TW201603012A - Electronic device and mounting apparatus for hard disk drive - Google Patents

Abstract

A mounting apparatus includes a bracket receiving a hard disk drive, an abutting assembly located at a side of the hard disk drive, and a rotating assembly mounted to the bracket. The rotating assembly can be abutted against a rear end of the hard disk drive. The abutting assembly includes an abutting member slid along a fore-and-aft direction of the hard disk drive. The abutting member includes a piece for abutting against a front end of the hard disk drive. The rotating assembly includes a rotating member rotatably connected to the bracket and a striking member. The rotating member is rotated out, to abut against the striking member to rotate. The striking member abuts against the abutting member to slide toward rear, and the hard disk drive is pushed out of the bracket by the piece of the abutting member.

Description

Electronic device and hard disk drive fixing device thereof

The present invention relates to a hard disk drive fixing device and an electronic device provided with the hard disk drive fixing device.

In the prior art, when a hard disk drive is fixed in an electronic device, the hard disk drive is usually fixed to a fixed frame by screws, and then the hard disk drive and the fixed frame are inserted into the electronic device. The fixing bracket is locked to the electronic device. However, when installing and removing the hard disk drive, it is necessary to tighten or loosen a large number of screws, which is cumbersome to operate.

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a hard disk drive fixing device for easily attaching and detaching a hard disk drive and an electronic device provided with the hard disk drive fixing device.

A hard disk drive fixing device includes a bracket for accommodating a hard disk drive, an abutting component on one side of the hard disk drive, and a rotating component disposed on the bracket and capable of blocking a rear end of the hard disk drive. The urging assembly includes a urging member slidable forward and backward along the bracket, the urging member including a urging piece for urging the front end of the hard disk drive, the rotating assembly including a rotation rotatably coupled to the bracket And a rotating member rotating the rotating member outwardly, the rotating member is rotated against the rotating member, and the rotating member slides backward against the abutting member, and the pressing piece pushes the hard disk device out of the bracket.

An electronic device comprising a casing, a hard disk drive and a hard disk drive fixing device, wherein the hard disk drive fixing device comprises a bracket fixed in the casing for receiving the hard disk drive, and a hard disk drive a pressing assembly on one side and a rotating assembly disposed between the bracket and the housing and capable of blocking the rear end of the hard disk drive, the resisting assembly including a pushing member sliding back and forth along the bracket, the pushing member including a squeezing piece for urging the front end of the hard disk drive, the rotating component comprising a rotating member rotatably coupled to the bracket and a dialing member for rotating the rotating member outwardly, the rotating member resisting the dialing The moving member rotates, and the sliding member slides backward against the pushing member, and the pressing piece pushes the hard disk device out of the bracket.

Compared with the prior art, the hard disk drive of the hard disk drive fixing device is received in the bracket, and the rotating component is blocked at the rear end of the hard disk drive, and the hard disk drive can be fixed in the bracket; when disassembling, the outer disk is rotated outward. The rotating member pushes the rotating member to rotate, and the rotating member pushes the pressing member to slide, so that the pressing piece of the pressing member outwardly pushes the hard disk machine to slide out of the bracket, and the hard disk machine fixing device can Easy to disassemble the hard disk drive, no screws, easy to operate.

1 is a perspective exploded view of a preferred embodiment of a hard disk drive fixture of the present invention and a hard disk drive, the hard disk drive fixture including an anti-push assembly, a rotary member and a dial member.

FIG. 2 is another perspective view of FIG. 1. FIG.

3 is an exploded view of the thrust assembly of FIG. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the rotary member of Fig. 2;

Figure 5 is a perspective enlarged view of the toggle member of Figure 2;

Figure 6 is a partial assembled view of Figure 2.

7-9 are process diagrams showing the mounting of a hard disk drive to the hard disk drive fixture of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a schematic view of the hard disk drive fixing device of the present invention for removing the hard disk drive

1 and 2, the electronic device of the present invention includes a housing 200, a hard disk drive 300, and a hard disk drive fixture 100 for securing the hard disk drive 300 to the housing 200. A first connector 311 is disposed at a rear end of the hard disk drive 300. The hard disk drive fixture 100 includes a bracket 50, an anti-push assembly 60 and a rotating assembly 70.

The housing 200 includes a bottom plate 202 and a circuit board 23 vertically fixed to the front side of the bottom plate 202. The bottom plate 202 defines two rows of spaced locking holes 204 on the rear side of the circuit board 23, and each row of locking holes 204 is arrayed from the front side of the bottom plate 202 to the rear side. Two fixing pieces 205 are protruded upward from the bottom plate 202 between the two rows of locking holes 204. A rear side of the bottom plate 202 defines a strip-shaped cutout 206 between the two rows of locking holes 204. A first fixing hole 207 and a second fixing hole 208 are spaced apart from the rear side of the bottom plate 202. The first fixing hole 207 is closer to the rear edge of the bottom plate 202 than the second fixing hole 208. . A second connector 231 is disposed between the two rows of locking holes 204 on the rear side of the circuit board 23.

The bracket 50 includes a rectangular top plate 52, two side plates 53 extending vertically downward from opposite sides of the top plate 52, and two flanges 55 projecting perpendicularly outward from the bottom side of each side plate 53. Each of the flanges 55 opens a plurality of through holes 56 along its length. A cutout 521 is formed in the rear end of the top plate 52. A first positioning hole 523 and a second positioning hole 525 are defined in the rear end of the top plate 52. The first positioning hole 523 is closer to the rear edge of the top plate 52 than the second positioning hole 525. . The top plate 52 defines a plurality of through holes 526 on a side adjacent to the first positioning hole 523 . A card hole 532 is defined in the rear end of each side plate 53.

Referring to FIG. 3 , the urging assembly 60 includes a mounting frame 62 , a pushing member 63 , an elastic member 65 , and two screws 67 .

The mounting frame 62 includes a rectangular supporting plate 621, a first connecting plate 623 and a second connecting plate 625 extending perpendicularly from the upper and lower sides of the supporting plate 621. The support plate 621, the first connecting plate 623 and the second connecting plate 625 together define a mounting space 626. A first hook 6261 is protruded from the middle of the support plate 621 into the installation space 626. Two opposite ends of the support plate 621 are perpendicularly disposed to the mounting space 626. Two protrusions 6263 are defined in the mounting space 626. Each of the protrusions 6263 defines a screw hole 6265 in the axial direction. The first connecting plate 623 defines a plurality of locking holes 6231. The second connecting plate 625 defines two locking holes 629 at the front and rear ends of the side away from the supporting plate 621.

The abutting member 63 is substantially Z-shaped and includes a rectangular sliding plate 632 extending perpendicularly outward from the front end of the sliding plate 632, and a side of the sliding plate 635 extending away from the abutting piece 635 from the rear end of the sliding plate 632. A resisting piece 636 extends vertically. The middle portion of the sliding plate 632 defines a sliding slot 6361 along its length. A second hook 6363 protrudes from a rear end of the receiving slot 6321 toward a side of the resisting piece 636 . The front and rear ends of the sliding plate 632 respectively define a guiding groove 6365 along the longitudinal direction thereof.

The elastic member 65 is a coil spring, and includes a body 652 and a first engaging portion 654 and a second engaging portion 656 disposed at opposite ends of the body 652.

When the urging assembly 60 is assembled, the urging member 63 is received in the mounting space 626 of the mounting frame 62, so that the first hook 6261 of the mounting frame 62 is inserted into the sliding slot 6361 of the sliding plate 632, and each of the studs 6263 is inserted. The sliding plate 635 corresponding to the sliding plate 632 and the abutting piece 635 of the pushing member 63 protrude from the front end of the mounting frame 62. The first engaging portion 654 of the elastic member 65 is connected to the first hook 6261 of the mounting frame 62, and the second engaging portion 656 is connected to the resisting member 63. The second hook 6363. The two screws 67 are inserted into the two guide grooves 6365 of the abutting member 63 to be locked in the screw holes 6265 of the corresponding protrusions 6263. At this time, the urging member 63 is slidably mounted in the mounting frame 62 along the guide groove 6365. The elastic member 65 is elastically coupled between the first hook 6261 and the second hook 6363, forcing the urging member 63 to slide forward. The rear end wall of each of the guide grooves 6365 is stopped at the corresponding boss 6263.

Referring to FIGS. 1-2 and 4-5, the rotating assembly 70 includes a rotating member 72, a dial member 75, a first shaft 76 and a second shaft 78. The rotating member 72 includes a rectangular substrate 721, two connecting plates 723 extending perpendicularly outward from opposite sides of the substrate 721, and an elastic card fixed at the one end of the substrate 721 between the connecting plates 723. The buckle 724 and the opposite end of the base plate 721 are fixed to a push rod 725 between the two connecting plates 723. Each of the connecting plates 723 defines a shaft hole 726 adjacent to the push rod 725 and a circular arc guide groove 727 between the push rod 725 and the shaft hole. The guide groove 727 of each connecting plate 723 extends from the side adjacent to the substrate 721 with the corresponding shaft hole 726 as a center toward the other side of the connecting plate 723 away from the substrate 721. Each of the connecting plates 723 has a latching block 728 protruding from an end of the push rod 725. The buckle 724 protrudes outwardly from a block 7241. The dial 75 includes a rotating rod 752 and a generally L-shaped dial 753 protruding from the peripheral surface of the rotating rod 752. The dial piece 753 includes a connecting portion 7532 extending perpendicularly outward from the edge peripheral surface of the rotating rod 752 and a dial portion 7533 extending obliquely outward from a side of the connecting portion 7532 away from the rotating rod 752. The rotating rod 752 axially defines a shaft hole 755.

Referring to FIGS. 1-2 and 6-7 together, when the hard disk drive fixing device 100 is assembled, the second connecting plate 625 of the mounting frame 62 of the anti-pushing assembly 60 is supported on the bottom plate 202 of the housing 200. The abutting piece 635 of the pushing member 63 is adjacent to the circuit board 23, so that the two fixing pieces 205 on the bottom plate 202 are received in the two fixing holes 629 of the second connecting plate 625. The abutment assembly 60 is pushed forward so that each of the fastening pieces 205 is snapped into the corresponding fastening hole 629. At this time, the anti-pushing assembly 60 is fixed in the housing 200, and the resisting piece 635 is in close contact with the circuit board 23. The dialing member 75 is received between the two connecting plates 723 of the rotating member 72, so that the shaft hole 755 of the dialing member 75 faces the guiding slot 727 of the two connecting plates 723, and the dialing portion of the dialing piece 753 The 7533 faces away from the push rod 725. The rotating member 72 is supported on the bottom plate 202 such that the shaft hole 726 of the rotating member 72 faces the first fixing hole 207 of the bottom plate 202, and the shaft hole 755 of the dial member 75 is fixed to the bottom plate 202. Hole 208. The bracket 50 is disposed on the bottom plate 202 such that the through hole 46 of each flange 55 faces the locking hole 204 of the bottom plate 202, the notch 521 faces the notch 206 of the bottom plate 202, and the first positioning hole 523 and the The two positioning holes 525 are respectively opposite to the shaft hole 726 of the rotating member 72 and the shaft hole 755 of the dialing member 75. The through hole 526 of the bracket 50 is opposite to the locking hole 6231 of the first connecting plate 623 of the mounting frame 62 and the bracket The through hole 56 of 50 is facing the locking hole 204 of the bottom plate 202. The first shaft 76 passes through the first positioning hole 523, the shaft hole 726 of the connecting plate 723 on the upper side of the rotating member 72, and the shaft hole 726 of the connecting plate 723 on the lower side of the rotating member 72, and is locked to the bottom plate 202. A rotating member 72 is pivotally connected to the bracket 50 in a fixing hole 207. The second shaft 78 passes through the second positioning hole 525, the guide groove 727 of the connecting plate 723 on the upper side of the rotating member 72, the shaft hole 755 of the dialing member 75, and the connecting plate 723 on the lower side of the rotating member 72, and the lock The dial 75 is pivotally coupled to the bracket 50 in the second fixing hole 208 of the bottom plate 202. The plurality of fasteners 528 are inserted from the outside of the bracket 50 through the through holes 526 and locked in the corresponding locking holes 6231 of the mounting frame 62. The plurality of fasteners are passed through the through holes 526 and locked in the corresponding locking holes 204 of the bottom plate 202. At this time, the bracket 50 and the bottom plate 202 define a receiving space 58. The rotating member 72 is rotatably connected between the bottom plate 202 and the top plate 52 of the bracket 50 by a first shaft 76. The push rod 725 The connecting portion 7532 that slidably pushes the dialing piece 753 rotates the dialing piece 753 along the second shaft 78 until the dialing portion 7533 of the dialing piece 753 abuts against the front side of the resisting piece 636.

Referring to FIGS. 7-9 together, when the hard disk drive 300 is mounted, the rotating member 72 is rotated away from the bracket 50 until the rotating member 72 is substantially perpendicular to the circuit board 23. At this time, the push rod 725 slidably urges the push lever 75 to rotate, and the dial portion 7533 of the dial piece 753 abuts against the front side of the resisting piece 636. One end of the hard disk drive 300 provided with the first connector 311 is inserted into the accommodating space 58. The rotating member 72 is rotated toward the bracket 50. The rotating member 72 abuts against the hard disk drive 300. The latch 728 of the rotating member 72 is engaged in the latching hole 532 of the one side plate 53 of the bracket 50. The latch 724 Slidingly abutting the rear end of the other side plate 53 of the bracket 50, the buckle 724 is elastically deformed, and the latch 7241 of the buckle 724 is directly in the hole 532 of the other side plate 53. The buckle 724 The deformation is restored to cause the block 7241 to snap into the card hole 532 of the other side plate 53. At this time, the rotating member 72 is abutted against the end surface of the hard disk drive 300 away from the first connector 311, and the first connector 311 of the hard disk drive 300 is electrically connected to the second connector 231 of the circuit board 23, The hard disk drive 300 is provided with an abutting piece 635 whose end surface of the first connector 311 abuts against the pushing member 63.

Referring to FIG. 10, when the hard disk drive 300 is detached, the buckle 724 is pressed inwardly to elastically deform the buckle 724 until the block 7241 is disengaged from the corresponding card hole 532. Rotating the rotating member 72 outwardly, the push rod 725 of the rotating member 72 slidably abuts against the connecting portion 7532 of the dialing piece 753 to rotate the dialing piece 753, so that the dialing portion 7533 of the dialing piece 753 is pushed against The front side of the abutting piece 636 causes the abutting member 63 to slide rearward along the guide groove 6365, and the elastic member 65 is elastically deformed. The ejector piece 635 of the urging member 63 pushes the hard disk drive 300 backward to disengage the first connector 311 of the hard disk drive 300 from the second connector 231. The hard disk drive 300 is away from the first One end of the connector 311 is slid between the notch 206 of the bottom plate 202 and the notch 521 of the bracket 50. The hard disk drive 300 is taken out from the notch 206 and the notch 521 to release the rotation of the rotating member 72. The elastic member 65 is elastically deformed, and the resisting member 63 is slid forward. The resisting piece 63 of the resisting member 63 is 636. The dial piece 753 is rotated and reset until the rotating member 72 is substantially perpendicular to the circuit board 23.

In summary, the present invention has indeed met the requirements of the invention patent, and has filed a patent application according to law. However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it is not possible to limit the scope of the patent application of the present invention. Equivalent modifications or variations made by persons skilled in the art in light of the spirit of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.

100‧‧‧hard disk drive

50‧‧‧ bracket

52‧‧‧ top board

53‧‧‧ side panels

532‧‧‧Kakong

55‧‧‧Flange

56, 526‧‧‧through holes

523‧‧‧First positioning hole

525‧‧‧Second positioning hole

58‧‧‧ accommodating space

60‧‧‧Resist the component

62‧‧‧Installation box

621‧‧‧Support board

623‧‧‧First connecting plate

625‧‧‧Second connection plate

626‧‧‧ installation space

6261‧‧‧First hook

6263‧‧‧Bump

6265‧‧‧ screw hole

6231‧‧‧Lock hole

629‧‧‧Cargukong

63‧‧‧Reminder

632‧‧‧ Skateboarding

635‧‧‧Reminder

636‧‧‧Resistance film

6361‧‧ ‧ chute

6363‧‧‧Second hook

6365‧‧‧ Guide slot

65‧‧‧Flexible parts

652‧‧‧ Ontology

654‧‧‧First card joint

656‧‧‧Second card joint

67‧‧‧ screws

70‧‧‧Rotating components

72‧‧‧Rotating parts

721‧‧‧Substrate

723‧‧‧Connecting plate

724‧‧‧ buckle

7241‧‧‧ block

725‧‧‧Put

726, 755‧‧‧ shaft hole

727‧‧‧guide chute

728‧‧‧ card block

75‧‧‧WD parts

752‧‧‧Rotary rod

753‧‧‧3

7532‧‧‧Connecting Department

7533‧‧‧The Ministry of Movement

76‧‧‧First axis

78‧‧‧Second axis

200‧‧‧shell

202‧‧‧floor

23‧‧‧ Circuit board

231‧‧‧Second connector

204‧‧‧Lock hole

205‧‧‧Card

206, 521‧‧ ‧ gap

207‧‧‧First fixing hole

208‧‧‧Second fixing hole

300‧‧‧ Hard disk drive

311‧‧‧First connector

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55‧‧‧Flange

62‧‧‧Installation box

632‧‧‧ Skateboarding

635‧‧‧Reminder

636‧‧‧Resistance film

65‧‧‧Flexible parts

72‧‧‧Rotating parts

724‧‧‧ buckle

725‧‧‧Put

727‧‧‧guide chute

75‧‧‧WD parts

76‧‧‧First axis

78‧‧‧Second axis

202‧‧‧floor

23‧‧‧ Circuit board

300‧‧‧ Hard disk drive

311‧‧‧First connector

Claims (10)

A hard disk drive fixing device includes a bracket for accommodating a hard disk drive, an abutting component on one side of the hard disk drive, and a rotating component disposed on the bracket and capable of blocking a rear end of the hard disk drive. The urging assembly includes a urging member slidable forward and backward along the bracket, the urging member including a urging piece for urging the front end of the hard disk drive, the rotating assembly including a rotation rotatably coupled to the bracket And a rotating member rotating the rotating member outwardly, the rotating member is rotated against the rotating member, and the rotating member slides backward against the abutting member, and the pressing piece pushes the hard disk device out of the bracket. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 1, wherein the anti-pushing assembly further comprises a mounting frame fixed to the bracket, the anti-pushing member comprising a sliding plate slidably received in the mounting frame, the sliding plate a backing piece extending perpendicularly to the hard disk drive, the resisting piece extending perpendicularly from the front end of the sliding plate toward the hard disk machine, the dialing member abutting the resisting piece to make the sliding plate backward slide. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 2, wherein the rotating member is rotated inwardly, the rotating member abuts the rear end of the hard disk drive to slide the hard disk drive forward, the hard disk drive The front end pushes the urging piece to slide the urging member forward, and the hard disk drive is fixed in the bracket. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 2, wherein the sliding plate defines a guiding slot along a sliding direction of the sliding plate, and the mounting frame protrudes from a protruding post slidably received in the guiding groove. The hard disk machine fixing device according to the second aspect of the invention, wherein the sliding plate defines a sliding slot along a sliding direction of the sliding plate, and the mounting frame protrudes from a first hook slidingly received in the sliding slot. A second hook is protruded from the sliding slot adjacent to the rotating member. The resisting assembly further includes an elastic member. The two ends of the elastic member are coupled to the first hook and the second hook. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 5, wherein the two connecting plates open opposite arcuate two guiding chutes adjacent to the push rod, and the dialing member comprises slidingly receiving the two guiding slots. a rotating rod rotatably connected to the bracket and a dial piece protruding from a side of the rotating rod, the rotating rod rotating to drive the dialing piece to push the pushing member to slide. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 6, wherein the dial piece comprises a connecting portion extending perpendicularly from a side of the rotating rod and extending obliquely outward from a side of the connecting portion away from the rotating rod One can push the toggle portion of the pusher. The hard disk drive fixing device of claim 1, wherein the rotating member comprises a substrate, two connecting plates extending perpendicularly outward from opposite sides of the substrate, and one end of the substrate is fixed at the substrate An elastic buckle between the two connecting plates and a push rod fixed at the opposite end of the substrate between the two connecting plates, the rotating member is provided with two connecting plates at one end of the push rod and is rotatably connected to the bracket. An electronic device comprising a casing, a hard disk drive and a hard disk drive fixing device, wherein the hard disk drive fixing device comprises a bracket fixed in the casing for receiving the hard disk drive, and a hard disk drive a pressing assembly on one side and a rotating assembly disposed between the bracket and the housing and capable of blocking the rear end of the hard disk drive, the resisting assembly including a pushing member sliding back and forth along the bracket, the pushing member including a squeezing piece for urging the front end of the hard disk drive, the rotating component comprising a rotating member rotatably coupled to the bracket and a dialing member for rotating the rotating member outwardly, the rotating member resisting the dialing The moving member rotates, and the sliding member slides backward against the pushing member, and the pressing piece pushes the hard disk device out of the bracket. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the anti-pushing assembly further comprises a mounting frame fixed between the bracket and the housing, the anti-pushing member comprising a sliding plate slidably received in the mounting frame And a resisting piece extending from the rear end of the sliding plate to the hard disk machine, the resisting piece extending perpendicularly from the front end of the sliding plate toward the hard disk machine, the pushing member abutting the resisting piece Slide the skateboard back.