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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1995
Paul T Tirrell, Uxbridge, MA (US);
William R Tuccio, Sutton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A customer removable storage system peripheral device cover is formed from two symmetrical right and left covers, each having a number of air channel openings spaced to meet finger insertion safety requirements. The covers are fastened together around grooved symmetrical guides hot staked on either side of a drive carrier. Inside the covers, a floating disk adaptor board is included at the rear to electrically connect the drive to the storage system. A ribbon wire cable is placed along the bottom of the interior of the device cover, to connect to an LED panel on the front of the device cover. An ejector pivotally attached to the device cover has locking tabs that grip a shelf of the chassis at the position where the drive is to be inserted, and propel the covered drive inward along rails in the chassis that fit into grooved symmetrical guides to snap the covered drive into its position and connect it to a backplane. Guide pins in the backplane match openings in the floating board disk adaptor's gang connector at the rear of the device cover to insure proper insertion. When a latch in the ejector is released, the front planar surface moves down to engage with a shelf of the chassis within which the covered drive is mounted. A downward pivot of the ejector propels the covered drive out of its position for removal. A simple manufacturing process is used to assemble a drive within the covers of the invention.