Patent ID: 8081442

Claim:
A removable data-storage device comprising: a main data-storage unit; an exterior housing for containing the main data-storage unit; an elastic shock-reduction part between an inner wall of the exterior housing and the main data-storage unit for reducing a mechanical shock to the main data-storage unit by elasticity; and an external connector exposed from an opening of the exterior housing; wherein the main data-storage unit is placed at the rear of the external connector as viewed from the opening, the external connector is joined and secured to the main data-storage unit and the exterior housing, the elastic shock-reduction part is configured to deform with a movement of the main data-storage unit in the exterior housing produced by a mechanical shock and a movable range of the external connector is smaller than a movable range of the main data-storage unit; a shaft restricting a movement of the external connector, wherein the external connector is joined and secured to the exterior housing via the shaft, a resin bushing between an outer surface of the shaft and an inner surface of a hole of the external connector; wherein the external connector has a greater movable range in an insertion and extraction direction to an external device than the movable ranges in the other two directions vertical to the insertion and extraction direction, the external connector having a hole where the shaft penetrates and which is vertical to the insertion and extraction direction, a diameter of the hole in the insertion and extraction direction being larger than a diameter in a direction vertical to the insertion and extraction direction, and wherein the resin bushing comprises: a first flat-layer portion and a second layer portion in the direction of the larger diameter, the second layer portion having projections and depressions, and wherein the first flat-layer portion contacts the shaft and the inner surface of the hole in the direction of the smaller diameter.