably prevented from being soiled.

Next, another embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, a U-shaped cut 22 is formed only on one side end of the main body case 11. That is, the U-shaped notch 22 is formed only on one side end in the arrangement direction of the hard disks 10 in the axial direction, and the other side end is closed. According to such a shape, the lid body 12 is provided with the tongue piece 38 only at one side end portion. The rest of the configuration is the same as that of the above embodiment.

Since such a storage disk storage case has a structure in which the U-shaped notch 22 is formed only at one side end of the main body case 11, the U-shaped notch 2
The hard disk 10 is handled by accessing it with a robot hand or the like from the side end on which 2 is formed. Even in such a case, the IC tag 35 is attached to the cylindrical holding portion 33, so that information about the hard disk 10 or the case is stored.

Although the invention included in the present application has been described above with reference to the illustrated embodiments, the invention included in the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments and is within the scope of the technical idea of the invention included in the present application. Various changes are possible. For example, the above embodiment relates to a storage case of a hard disk in which a thin magnetic layer is formed on an aluminum substrate or a glass substrate, but the invention included in the present application is widely applicable to storage cases of other various storage disks. .

[0034]

The main invention of the present application is that the upper part is opened,
The present invention relates to a bottomed main body case that stores storage disks arranged in an array such that their axes are substantially aligned with each other, a lid body that is attached so as to cover an upper opening of the main body case, and a storage disk that is stored inside. And storage means for storing information or information relating to this case.

Therefore, according to such a storage disk storage case, it becomes possible to store the information about the storage disk housed inside by the storage means or the information about this case, whereby process control and case It is possible to more reliably manage the number of times of use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing the overall structure of a storage disk storage case.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the same closed state.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the same closed state.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the same closed state.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the same closed state.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the same closed state.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the case, a part of which is cut away.

FIG. 8 is a vertical sectional view of the case.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a main body case.

FIG. 10 is a vertical sectional view of a main body case.

FIG. 11 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the body case in the width direction.

FIG. 12 is a plan view of a lid body.

FIG. 13 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a lid body.

FIG. 14 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the lid body in the width direction.

FIG. 15 is a side view of a pressing member.

FIG. 16 is a bottom view of the pressing member.

FIG. 17 is a cross-sectional view of the pressing member in the width direction.

FIG. 18 is a perspective view showing a positioning structure when stacking.

FIG. 19 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 20 is a cross-sectional view of essential parts showing an unlocking operation.

FIG. 21 is a block diagram showing writing of information by an IC tag.

FIG. 22 is an exploded perspective view showing a storage disk storage case of a modified example.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 hard disk 11 body case 12 Lid 15 Presser member 17 Bottom plate 18 small holes (drain holes) 19 ridges 20 guide groove 22 U-shaped notch 23 ribs 24 ridges 25 notches 26 Locked part (rectangular opening) 27 vertical ribs 28 Notches 29 Shield projection 30 Upper opening 31 flange 32 bulge 33 Cylindrical holding part 34 ridges 35 IC tag 36 Anti-slip protrusion 38 tongue 39 bulge 40 lock pieces 41 lock claw 42 Cylindrical holding part 45 Presser piece 46 Arc-shaped pressing part 47 ribs 48 pins 51 pusher 54 Semiconductor memory 55 Memory drive circuit 56 Transmitter / receiver circuit 57 antenna 58 Reader / Writer 59 antenna 60 computers

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A body case having a bottom, which has an open top and accommodates storage disks arranged therein so that their axes are substantially aligned with each other, and a lid attached so as to cover an upper opening of the body case. A storage disk storage case comprising a body, and storage means for storing information regarding a storage disk stored inside or information regarding this case. 2. The storage disk storage case according to claim 1, wherein the storage means is composed of a button-shaped IC tag and is held by a holding portion formed on the outer surface of the main body case. . 3. A notch that substantially corresponds to the center of the storage disc is formed at least at one end of the main body case in the arrangement direction of the storage disc, and a tongue piece that closes the notch is connected to a side end of the lid body. The storage disk storage case according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the storage disk storage case is provided. 4. A lock portion is provided at a tip portion of a tongue piece of the lid body, and the lock portion is engaged with a locked portion located below a notch of the main body case from the inside of the main body case, The storage disk storage case according to claim 3, wherein the lock is released by pressing the lock portion from the outside with a pusher. 5. A pressing member is attached to the inside of the lid,
The pressing member presses the storage disks arranged in the main body case from above, and applies an urging force to the lid body to release the lock by the lock portion, so that the lid body is attached to the main body case. 5. The storage disk storage case according to claim 4, wherein the storage disk storage case is detached upwards. 6. The storage disk storage case according to claim 1, wherein a small hole for draining water is formed in the bottom portion of the main body case. 7. A pair of protrusions are formed symmetrically on the outer surface of the side end of the main body case, the lower end portion of the protrusions is cut out, and the step portions of the notched protrusions are stacked. The pair of vertical ribs inside the opening edge portion are sometimes engaged with the opening edge portion of the main body case at a lower stage, and the side edges of the main body case are restricted from the width direction. The storage disk storage case according to claim 6.