Zhongshan Innocloud Assigned Two Patents

HDD enclosure
Zhongshan Innocloud Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd., Zhongshan, China, has been assigned a patent (8,988,821) developed by Li, Zhan-Yang, Shenzhen, China, for appliquant Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry ShenZhen Co., Ltd, ShenZhen, China and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd, New Tapei, Taiwan, for a “hard disk drive enclosure.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A hard disk drive enclosure includes a housing and an operation module attached to the housing. The operation module includes a mounting block attached to the housing, a handle pivotably attached to the mounting block, and a sliding member slidably attached to the handle. When the handle is rotated to a closed position, the handle abuts against the mounting block, and the sliding member is slidable between a first position, in which the sliding member is latched to the mounting block for locking the handle at the closed position, and a second position, in which the sliding member is unlatched from the mounting block and the handle is rotatable away from the closed position to an open position. When the handle is rotated to the open position, a free end of the handle is spaced away from the mounting block.“

The patent application was filed on April 18, 2014 (14/256,433).

HDD module having temperature detecting function
Zhongshan Innocloud Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd., Zhongshan, China, has been assigned a patent (8,988,819) developed by Wu, Kang, and Tian, Bo, Shenzhen, China, or appliquant Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry ShenZhen Co., Ltd, ShenZhen, China and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd, New Tapei, Taiwan, for a “hard disk drive module having temperature detecting function.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A hard disk drive module comprises a hard disk drive, a bracket, a hard disk drive backplane, and a temperature detecting circuit. The bracket supports the hard disk drive. The hard disk drive backplane is electrically connected to the hard disk drive. The temperature detecting circuit comprises a temperature detecting chip arranged on the bracket, and a cable connected between the temperature detecting chip and the hard disk drive backplane.“

The patent application was filed on December 5, 2013 (14/097,243).