CN201903817U - HDD carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a hard disk carrier, it contains two side slide rails and a leader's spare. The two side sliding rails are used for being fixed on two opposite sides of a hard disk. The handle member includes an elongated housing and a lock member. The long strip shell is pivoted to one of the two side sliding rails and is provided with an operation window. The locking piece is connected in the strip shell in a sliding mode and comprises a strip body, a fastener and an elastic piece. The strip body is provided with a digging hole for a user to pass through the operation window to move the locking piece by fingers. The fastener is positioned at one end of the strip body and is used for protruding out of one end of the strip shell and inserting into a corresponding fastening groove of the hard disk groove. The elastic piece is positioned at the other opposite end of the long strip body, thereby providing the elastic force required by the fastener to be inserted into the corresponding fastening groove of the hard disk groove.

Description

HDD carrier

technical field

The utility model relates to a hard disk carrier.

Background technique

Hard Disk Drive (HDD for short) is a non-volatile (non-volatile) storage device based on a hard rotating platter on a computer. Hard drives store digital data on a flat magnetic surface. Information is written to the disk by electromagnetic currents that change polarity through a read/write head that is very close to the magnetic surface. Information can also be read in the opposite way, such as a magnetic field causing a change in electricity in a coil or a read/write head passing over the hard disk.

"Disk array" is often used in servers because of its advantages such as fast transmission rate, increased storage capacity, increased data security and stability, increased I/O per second, and fast and easy management of large amounts of data. Disk array cabinets are most often used on large servers and have the feature of hot swapping (HotSwap).

Because of the need for hot swap (Hot Swap), hard drives on servers generally have hard drive carriers that are easy to disassemble. When the hard disk bay of a disk array cabinet is designed as "vertical insertion and removal", if the size of the hard disk carrier is too large, the disk array cabinet needs to be very thick, and it will occupy a large space on the servo rack. Generally, a hard disk carrier also has a cooling module (such as a heat sink or a fan), which also increases the size of the hard disk carrier and the hard disk array cabinet.

How to reduce the size of the hard disk carrier, and then reduce the thickness of the disk array cabinet is one of the important links in the design of the current disk array.

Utility model content

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk carrier suitable for vertical insertion and extraction.

According to the above purpose, a hard disk carrier is provided, which includes two side rails and a handle. The two side slide rails are used for fixing on two opposite sides of a hard disk. The handle includes a long shell and a lock. The long housing is pivotally connected to one of the two side slide rails and has an operation window. The lock piece is slidably connected in the strip housing, and includes a strip body, a buckle and an elastic piece. The elongated body has a cutout hole for the user to move the lock with fingers through the operation window. The buckle is located at one end of the strip body, and is used for protruding from one end of the strip housing and inserting into a corresponding buckle slot of a hard disk slot. The elastic part is located at the other opposite end of the elongated body, so as to provide the elastic force required for the fastener to be inserted into the corresponding buckle slot of the hard disk slot.

According to an embodiment of the utility model, the elongated body, the fastener and the elastic member are integrally formed plastic parts.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the pivoting end of the elongated housing and one of the two side slide rails has a pivoting groove for connecting to the pivoting rod next to the opening of the hard disk slot.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the elastic member is a V-shaped member.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, each side slide rail has a plurality of locking holes for screws to pass through and be locked to the corresponding locking holes of the hard disk.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, each side slide rail has a plurality of arched parts, so as to be positioned on the inner sidewall of the hard disk slot.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, each side slide rail is an integrally formed plastic part.

According to another embodiment of the utility model, the elongated housing is a plastic part integrally formed.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the elongated housing is pivotally connected to one of the two side slide rails by a shaft.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the shaft has a C-shaped section.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the handle member is located on the opposite side of the hard disk with the electrical connector.

From the above, it can be known that the design of the hard disk carrier of the present invention uses the design of the lock piece to be slidably connected to the elongated housing, so that the thickness of the handle piece can be effectively reduced, and the longitudinal length of the hard disk module can be reduced, thereby reducing the size of the disk array. cabinet thickness. In addition, the design of the handle can also facilitate the user to pull out the hard disk module from the hard disk slot.

Description of drawings

In order to make the above and other purposes, features, advantages and embodiments of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the accompanying drawings are described as follows:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a hard disk module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a vertically pulling out a hard disk array according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view illustrating the hard disk module of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the shaft of FIG. 3 .

[Description of main reference signs]

100 hard disk modules

102 hard drives

102a side

102b side

102e electrical connector

103 screw holes

104a side slide rail

104b side slide rail

105 keyhole

105a shaft hole

106 screw

107a arched piece

107b arched piece

108 shaft

109 Handles

110 long shell

110a shaft hole

110b pivot groove

110c operating window

110d opening

112 lock

112a elastic piece

112b cut hole

112c fastener

113 hard disk slot

113a pivot rod

113b buckle slot

114 shrapnel

115 direction

116 hard disk array cabinet

116a fan

140 direction

Detailed ways

As mentioned above, the utility model provides a hard disk carrier suitable for "vertical insertion and removal", so as to reduce the thickness of the disk array cabinet and increase the convenience and speed of hard disk insertion and removal. The structure and usage of the hard disk carrier will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which shows a perspective view of a hard disk module according to an embodiment of the present invention. The hard disk module 100 basically includes a hard disk 102 and its hard disk carrier. The hard disk carrier includes two side rails ( 104 a ; 104 b ) and a handle 109 . The elongated housing 110 of the handle member 109 is pivotally connected to one end of the side slide rail 104a. The handle 109 is located on the opposite side of the hard disk 102 with the electrical connector 102e, so that the user can apply force to disassemble the hard disk 102 . The handle member 109 is capable of swinging in a direction 140 relative to the side rail 104a. The strip housing 110 of the handle 109 has an operation window 110c for the user's finger to pass through to insert into the hole 112b of the lock 112, so as to control whether the buckle 112c of the lock 112 protrudes from one end of the strip housing 110 .

The two side slide rails ( 104 a ; 104 b ) are used to fix on two opposite sides of a hard disk 102 , and are locked on the hard disk 102 with screws 106 passing through the locking holes 105 . Each side rail (104a; 104b) has a plurality of arches (107a; 107b). Each arch (107a; 107b) protrudes slightly from the surface of the side slide rail. When stressed, the elastic recovery force of the arch will be applied to the inner wall of the hard disk slot (refer to the hard disk slot 113 in FIG. 2 ), This enables the hard disk 102 to be more firmly positioned in the hard disk slot. In addition, the elasticity of the arch (107a; 107b) also has the effect of absorbing the vibration of the hard disk during operation.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which shows a schematic view of pulling out a handle vertically from a hard disk array cabinet according to an embodiment of the present invention. The hard disk array cabinet 116 has a plurality of vertical hard disk slots 113 for hot swapping of the hard disk modules 100 (Hot Swap). The hard disk array cabinet 116 is provided with a plurality of fans 116a, so as to provide airflow in the direction of the arrow in the figure, passing through the gap between adjacent hard disk modules 100, and taking away the heat generated by the hard disk during operation. Therefore, the part of the handle 109 of the hard disk carrier does not need to install fans, heat sinks or other active or passive heat dissipation structures, so the longitudinal length of the hard disk module 100 can be reduced, and the thickness of the hard disk array cabinet 116 can be relatively reduced. .

Please refer to FIGS. 1 , 2 , and 3 at the same time, wherein FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the hard disk module shown in FIG. 1 . When the hard disk module 100 is to be pulled out vertically from the hard disk array cabinet 116, first use the finger to pass through the operation window 110c to insert into the hole 112b of the lock 112, so as to control the fastener 112c of the lock 112 to disengage from the buckle groove 113b (refer to FIG. 1 ), then turn the handle 109 so that the pivot groove 110b at the pivot end engages the pivot rod 113a on one side of the hard disk slot 113, and use it as a fulcrum to rotate the handle 109 (along direction 140) to make the hard disk 102 The electrical connector 102e is separated from the corresponding connection port (not shown in the figure) in the hard disk slot 113 . Then, the user can directly grab the handle 109 and vertically pull the hard disk module 100 out of the hard disk slot 113 along the direction 115 .

Please refer to FIG. 3 , two side slide rails ( 104 a ; 104 b ) are fixed on two opposite sides ( 102 a ; 102 b ) of the hard disk 102 . The side of the hard disk 102 has a plurality of screw holes 103 for screws passing through the holes of the side slide rails (104a; 104b) to be locked therein. When each side slide rail (104a; 104b) is locked to the side of the hard disk 102, an elastic piece 114 can be added between the side slide rail and the side of the hard disk 102 to have a buffering function. The side rails (104a; 104b) may be integrally formed plastic parts.

The handle part 109 is composed of a strip housing 110 and a lock part 112 . The elongated housing 110 can be pivotally connected to one of the two side slide rails. In this embodiment, the long housing 110 is pivotally connected to one end of the side sliding rail 104a through the shaft 108 passing through the shaft hole 105a of the side sliding rail 104a and the shaft hole 110a of the long housing 110 . The pivoting end of the elongated housing 110 and the side slide rail 104a has a pivoting groove 110b for connecting to the pivoting rod 113a next to the opening of the hard disk slot 113 (refer to FIG. 2 ). The elongated housing 110 may be an integrally formed plastic part.

The lock 112 is a strip body with a cutout hole 110c for the user to move the lock with fingers through the operation window 110c of the strip housing 110 . One end of the lock 112 is a buckle 112c, which is used to protrude from one end of the elongated housing 110 (through the opening 110d of the elongated housing 110 ) and insert into a corresponding buckle slot 113b of a hard disk slot 113 . The other opposite end of the locking part 112 is an elastic part 112 a, so as to provide the elastic force required for the buckle 112 c to be inserted into the corresponding buckle slot 113 b of the hard disk slot 113 . In this embodiment, the elastic member 112a is a V-shaped member, but it is not limited to this shape, and other elastic member structures such as U-shaped or S-shaped are also applicable. The elongated body, the buckle and the elastic part constituting the locking part 112 can be integrally formed plastic parts.

The design of the locking part 112 slidingly connected in the elongated housing 110 can effectively reduce the thickness of the handle part 109 , thereby reducing the longitudinal length of the entire hard disk module 100 .

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a cross-sectional view of the shaft shown in FIG. 3 . In this embodiment, the shaft 108 may be a shaft with a C-shaped cross section. When the user applies force to the shaft 108 to make the notch 108a shrink in the direction of the arrow in the figure, the diameter of the shaft 108 can be reduced, so that the shaft 108 can easily pass through the shaft hole 105a and the strip of the side slide rail 104a. The shaft hole 110 a of the housing 110 . When the user no longer exerts force on the shaft 108 , the elastic recovery force of the shaft 108 can apply force to the inner wall of the shaft hole 105 a and the shaft hole 110 a, so that the shaft 108 is positioned in the shaft hole. However, the structure of the shaft is not limited to the above structure, and other designs for fixing the shaft in the shaft hole are also applicable to this case.

From the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention, it can be seen that the design of the hard disk carrier of the present invention uses the design that the lock is slidably connected to the elongated housing, so that the thickness of the handle can be effectively reduced, and the longitudinal length of the hard disk module can be reduced. , thereby reducing the thickness of the disk array cabinet. In addition, the design of the handle can also facilitate the user to pull out the hard disk module from the hard disk slot.

Although the present utility model has been disclosed as above in terms of implementation, it is not intended to limit the present utility model. Any person skilled in the art may make various modifications and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present utility model. , so the scope of protection of the present utility model should be as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (11)

1. a hard disk carrier is characterized in that, comprises:

Two wood side-guides are in order to be fixed in two opposite sides of a hard disk; And

Leader's part comprises:

One rectangular housing, be articulated in these two wood side-guides one of them, and have an operation window; And

One latch fitting is slidingly connected in this rectangular housing, and this latch fitting comprises:

One elongate body has one and scratches the hole, passes this operation window for the user and moves this latch fitting to point;

One fastener is positioned at an end of this elongate body, inserts the corresponding catching groove of a hdd slot in order to an end that protrudes from this rectangular housing; And

One elastic component is positioned at another opposite end of this elongate body, so as to the required elastic force of corresponding catching groove that provides fastener to insert this hdd slot.

2. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the working of plastics that this elongate body, this fastener and this elastic component are formed in one.

3. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, one of them pivot end of this rectangular housing and this two wood side-guides has one and articulates groove, so as to the other pivoted pole of opening that is connected to this hdd slot.

4. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this elastic component is a V-arrangement spare.

5. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, each this wood side-guide has a plurality of lockholes, is attached to the lockhole of this hard disk correspondence so as to passing for screw.

6. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, each this wood side-guide has a plurality of arched members, so as to being positioned the madial wall of this hdd slot.

7. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the working of plastics that each this wood side-guide is formed in one.

8. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, the working of plastics that this rectangular housing is formed in one.

9. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this rectangular housing be with an axostylus axostyle be pivoted to these two wood side-guides one of them.

10. hard disk carrier according to claim 9 is characterized in that, this axostylus axostyle has a C tee section.

11. hard disk carrier according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this handle member is to be positioned at the opposite side that this hard disk has electric connector.

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