Supermicro Assigned Patent

Super Micro Computer Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,871,805) developed by Shen, William, San Jose, CA, for a “hard disk drive tray.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A hard disk drive tray for accommodating a hard disk drive is provided. The hard disk drive tray has a front frame. An elastic cantilever plate is extended from each of two ends of the front frames. The couple of elastic cantilever plates are arranged parallel with each other for clamping the hard disk drive between the couple of elastic cantilever plates. A lateral surface of each elastic cantilever plate is covered by a side case and an expansion fastening bolt for fastening the hard disk drive is arranged protruding from the other lateral surface of each elastic cantilever plate. The hard disk drive is clamped by, the elastic cantilever plates, a simplified structure of the hard disk drive tray. The elastic cantilever plate is covered by the side case and thereby reinforced.”

The patent application was filed on February 28, 2019 (16/288,813).