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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2011
Applicant:
Michael Easton, Waterlooville, GB;
Inventor:
Michael Easton, Waterlooville, GB;
Assignee:
Xyratex Technology Limited, Havant, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed herein a clamp assembly and a method for clamping a disk drive to a substrate. The disk drive has a disk drive connector. The clamp assembly includes a resilient biasing element mounted to the substrate. The clamp assembly also has a substrate connector. When a disk drive connector is connected to the substrate connector, the resilient biasing element biases the disk drive and the substrate connector together.