Google Inc.

Avinash Panga

Adam Morton

Madhusudan K Iyengar

Michael Rees Helsel

Ned Lecky

Samuel Gardner Garrett

Yong Hoon Kim

Rachel Soukup

Peter Sarossy

Addison Hammer

Jingwen Mao

Madhusudan Krishnan Iyengar

Michael Helsel

Methods, systems, and media for validating objects within a container, such that a validation system confirms that objects within a container are valid i.e., ready to be shipped from a data center for reuse or ready to be destroyed. The validation system can be used to identify objects, e.g., media, disks, etc., and determine if valid objects are at the correct processing location to be shipped or destroyed. The methods may include identifying the objects, locating an identifier on the object, comparing the identifiers to known identifiers and determining, based on the comparison, if valid objects are at the correct processing location to be shipped or destroyed. The validation system may also use image processing techniques, such as blob detection, to identify invalid objects in the container. The system may reject the entire container if invalid objects are detected.

Validation of objects

An apparatus for handling objects such as information technology equipment racks in an environment such as a data center. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a body having a first mount on a first interior side of the body; and second mount on a second interior side of the body and in same horizontal position as the first mount; and a lifting system comprising one or more lifting elements with one or more retractable wheels coupled each of the one or more lifting elements, wherein, when the lifting system extends outside of the body to handle an object, the object rests on the one or more retractable wheels that are in an extended position, and when the lifting system is substantially inside the body, the retractable wheels are in a retracted position, and the object rests on the first mount and the second mount of the body.

Object transporting apparatus

An apparatus for handling electronic components such as hard disk drives. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a main body defining an interior space with an open front; a drive system that propels and positions the apparatus along horizontal surface; a fan system mounted within the interior space and positioned to blow air down into the interior space; a first gripper apparatus that engages an equipment drawer of an electronics rack; and a second gripper apparatus that grips and removes a target electronic component from a target position located within the equipment drawer, wherein at least a back surface of the main body includes perforations so that sufficient air flow generated by the fan system flows through the perforations to maintain cooling of electronic components in the equipment drawer when the equipment drawer is in the extracted position.

Object handling apparatus

Methods, systems, and apparatus for transporting workcells. In one aspect, a system includes a first fleet of AGVs that each include electro-mechanical interface that is adapted to (i) connect to or lift multiple different types of workcells and (ii) provide charging power to or receive charging power from multiple different types of workcells. A second fleet of multiple different types of workcells are each adapted to perform one or more particular tasks. A control system is configured to identify a set of tasks to be performed by the second fleet of workcells and, for each task, select a workcell to perform the task, select an AGV to transport the selected workcell to a location at which the task is to be performed, and provide, to the selected AGV, instructions that cause the selected AGV to transport the selected workcell to the location at which the task is to be performed.

Modular multifunctional workcells for autonomous guided vehicle applications

A server tray assembly includes a server tray support configured to receive a server board that includes a working fluid conduit fluidly coupled to a server board connector disposed on a back plane of the server board, a back wall of the server tray support includes a fluid connector configured to form an unbiased fluid connection with the server board connector; and a locking assembly secured to at least one of a server rack or the server tray support, the locking assembly disposed opposite the fluid connector is configured to engage a portion of the server board to bias the server board toward the fluid connector to fluidly seal the unbiased fluid connection between the server board connector and the fluid connector of the server tray support.

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Avinash Panga