Patent ID: 6501644
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
A shock mounted disk drive assembly comprising:a disk drive; a housing for the disk drive, the housing being for mounting in a portable computer; a plurality of shock pads suspending the disk drive in the housing, each shock pad being of a shock absorbing material and wherein the disk drive has rectangular top and bottom surfaces, and there is at least one shock pad in contact with the top surface of the disk drive and an inner surface of the housing near each corner of the top surface, and there is at least one shock pad in contact with the bottom surface of the disk drive and an inner surface of the housing near each corner of the bottom surface; the shock pads near each corner of the top surface being spaced apart from the shock pads at the other corners of the top surface, the shock pads near each corner of the bottom surface being spaced apart from the shock pads at the other corners of the bottom surface; and at least one thermally conductive pad disposed between a surface of the disk drive and the inner surface of the housing, the housing being for mounting in a portable computer, the housing comprising a tray mounted on the portable computer and an associated cover, the associated cover being a portion of an outer surface of the computer, and the tray being adapted to slide onto the mounting rails in the computer.