Electronics industry and its associated industries have known a rapid, spectacular development as time evolves. Further, all kinds of high-technology products and communication products related to computer technology are commercially available. The fast development of the new products not only advantageously influences our daily life and work, but also brings a great convenience to people. In response to all kinds of new information products being developed, especially notebook computers, most users become more critical with respect to the convenience in using them. Thus, whether electronic products manufactured in the future can provide a more convenient and effective service to customers will be an indicator to decide whether sale revenue and manufacturing technology of one large electronic company are higher and more advanced than other competitive ones respectively.
For meeting the increasing consumer demand about computers, a high-technology company has to not only maintain good quality of its products, but also increase the manufacturing speed. In brief, each portion of an assembly line, whether important or not, will affect the manufacturing speed. For example, the speed of installing a CD-ROM drive in a computer is one of important factors that affect the increase of the computer assembly speed. It is understood that competition among computer manufacturing companies is very fierce. Thus, one computer manufacturing company cannot have a large share of the computer market if both the computer assembly speed of the company is low and quality of computers produced by the company is poor. To the worse, the company may be eliminated from the competitive computer market.
However, typically, a plurality of screws are employed to fasten a CD-ROM drive in the computer in the installation process. This has a drawback of low in assembly speed. Similarly, in a case of removing a malfunctioned CD-ROM drive for maintenance or replacement, a user has to sequentially detach the computer case, unfasten the screws by means of a screw driver, disconnect all power and data cables from the CD-ROM drive, and finally detach the CD-ROM drive from the computer case. As such, it is a tedious, time consuming, and labor intensive process during computer assembly. Similar drawbacks are also found in maintenance. This is an undesirable design. Further, it contradicts the trend of low cost, high efficiency, and mass production as pursued by modern industries.
Thus, it is desirable among vast consumers and computer manufacturers to provide a novel fastening mechanism capable of rapidly detaching a CD-ROM drive from a computer and installing the same in the computer in order to overcome the above drawbacks of the prior art.