Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090046424 | Fan adapter - This invention provides a fan adapter for electrically connecting a circuit board and a fan connection port. The circuit board has at least a fan pulse width modulation signal node, a first fan waveform feedback signal node, a fan power input signal node, a fan power output signal node, and a second fan waveform feedback signal node. The fan adapter includes a base and first to fifth electrical pins disposed on the base and equidistantly spaced apart in sequence, wherein the first to fifth electrical pins respectively have one end electrically connected to the fan pulse width modulation signal node, the first fan waveform feedback signal node, the fan power input signal node, the fan power output signal node, and the second fan waveform feedback signal node of the circuit board respectively, and respectively have the other end electrically connected to the fan connection port, thereby allowing a single fan adapter to be fit for use with various types of fan connection ports and to control conjoined fans or two fans. | 02-19-2009 |
20090073651 | Fastening mechanism - A fastening mechanism for fastening a module and a second module in the housing of an electronic device is disclosed. The fastening mechanism includes a lid body and a positioning member disposed in the housing. The first module is fixed in the housing by the lid body and the lid body is fastened by the positioning member, which is coupled to and overlaps the second module on the lid body, thereby using a shared common space for concurrently holding the lid body, the first module and the second module in place to save the layout space of the electronic device. | 03-19-2009 |
20090201641 | Airflow conducting structure - The present invention provides an airflow conducting structure for an electronic device having a base and a control box. The control box is inserted in and mounted on the base, and a first connection section is disposed in a grooved top of the base. The control box has a box body, a heat generating source disposed in the box body, and a second connection section disposed on the bottom of the box body for being connected to the first connection section. The airflow conducting structure includes airflow inlets and airflow outlets that are respectively disposed on the base and the control box, so as to form a chimney-like airway. Therefore, a better heat dissipating efficiency is achieved without increasing the volume of the electronic device. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201653 | Fixing device - A fixing device is provided for disposing an interface card in a casing of an electronic device, wherein the casing of electronic device includes lateral walls, a peripheral component bracket fixed to the casing. The fixing device includes a rotating bracket and an interface bracket, wherein the rotating bracket is fixed to the lateral wall, and connecting portions, and a first limiting portion. The interface bracket includes rotating portions pivotally connected to the connecting portions, a second limiting portion corresponding to the first limiting portion, and a coupling portion coupled to the peripheral component bracket. The interface bracket is rotated relatively to the casing of the electronic device, and the movement of the interface bracket is limited to the vertical movement by the rotating bracket. | 08-13-2009 |
20100089853 | SLIDE RAIL STRUCTURE - A slide rail structure disposed between a chassis and a rack is provided. The slide rail structure includes a first slide rail, a slider, a first connecting part and a second connecting part. The first slide rail is fixed on the rack. The slider is slidably connected to the first slide rail. The first connecting part is suitable for fixing on the chassis. The second connecting part is disposed on the slider and slidably connected to the first connecting part. The chassis slides on the first slide rail through the slider, the first connecting part and the second connecting part. | 04-15-2010 |
20100118440 | CAGE - A cage adapted to carry a plurality of disc drives and fix the disc drives within a case of a computer host is provided. The computer host has a mother board. The disc drives are spread horizontally within the cage, so that the disc drives are hung above the mother board. | 05-13-2010 |
20100124016 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device including a base and a pluggable unit is provided. The base includes a first heat sink having a first heat-transfer contacting surface. The pluggable unit includes a second heat sink and a heat source. The second heat sink has a second heat-transfer contacting surface. When the pluggable unit is plugged in the base, the first heat-transfer contacting surface gets in contact with the second heat-transfer contacting surface. | 05-20-2010 |
20100257715 | HANDLE STRUCTURE - A handle structure suitable for disposing on a surface of a carrier is provided. The carrier has a locating part is assemble to a case. The handle structure includes a holder, an elastic element and a fastening element. The holder has a rotating axis and a locating element, and has a first end and a second end opposite thereto. The rotating axis connecting to the carrier is disposed on the first end, and the holder is pivoted on the surface. The locating element disposed on the first end interferes with the locating part. The elastic element has a first fixing part fixed to the carrier and a pushing part connected to the first fixing part and pushing against the holder. The fastening element has a second fixing part fixed to the carrier and a fastening part connected to the second fixing part and fastened to the second end. | 10-14-2010 |
20100259884 | MOTHERBOARD MODULE - A motherboard module adapted for connecting pluggably to a case includes a tray, a motherboard, a hard disk cage, and at least one hard disk drive. The tray has a bottom board, a plurality of fixing portions, and a front board. The front board is disposed at a side of the bottom board. The motherboard is disposed on the bottom board. The hard disk cage is fixedly connected to the fixing portions and above the tray, and has a hole corresponding to a hole of the front board. The hard disk drive may be disposed pluggably in the cage. | 10-14-2010 |
20100265645 | CASE OF SERVER - A case of server includes a chassis, a first top cover, a second top cover, at least a first tray, at least a second tray, an input/output interface circuit board, a mother board, and a third top cover. The first and the second top covers are fixed at two sides of the chassis, where an opening is formed therebetween. The first and the second trays are slidingly disposed at the chassis. The first and the second trays are correspondingly under the second top cover and the first top cover respectively. The input/output circuit boards are disposed on the first trays and the mother boards are disposed on the second trays. The third top cover is located between the first and the second top covers for covering the opening. When the third top cover is detached from the chassis, the electronic components disposed therein can be taken out from the opening. | 10-21-2010 |
20100265650 | SERVER - A sever including a chassis, at least one first tray, at least one second tray, a power supply module, multiple input/output interface circuit boards, and multiple mother boards is provided. The first and second trays are slidably disposed in the chassis, and the first and second trays can be drawn out of the chassis in opposite directions. The power supply module is disposed on a bottom plate of the chassis. The input/output interface circuit boards are disposed on the first tray, respectively. The power supply module is located between two input/output interface circuit boards. Each input/output interface circuit board has multiple input/output interfaces. The mother boards are disposed on the second trays, respectively. The input/output interface circuit boards and the power supply module are correspondingly electrically connected to the mother boards. | 10-21-2010 |
20110043994 | SERVER DEVICE WITH A STORAGE ARRAY MODULE - A server device with a storage array module is provided. The server device includes a chassis, a motherboard module, and a storage array module. The motherboard module and the storage array module are disposed in the chassis. The storage array module includes a first tray removably disposed in the chassis, a hard disk back panel fixed to a bottom of the first tray, and several hard disks hot-pluggably disposed in the first tray. The hard disk back panel is electrically connected to the motherboard module, and the hard disks are electrically connected to the hard disk back panel and driven to move into/out the chassis with the first tray. | 02-24-2011 |
20110096484 | LAYOUT STRUCTURE OF SERVER CHASSIS - A server chassis layout structure includes a chassis body, a partition plate, and a power backplane module. The chassis body includes a bottom plate, first and second top plates, and two side plates. The first and second top plates form a first opening therebetween. The side plates are mounted between the bottom and top plates. The partition plate includes at least one retaining portion and is perpendicularly fixed to the bottom plate below the first opening. The partition plate divides the chassis body into first and second sections. The power backplane module includes at least one lock portion and is vertically inserted into the chassis body via the first opening. The lock portion interferes with the retaining portion so as to assemble the power backplane module into the chassis body above the partition plate, and both the power backplane and the partition plate are exposed via the first opening. | 04-28-2011 |
20110191514 | SERVER SYSTEM - A server system includes a management board having a baseboard management controller provided thereon; a plurality of middle boards separately connected to the management board; a plurality of mainboards separately connected to the middle boards; and a hard disk (HD) module connected to the middle boards. Each of the middle boards has a plurality of mainboard connection ports and at least one HD signal connection port. The mainboards are separately connected to the mainboard connection ports, and the baseboard management controller manages the mainboards via the middle boards. The HD module has an HD backplane being connected to the HD signal connection ports, and the mainboards are connected to the HD module via respective correspondingly connected middle board. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194242 | STORAGE - A storage server includes a case, an adapter board, a control board module, a power supply module, a plurality of hard disk units, a plurality of dividing boards, and a case cover. The adapter board divides the case into a first space and a second space. The control board module and the power supply module are disposed in the first space and electrically connected to the adapter board. The hard disk units are disposed in the second space, and the hard disk backboards thereof are connected to the adapter board via cables. The dividing boards are used to separate the hard disk units. The second space and the hard disk units disposed therein are covered with the case cover. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194245 | SERVER - A server is disclosed, which includes two dividing plates disposed between the side plates, several rails disposed on the side plates and the dividing plates, at least one adapter board module, and several main boards. The dividing plates are parallel to the side plates. Each dividing plate has a position pin. The rails are parallel to the bottom plate. The main boards are slid in the rails. The adapter board module has a support piece and an adapter board. The support piece has position holes to be coupled to the position pins and fix the adapter board module on the dividing plates. The adapter board is disposed on the support piece and has two first gold finger interfaces. Each main board has a second gold finger interface. The first gold finger interfaces are coupled to the second gold finger interfaces, thereby each adapter board is connected to two main boards. | 08-11-2011 |
20110222227 | SERVER AUXILIARY OPERATING SYSTEM - A server auxiliary operating system is disclosed, which includes a case, a plurality of swappable GPUs and a printed circuit back plane. The case includes a bottom board and a first mounting bay located at the front portion of the case. The swappable GPUs are disposed in the first mounting bay. The printed circuit back plane is disposed on the bottom board and has a plurality of first interfaces and a plurality of second interfaces electrically corresponding to the first interfaces, wherein the swappable GPUs are respectively coupled to the first interfaces, and the servers are respectively electrically connected to the corresponding swappable GPUs through the second interfaces respectively connected to the servers so as to expand the server operation capability. | 09-15-2011 |
20110273836 | RACK SERVER - A rack server includes a case, a fan module and two lobe frames. The case has a bottom board, two side walls, a first and a second end opposite to each other. The two side walls connect to the bottom board, and each of the side walls has a first and a second fixing portion respectively located at the first and the second end. The fan module is detachably disposed in the case and can optionally switch its orientation so that its outlet is towards the first or the second end. When the two lobe frames are optionally mounted at the two first fixing portions, the case is suitable to be installed into a server rack from the second end; when the two lobe frames are optionally mounted at the two second fixing portions, the case is suitable to be installed into the server rack from the first end. | 11-10-2011 |
20110279964 | STORAGE DEVICE - A storage device suitable to be installed on a rack includes a case, a plurality of storage units, a power module, a management module and an adapting board, wherein the case includes a bottom board, a first side wall, a second side wall and a partition board. The partition board is located over the bottom board to divide the case into an upper and a lower accommodation spaces. The storage units are disposed in the upper accommodation space and the power module is disposed in the lower accommodation space. The power module includes a power backboard and power suppliers plugged at the power backboard. The management module disposed in the lower accommodation space has an expanding interface. The adapting board is disposed in the lower accommodation space and electrically connected to the power backboard, the management module and the storage units. | 11-17-2011 |
20110310550 | RACK SERVER - A rack server including a cabinet, at least one case, at least one replaceable module, and at least one fan is provided. The case is disposed in the cabinet movably and has an opening and a plurality of vents. The replaceable module is moved in or out of the cabinet along a first axis through the opening. The fan is disposed between the cabinet and the case. An air flow generated by the fan flows in or out of the case through the vents. The air flow flows along a second axis in the case. The first axis is substantially perpendicular to the second axis. | 12-22-2011 |
20120020006 | SERVER - A server includes a rack, a slide rail, an input/output (I/O) dock, and a chassis. The rack has a front end and a rear end. The slide rail is disposed in the rack. The I/O dock is located at the rear end of the rack and fixed to an end of the slide rail. The chassis is slidably disposed on the slide rail. Here, the chassis moves relatively to the rack along the slide rail to come into contact with the I/O dock or to be away from the I/O dock. | 01-26-2012 |
20120262864 | SERVER RACK SYSTEM - A server rack system includes a rack, servers, and a heat-dissipating wall. The rack has guiding rails, a front end, and a rear end opposite to the front end. The servers slidably configured on the guiding rails and in the rack are adapted for being moved into or out of the rack from the front end. The heat-dissipating wall is pivoted to the rear end and adapted for being folded against or unfolded away from the rear end. The heat-dissipating wall includes a fan wall. Fans lie on the fan wall. The fans are adapted for sucking cool air, such that the cool air enters the rack from the front end and passes through the servers. Heat exchange between the cool air and the servers is carried out to generate hot air that flows out of the rack through the heat-dissipating wall to dissipate heat of the servers. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262865 | SERVER RACK SYSTEM - A server rack system includes a rack, a power transmission module, a power supply module, and operating units. The power transmission module configured at the rack includes first, second, and third conductive pillars. When the power supply module slidably configured in the rack is completely installed in the rack, the power supply module electrically connects the first, second, and third conductive pillars to receive high-voltage direct-current (DC) electric power through the first conductive pillar electrically connecting an external power supply. When the operating units slidably configured in the rack are completely installed in the rack, the operating units electrically connect the second and third conductive pillars. The completely installed operating units transmit signals indicating the complete installation to the power supply module, such that the power supply module converts the high-voltage DC electric power into low-voltage DC electric power and transmits the low-voltage DC electric power to the operating units. | 10-18-2012 |
20140085805 | STORAGE SERVE - A storage server includes a cage, a midplane fixed on the cage, a fan module on midplane, at least one host, detachably disposed on the cage and electrically connected to the midplane, a plurality of HDD backplanes, detachably disposed on the cage and electrically connected to the midplane, and a plurality of data HDDs, detachably disposed on the cage and electrically connected to the HDD backplanes. The host can be detached from the cage along a first direction. The HDD backplanes can be detached from the cage along a second direction opposite to the first direction. The data HDDs and the host are respectively located at two opposite sides of the fan module, the data HDDs can be detached from the cage along a third direction intersected with the second direction and the first direction. | 03-27-2014 |