Patent attributes
A locking handle and pawl assembly mounted on a removable memory cartridge or RMC and adapted for releasable attachment to a removable memory cartridge bay or RMC bay. The assembly includes a handle with handle base and handle arm extending outwardly therefrom. The handle base includes pin holes and a handle dwell slot. The handle base is pinned to one or two locking members called pawls and pinned between a pair of outwardly extending RMC enclosure brackets on an RMC enclosure or housing. When the handle arm is rotated upwardly, an RMC Bay catch on a cam surface of the pawl(s) is released from a side of a catch opening in the top of the RMC Bay. The upwardly rotation of the handle leverages another feature of the handle called the handle nose against another side of the RMC Bay causing linear movement of the RMC relative to the RMC Bay which disengages the male connector on the RMC's hard disk drive from the female connector on the RMC Bay's printed circuit board allowing for easier removal of the RMC from the RMC Bay while only holding the handle arm with one hand.