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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma-shi, Osaka, JP;
Akira Iwamoto, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Nakatani, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Mori, Osaka, JP;
Shun Shimazaki, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Tabata, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Mounted between bottom and top surfaces of a case are: second buffer materials and first buffer materials brought in surface contact with a bottom surface of a hard disk drive (HDD) via an insulating member, and upper buffer materials brought in surface contact with the opposite side of the HDD via the insulating member. When impact Fis applied to the HDD, the second buffer materials contract from a thickness of Tto T, and the first buffer materials buckle. Buckling parts of the first buffer materials buckle when the second buffer materials contract to thickness T, and can achieve impact-lessening independently from the second buffer materials. The second buffer materials contract singly from Tto equal Tto or more than T, whereas the first buffer materials and second buffer materials both act at thickness Tor beyond. Therefore, impact-lessening can be achieved in a broad range.