238results about "EMI or RFI carrier shielding" patented technology

A novel information storage device is disclosed and claimed. The information storage device includes a disk drive having a disk drive top surface, a disk drive bottom surface, a disk drive periphery, and a disk drive printed circuit board. The disk drive defines a Z direction that is normal to the disk drive top surface. The disk drive defines a disk drive height measured in the Z direction from the disk drive bottom surface to the disk drive top surface. The information storage device includes a first conductive shield over the disk drive. The first conductive shield includes a peripheral capacitive flange that at least partially overlaps the disk drive periphery. The peripheral capacitive flange is separated from the disk drive periphery in a direction normal to the Z direction by a clearance. The overlap in the Z-direction is at least 5 times the clearance.

Techniques for preventing electrostatic discharge (ESD) and circuit noise are provided. More particularly, the present invention provides a method to prevent ESD damage during the assembly of computer disk commonly called a hard disk for memory applications. The coating mainly involves a ion-deposition process. Merely by way of example, the present invention is implemented by using filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) with a dissipative crystalline and / or amorphous carbon base thin film coating on a flexible circuit to drain the potential electrostatic charges during circuit assembly and interconnect processes, yet it would be recognized that the invention has a much broader range of applicability on any electronic apparatus that is susceptible to electrostatic damage and static noise.

A novel information storage device is disclosed and claimed. The information storage device includes a disk drive, a disk drive printed circuit board, and a first conductive shield over the disk drive printed circuit board and electrically coupled to the disk drive. The information storage device also includes a bridge controller printed circuit board and a second conductive shield over and electrically coupled to the bridge controller printed circuit board. The first and second conductive shields are in direct contact with each other. A disk drive interface connector electrically couples the bridge controller printed circuit board with the disk drive printed circuit board. A third conductive shield is attached to the disk drive interface connector and is in direct contact with both the first and second conductive shields.

There is provided a disk drive cover. The disk drive cover includes a bottom layer including a metallic bottom layer body and a first flap formed in the bottom layer body. The first flap defines an exposed inner body edge of the bottom layer body. The disk drive cover further includes a damping layer. The disk drive cover further includes a top layer including a metallic top layer body and a second flap. The second flap is formed in the top layer body with the second flap extending into the bottom layer adjacent the first flap. The second flap defines an exposed second flap edge. The second flap edge is disposed in mechanical communication with the exposed inner body edge for electrically grounding the top and bottom layers.

A disk drive housing member for a disk drive. The disk drive housing member includes a housing body formed of a metallic material. The housing body includes a body surface having a coated portion and plated portions disposed throughout the coated portion. The disk drive housing member further includes an electrically insulative coating disposed upon the coated portion. The disk drive housing member further includes a metallic plating disposed upon the each respective plated portion.

A disk drive includes an opaque cover secured to a base, where the opaque cover has an opening. A see-through insert, which includes an electrically conductive material, is affixed to the opaque cover over the opening. The electrically conductive material may be a coating applied to the see-through insert which, in one embodiment is a polymer coating having a certain surface resistivity. Alternatively, the coating's ESD-dissipative properties may be due to the presence of sputtered gold, sputtered indium tin oxide or a metal film. The electrically conductive material may alternatively be embedded in the see-through insert.

The present invention is to provide a grounding part of hard disk (HDD) against EMI and shock, which includes a HDD body and two conducting frames, wherein the two conducting frames are composed of a narrow vertical plane and two parallel planes extending along two corresponding sides of the vertical planes to form a U-type conducting frame with an opening, a plurality of elastic projections are disposed on the two parallel planes of the two conducting frames, and the openings of the two frames just accommodate the two corresponding sides of the HDD body. When the HDD body and the two conducting frames is installed in a containing room of an electronic device (e.g. notebook computer), the requirements of shock protection, EMI protection and grounding for the HDD body is achieved by virtue of the compression of those elastic projections.

A player for a media unit. The player includes a front plate formed of metal and having an opening configured to receive a media unit. The player also includes a cover mounted over the opening and having a slit. The slit is aligned with the opening and configured to allow the media unit to pass through the cover and enter the opening. The cover includes an electrical conductor that contacts the front plate and is in electrostatic communication with the slit. The conductor conducts electrostatic charge from the media unit to the front plate as the media unit passes through the slit. The media unit may be a CD, DVD, memory stick, minidisc or the like.

A fastener buckles a hard disk driver (HDD) in a first fasten portion of a case. The fastener comprises a second fasten portion and a third fasten portion. The second fasten portion buckles a first hole on the HDD. A first side of the third fasten portion connects with the second fasten portion. At least one part of the third fasten portion buckles the first fasten portion so that the HDD is fastened to the case.

A pixel circuit of a light-emitting display that reduces the influence of kickback generated by parasitic capacitance. The pixel circuit includes first to fourth transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting element. The first and second transistors are serially coupled to each other and turned on in response to a first control signal. The capacitor is coupled in parallel with the first and second transistors. The third transistor supplies a data voltage to a first electrode of the capacitor in response to a select signal. The fourth transistor outputs a current corresponding to its gate-source voltage, which is based on the voltage of the capacitor. The light-emitting element emits light corresponding to the current from the fourth transistor.

Provided is a buffer member helping to achieve stable electrical connection between a casing of an external storage device and an accommodating portion thereof without involving an increase in the number of components. A buffer member has a conductive connection layer held in contact with a hard disk drive and with an accommodating portion, so it is possible to dissipate static electricity with which the hard disk drive is charged and electromagnetic wave noise through the conductive connection layer to the accommodating portion or a casing of a notebook PC electrically continuous with the accommodating portion. Thus, it is possible to prevent malfunction of the hard disk drive and to correctly operate the notebook PC. Further, there is no need to separately provide a conductive member for conductive connection between the hard disk drive and the accommodating portion, thereby making it possible to avoid an increase in the number of components. Thus, the hard disk drive can be easily incorporated into the accommodating portion.

A hard disk drive has an enclosure with disk construction members and is characterized by covering the enclosure with an electrically conductive sheet. The electrically conductive sheet protects the drive regardless of which direction an ESD charge is applied. The electrically conductive sheet does not permit ESD to pass through the disk construction members stored in the enclosure. Therefore, it is possible to form a structure in which a GMR head or the like in an enclosure is not damaged due to ESD even if the enclosure is handled by a general end user. Moreover, the present invention relates to an electrically conductive sheet for covering at least both principal planes of the enclosure of a hard disk drive constituted as described above. Other modes of the invention include at least both principal planes of an enclosure being covered by the electrically conductive sheet in such a way that both sheets on both principal planes are electrically connected. In addition, portions where the enclosure contacts the disk construction members on both principal planes may also be covered and electrically interconnected. Furthermore, the electrically conductive sheet may be bonded to the surface of the enclosure by an adhesive, or provided with an opening at a position corresponding to an enclosure portion that must be brought into contact with an external atmosphere.

A docking module for conventional small form factor disk drives provides, in one embodiment, space for two such disk drives embedded in tray loaders, within a standard 3.5 inches halve height floppy bay. The docking module provides hot swappable insertion and removal of tray loaders together with disk drives. The bay is provided within a housing member. A button attached to a lever mechanism disconnects the docking module connector from the tray loader connector and partially pull out the loader when the button is pushed; An EMI shield fixedly coupled to the tray loaders each provide a barrier to electromagnetic interference.

The disk carrier is used to house and secure a plurality of disks and comprises a disk cassette having an open top, an open bottom, and end wall ingresses; a top cover; and a bottom cover. The top cover has flaps to cover the end wall ingresses. To reduce particulation from opening and closing the disk carrier, one embodiment of the disk carrier implements an articulation in the flaps. Another embodiment implements a living hinge on the bottom cover. The disk carrier also has a path to ground for dissipating static and other electrical charge away from the disks.

An anti-vibration and anti-EMI frame includes an electrically conductive casing having a plurality of side panels, a front opening and a rear opening for receiving a hard disk drive therein before being fixed in an electronic device. The casing is integrally formed on the side panels with a plurality of outward protruded elastic members, and at the rear opening with a stop plate and two mounting plates. The stop plate prevents the hard disk drive from moving out of the casing via the rear opening thereof; the casing is fixed in the electronic device by threading screws through the mounting plates into the electronic device; and the elastic members on the casing are internally in contact with the electronic device. Therefore, the casing protects the hard disk drive against vibration and shields electromagnetic interference to and from the hard disk drive.

A hard disk drive of the invention comprises at least one metal coating formed over at least one exterior surface of a hard disk drive housing, wherein the hard disk drive is hermetically sealed. Methods for forming such hard disk drives are also disclosed.

The pressure-sensitive adhesive label for a hard disk drive is a pressure-sensitive adhesive label for adhering to a package outer surface of a hard disk drive, having a substrate, an information display portion forming face formed on one side of the substrate and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on other side of the substrate, and is characterized in that as the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the surface has a conductive pressure-sensitive adhesive layer utilized as a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface, a conductive layer is formed on the face at the substrate side in the conductive pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and an electric resistance value in a two-dimensional direction on the surface of the conductive pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 5 Ω or less.

An electronic device utilizing an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure. The electronic device comprises a housing and a printed circuit board (PCB) with an ESD protection structure disposed thereon. The PCB has at least one metal layer with a ground circuit and a functional circuit. The ground circuit includes at least one device-protecting area near the edge of the PCB and exposed on the surface thereof. The device-protecting area is covered by a thick conductive layer, and electric components are disposed nearby, such that static electricity can be transferred to ground through the ground circuit of the PCB to protect the electronic device from interferences and damages.

A protective device for protecting an electronic device, e.g., MR head, from ESD / EOS damage includes a cable having leads coupled to the electronic device and a first port providing access to the leads. A second port with one-to-one electrical connection to each lead in the cable provides a second electrical access to the all leads. A shorting device is coupled to one of the ports thereby creating a short between both the leads of the extension and the leads of the cable. The other port is available for coupling to an external device, e.g., tester or end device while the short provides ESD / EOS protection.

The present invention is to provide a grounding part of hard disk (HDD) against EMI and shock, which includes a HDD body and two conducting frames, wherein the two conducting frames are composed of a narrow vertical plane and two parallel planes extending along two corresponding sides of the vertical planes to form a U-type conducting frame with an opening, a plurality of elastic projections are disposed on the two parallel planes of the two conducting frames, and the openings of the two frames just accommodate the two corresponding sides of the HDD body. When the HDD body and the two conducting frames is installed in a containing room of an electronic device (e.g. notebook computer), the requirements of shock protection, EMI protection and grounding for the HDD body is achieved by virtue of the compression of those elastic projections.

A media cartridge for use with data storage libraries. The cartridge includes a housing having an opening through which a carrier tray can be loaded and extracted to reveal a media element. A number of baffles are included to limit exposure of the media elements to contamination.

The invention discloses a flash memory data management method and device and a computer readable storage medium, and relates to the technical field of data storage management. The flash memory data management method and device and the computer readable storage medium aims at solving the technical problem of an existing wireless communication device that the module stability and reliability are influenced since flash memory data is abnormal. The flash memory data management method comprises the following steps of setting a root file system of a wireless communication module as a read-only file system and mounting a laminated file system to a memory; setting the root file system as the laminated file system and mounting a configuration catalogue of the root file system into a readable and writable file system partition of a flash memory in the wireless communication module. According to the flash memory data management method and device and the computer readable storage medium, the laminated file system and a recovery mechanism of the file system are adopted to improve the stability and reliability of the wireless communication module, and after-sales maintenance work of a product of the type of the wireless communication module is also reduced.

A disk drive cage includes a bracket (20) and a shielding member (10). The bracket includes two parallel side plates (21, 22). A positioning flange (212) is bent from one of the side plates (21). The shielding member includes a front wall (13), a top wall (15), a bottom wall (16), a first side wall (12), and a second side wall (14). A resilient lip piece (141) is formed on the second side wall and having at least one locking tab (142) engaging with the positioning flange when the shielding member inserts into the bracket. The top wall and the bottom wall has arc-shaped edges (152, 162) to allow resilient deformation of the first side wall towards the arc-shaped edges by the other one of the side plates (22), and the shielding member rotating out from the bracket.

An anti-vibration and anti-EMI frame includes an electrically conductive casing having a plurality of side panels, a front opening and a rear opening for receiving a hard disk drive therein before being fixed in an electronic device. The casing is integrally formed on the side panels with a plurality of outward protruded elastic members, and at the rear opening with a stop plate and two mounting plates. The stop plate prevents the hard disk drive from moving out of the casing via the rear opening thereof; the casing is fixed in the electronic device by threading screws through the mounting plates into the electronic device; and the elastic members on the casing are internally in contact with the electronic device. Therefore, the casing protects the hard disk drive against vibration and shields electromagnetic interference to and from the hard disk drive.

According to one embodiment, a case of a disk device includes a plate-shaped base formed of a non-magnetic material and having an open upper surface, and a plate-shaped top cover formed of a non-magnetic material and attached to the base to cover the open upper surface of the base. An outer surface of the base is covered with a first plating layer formed of a magnetic material, and an outer surface of the top cover is covered with a second plating layer formed of a magnetic material. The first and second plating layers are conductively connected to each other. A disk-shaped recording medium and a mechanical unit are arranged in the case. The medium has a substrate, a soft magnetic backing layer formed on the substrate, and a magnetic recording layer formed so as to overlap the soft magnetic backing layer and having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.