Patent ID: 9395767
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B,H05K

Claim Text:
1. An enclosure for a rack mount storage unit, comprising: a bottom plate defining a first horizontal plane; a pair of side plates having a first side plate and a second side plate, the side plates are parallel and define a vertical plane; a pair of end plates having a first end plate and a second end plate, the bottom plate, the pair of side plates and the pair of end plates being integrally connected; a first row, extending perpendicularly between the pair of end plates, having one or more stacks of hard disk drives connected to a first circuit board extending perpendicularly upward from the bottom plate and parallel to the first side plate, each of the one or more stacks of hard drives has an upper surface and an opposing lower surface, and each stack having the lower surfaces of two or more hard disk drives stacked vertically and where each hard disk drive of the two or more hard disk drives in the one or more stacks of hard disk drives in the first row co-planar with the bottom plate defining the first horizontal plane; and a second row, extending between the pair of end plates, having one or more stacks of hard disk drives connected to a second circuit board extending perpendicularly upward from the bottom plate and parallel to the first side plate, each of the one or more stacks of hard drives has an upper surface and an opposing lower surface, and each stack having two or more hard disk drives stacked vertically and where each hard disk drive of the two or more hard disk drives in the one or more stacks of hard disk drives in the second row co-planar with the bottom plate defining the first horizontal plane; wherein the first and second circuit boards extend perpendicularly upward from the bottom plate.