Claims
- 1. A small form factor disk drive for use in an appliance, which disk drive comprises:
a connector side, a removal side, and a lateral side; and a gripping mechanism affixed to a lateral side of the disk drive; wherein a portion of the gripping mechanism extends beyond the removal side.
- 2. The small form factor disk drive of claim 1 wherein the gripping mechanism is affixed to cover substantially all of the lateral side.
- 3. The small form factor disk drive of claim 1 wherein the portion is a pull tab that is strong enough so that it may be gripped to extract the small form factor disk drive from the appliance.
- 4. The small form factor disk drive of claim 3 wherein the pull tab is thin enough not to interfere with normal operation of the appliance.
- 5. The small form factor disk drive of claim 4 wherein the pull tab is flexible enough to be folded by a door of the appliance when it is inserted therein.
- 6. The small form factor disk drive of claim 5 wherein the pull tab is resilient that it resumes it shape after is the door is opened.
- 7. The small form factor disk drive of claim 1 wherein the gripping mechanism is affixed with an adhesive.
- 8. The small form factor disk drive of claim 1 wherein the gripping mechanism is about 0.025 mm thick.
- 9. The small form factor disk drive of claim 3 wherein the pull tab includes protuberances.
- 10. The small form factor disk drive of claim 3 wherein a surface of the pull tab has high friction.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/420,634, filed on Oct. 22, 2002, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60420634 |
Oct 2002 |
US |