Compal Electronics, Inc.

Chung-Kao Lai

Po-An Lin

Ying-Hu Chen

A locking device is adapted for locking a disk drive module inside a computer housing. The computer housing confines an open-ended receiving space that receives slidably and removably the disk drive module therein. The computer housing has a bottom wall and an upright side wall that extends upwardly from the bottom wall and that borders the receiving space. The side wall is formed with a latch hole for access to the receiving space. The disk drive module has a casing that is formed a latch groove. The locking device includes a latch member, a resilient metal wire strip and a positioning unit. The latch member has a locking end portion and a connecting end portion, is adapted to be disposed on top of the bottom wall, and is movable between a locking position, where the locking end portion is adapted to extend through the latch hole and into the latch groove, and a releasing position, where the locking end portion is extracted from the latch groove. The wire strip has opposite arm portions and an intermediate portion connected to the connecting end portion of the latch member. The positioning unit is adapted to be provided on the bottom wall of the computer housing and abuts against the arm portions of the wire strip so as to enable the wire strip to bias the latch member to the locking position.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Kao Lai