Patent ID: 8024750

Claim:
A lift device installed inside a slot-in disk drive, the slot-in disk drive comprising a casing, a traverse pivoted to the casing, a sliding bolt protruding from a side of the traverse, a base installed inside the casing, and a sliding component installed beside the side of the traverse in a slidable manner, the lift device comprising: two straight slots being formed on a side of the sliding component separately and along a direction of thickness of the slot-in disk drive; two sliding pins separately protruding from a side of the base adjacent to the sliding component; and a cover covering with the sliding component, the cover comprising: two guiding pins protruding from an inner surface of the cover corresponding to the two straight slots for inserting into the two straight slots respectively; an one-humped traverse slot with two ends of different heights formed on a lateral side of the cover adjacent to the sliding bolt whereinto the sliding bolt inserts; and two lifting slots separately formed on the other lateral side of the cover whereinto the two sliding pins insert; wherein the two sliding pins are located at top ends of the two lifting slots and the sliding bolt is located at a bottom end of the traverse slot for descending the cover to a lowest height when the slot-in disk drive is standby.