IP Library Granted Patent US 9,668,324
Granted Patent B2
US 9,668,324 · App. 15/256,986 · Granted May 30, 2017

Solid-state drive

Inventor: Chi-Fen Kuo (Hsinchu County, TW)
Assignee: Alson Technology Limited
H05B37/0227F21V23/003F21V23/0442G02B6/006G02B6/0075G02B6/0083G02B6/0093G09F13/00
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Patent No.
US 9,668,324
App. No.
15/256,986
Granted
May 30, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A solid-state drive is provided, including: a substrate, a flash memory module, at least one light-emitting portion and at least one light-guiding portion. The substrate has a transmit port. The flash memory module is disposed on the substrate, and the flash memory module is electrically connected with the transmit port. The at least one light-emitting portion is disposed on the substrate, and the at least one light-emitting portion is electrically connected with the transmit port. The at least one light-guiding portion at least partially covers the at least one light-emitting portion.

Claims (13)

1. A solid-state drive, including:

a substrate, having a transmit port;

a flash memory module, disposed on the substrate and electrically connected with the transmit port;

at least one light-emitting portion, disposed on the substrate and electrically connected with the transmit port;

at least one light-guiding portion, at least partially covering the light-emitting portion;

a shell portion, the shell portion covering two side faces of the substrate, the shell portion formed with a light-transmittable portion, the light-transmittable portion corresponding to the light-guiding portion.

2. The solid-state drive of claim 1 , wherein one said light-emitting portion is disposed on a circumferential side of the substrate, and one said light-guiding portion covers the light-emitting portion.

3. The solid-state drive of claim 2 , further having a shell portion, the shell portion including two shell members, the two shell members covering two side faces of the substrate substantially perpendicular to a thickness direction thereof respectively, a circumferential side of the shell portion being formed with a light-transmittable portion, the light-guiding portion being disposed between the two shell members and corresponding to the light-transmittable portion.

4. The solid-state drive of claim 1 , wherein the substrate further includes a processing unit, and the processing unit is electrically connected with the light-emitting portion and able to control the light-emitting portion.

5. The solid-state drive of claim 4 , wherein the processing unit is electrically connected with a temperature sensing unit, the temperature sensing unit senses a temperature of at least one of the substrate, the flash memory module and the light-emitting portion to produce a sensing signal, and the processing unit controls the light-emitting portion according to the sensing signal.

6. The solid-state drive of claim 5 , wherein the light-emitting portion includes a first light-emitting module capable of emitting a first color and a second light-emitting module capable of emitting a second color, the first and second colors are different, the processing unit is able to control at least one of the first and second light-emitting modules to be electrically communicable or incommunicable with the transmit port.

7. The solid-state drive of claim 4 , further including a transmission speed detecting unit, the transmission speed detecting unit being electrically connected with the processing unit and the transmit port, the transmission speed detecting unit being able to detect a transmission speed of the transmit port to produce a detecting signal, the processing unit being able to control a light-emitting mode of the light-emitting portion according to the detecting signal.

8. The solid-state drive of claim 1 , wherein the transmit port is a port for USB (universal serial bus), SATA (serial advanced technology attachment) or IDE (integrated development environment).

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2017
From: AVEXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: ALSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 042041/0849 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 13, 2016
From: KUO, CHI-FEN
To: AVEXIR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039718/0236 →
Continuity (2)
Division 14725569 · May 29, 2015
Related Publication 20160374181A1 · Dec 22, 2016