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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1998
David F. Bolognia, Kingwood, TX (US);
Ghassan R. Gebara, Spring, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A hot-pluggable disk drive is supported on a carrier structure which is slidably and removably insertable rearwardly into a sheet metal cage portion of a computer system in a manner releasably coupling an SCA connector on a rear end of the drive to a corresponding electrical connector on a backplane structure within a rear interior portion of the cage. Heat generated by the operation of the disk drive is removed by forced convection via a flow of air forced through the cage by a suitable cooling fan. This convective cooling is conductively augmented by a pair of finned metal heat sink portions of the carrier which are movably carried by a base wall portion thereof, clamped against opposite sides of the supported disk drive, and positioned in the cooling air flow through the cage. Resilient thermal interface pad members are compressed between the finned heat sinks to improve the efficiency of heat conduction from the disk drive sides to the heat sinks.