Apparatus for reducing impacts on a hard disk assembly

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved apparatus for reducing shocks and impacts in a hard disk assembly.
It is another object to provide an apparatus for reducing: damage to a hard disk drive that results from external impacts.
It is still another object to provide an apparatus for ensuring that no direct impact be exerted upon the hard disk assembly.
It is yet another object to provide an apparatus for buffering impacts inflicted upon the hard disk assembly.
These and other objects may be achieved with an apparatus constructed according to the principles of the present invention with an upper frame, a lower frame, slots arcuately formed in each of the corners of the upper frame and the lower frame, and elastic elements for buffering the hard disk assembly against damage due to externally administered impacts.
Each one of the elastic elements has a hole formed at a center portion and is fired into the slots arcuately formed at each of the corners of the upper frame and the lower frame.
A contact surface is provided at upper and lower portions of each of the corners of the hard disk assembly to further accommodate installation of the elastic elements.
A fastener attaches the elastic elements, the hard disk assembly, the upper frame and the lower frame together in a unitary structure such that neither the upper frame nor the lower frame directly contacts the hard disk assembly.