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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1993
Alfred E DeLuca, Harvard, MA (US);
Stanley W Stefanick, Uxbridge, MA (US);
Cosmo L Leo, Watertown, MA (US);
Thomas J Orr, Sudbury, MA (US);
David T Symmes, Danvers, MA (US);
Henry Wright, Ipswich, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A storage assembly for mounting '0' to 'N' storage devices to a computer or electronic system. The storage assembly has an assembly base that connects to the housing of the system, '1' to 'M' tray members that support '0' to 'N' storage devices with the '1' to 'M' tray members being connected such that they form a stack of tray members and each tray member has a least one storage device attached to it, shock mount assemblies for movably attaching the stack of tray members with the storage devices attached thereto to the base and for protecting the tray members of storage devices from normal shocks and vibrations, and severe shocks in the horizontal, vertical, and angular directions, 97 LDC board that provides regulated power to the storage devices, an interface board for transferring data to, and receiving data from, the storage devices via a cable assembly that connects to the storage devices in a daisy chain fashion, and 9 connector that connects to the interface board and the storage devices that permits connection of the storage devices and interface board to external devices.