IP Library Granted Patent US 11,294,436
Granted Patent B2
US 11,294,436 · App. 16/777,836 · Granted Apr 5, 2022

Modular removable air mover for dual access

Inventors: Shawn Joel Dube (Austin, TX); Robert Warren Johnson (Round Rock, TX)
Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
G06F1/20G06F1/181H05K7/20136
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Patent No.
US 11,294,436
App. No.
16/777,836
Granted
Apr 5, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An equipment rack that includes a modular compute chassis, a modular processing unit located in the modular compute chassis and where the modular processing unit is configured to remove from the front of the modular compute chassis in a frontward direction, relative to the front side of the modular compute chassis, and an air mover unit located in the modular processing unit and where the air mover unit is configured to remove from a rear side of the modular processing unit in a rearward direction, relative to the front side of modular compute chassis.

Claims (16)

1. An equipment rack, comprising:

a modular compute chassis;

a modular processing unit disposed in the modular compute chassis, wherein the modular processing unit is configured to be removed from a front side of the modular compute chassis in a frontward direction, relative to the front side of the modular compute chassis; and

an air mover unit disposed in the modular processing unit, wherein the air mover unit is configured to be removed from a rear side of the modular processing unit in a rearward direction, relative to the front side of modular compute chassis, and the air mover unit can be removed without removing the modular processing unit from the modular compute chassis.

2. The equipment rack of claim 1 , wherein a rear side of the equipment rack is disposed near an obstruction, wherein the rear side of the modular processing unit is disposed on the rear side of the equipment rack.

3. The equipment rack of claim 1 , wherein the modular processing unit is operatively connected to a shared resource interface of the modular compute chassis.

4. The equipment rack of claim 3 , wherein the shared resource interface is disposed on an interior of the modular compute chassis.

5. The equipment rack of claim 4 , wherein the shared resource interface is configured to physically contact a rear communication interface of the modular processing unit.

6. The equipment rack of the claim 1 , wherein a second modular processing unit is disposed in the modular compute chassis.

7. The equipment rack of claim 6 , wherein the second modular processing unit is disposed horizontally adjacent to the modular processing unit.

8. The equipment rack of claim 7 , wherein the equipment rack comprises a second modular compute chassis.

9. The equipment rack of claim 8 , wherein the second modular compute chassis is disposed vertically adjacent to the modular compute chassis.

10. A method for removing an air mover unit, comprising: gaining access to a rear side of a modular processing unit, wherein the modular processing unit is disposed in a modular compute chassis, wherein the modular computer chassis is disposed in an equipment rack; disengaging the air mover unit from the modular processing unit without removing the modular processing unit from the modular compute chassis; and translating the air mover unit out of the modular processing unit, wherein the air mover unit is configured to remove from the rear side of the modular processing unit in a rearward direction, relative to a front side of modular compute chassis.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein gaining access to the rear side of the modular processing unit comprises:

making a determination that the rear side of the modular processing unit is accessible; and

proceeding to the rear side of the modular processing unit.

Assignments (9)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (052216/0758) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0680 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053311/0169) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0742 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053546/0001) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL MARKETING L.P. (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.); DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC. AND WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.); EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 071642/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AF REEL 052243 FRAME 0773 Recorded Nov 2, 2021
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 058001/0152 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 053311/0169 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053546/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 26, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
Reel/Frame 052243/0773 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (NOTES) Recorded Mar 24, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 052216/0758 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2020
From: DUBE, SHAWN JOEL; JOHNSON, ROBERT WARREN
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Reel/Frame 051714/0027 →
Continuity (1)
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