Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Disk Dynamix

Thomas F Meehan

John Lynn Harting

Herman Chong-Han Yang

Patrick Weiher

Timothy George Harrington, Ii

Gregory Crosby

William Michael Williams

Raymond A Bahar

Dilbag Singh Pannu

Rajendra Bhadra

A removable storage cartridge system may include a linear push-push mechanism comprising a carriage having a lock bar and a lock bar spring, and an enclosure having a mounting bracket having a lock guide. The lock guide is configured to interact with the lock bar and spring such that, in response to a first pushing force, reception of the carriage into the mounting bracket positions the carriage into a locked position within the enclosure and, in response to a second pushing force, the carriage is released from the locked position and ejected from the system.

Linear push-push mechanism for removable storage cartridge system

A storage cartridge dock system and method are provided. The storage cartridge dock system in one example includes a case including a front panel, an upper cartridge slot formed in the front panel of the case and configured to receive an upper storage cartridge, with the upper cartridge slot including an upper interface connector, at least a lower cartridge slot formed in the front panel and configured to receive a lower storage cartridge, with the at least lower cartridge slot including a lower interface connector, and a first external connector and a second external connector coupled to the upper interface connector of the upper cartridge slot and coupled to the lower interface connector of the at least lower cartridge slot.

Storage cartridge dock system

A removable storage cartridge system includes a rack and pinion gear reduction mechanism that assists in extending an eject spring and may assist in engaging a pair of data interface connectors as a cartridge is inserted into the system, and that may further function as a gear multiplication mechanism that assists in disengaging the pair of data interface connectors as the cartridge is ejected from the system.

Insertion/ejection assist mechanism for removable storage cartridge system

A method and apparatus for mechanically mounting and electrically connecting a plurality of small form factor (SFF) storage devices such as 2.5&#x2033; hard disk drives in place of a larger SFF hard disk drive such as a single SFF 3.5&#x2033; hard disk drive. This provides increased disk drive capacity and/or higher performance. The storage devices may be connected in a redundant array of independent disk (RAID) architecture for implementation as a RAID stripe, mirror, or other RAID configuration.

Mounting apparatus for storage devices

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Thomas F Meehan