Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible-mount electrical connection
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Application No.: US15627632Application Date: 2017-06-20
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Publication No.: US10431261B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Darya Amin-Shahidi , Toshiki Hirano , Lidu Huang , Todd McNally , Jeff Wilke
- Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc
- Current Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; H05K5/00 ; H05K7/00 ; G11B33/12 ; G11B33/08 ; H01R25/16 ; H01R33/88 ; H01R12/70 ; H01R12/77 ; H01R12/61 ; G06F1/18 ; H01R12/91 ; H01R13/24

Abstract:
Provided herein are systems and apparatus for reducing vibration interaction between hard drives. In one implementation, a flexible mount electrical connection comprises a mating connector configured to physically couple with a hard drive connector and a plurality of electrical pins having a connector portion positioned within the mating connector configured to electrically couple with hard drive connector pins positioned within the hard drive connector. Each electrical pin has an extended portion extending away from the mating connector. The extended portion has an attachment portion configured to electrically couple the respective electrical pin to a printed circuit board, and the extended portion has a shape formed therein configured to reduce transmission of vibrations in the connector portion along each axis of a three-dimensional space to the attachment portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180366163A1 FLEXIBLE-MOUNT ELECTRICAL CONNECTION Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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