Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Chris F Felcman

Gary S Landrum

John P Franz

Keith J Kuehn

Belgie B McClelland

Robert J Kelley

Neil L Condra

Stacy L Wolff

David Allen Moore

Chi-Tsong Chu

Pasha S Mohi

Gregory J Mora

Charles W Cochran

Matthew E Stevens

David P Eichberger

Earl W Moore

Michael V Leman

Mark S Tracy

Brooks James Vaughan

Kevin W Mundt

Hoang Thanh Nguyen

Allen T Morrison

Scott Edwards Holloway

Sam D Blackwell

Drew D Granzow

Patrick V Illingworth

Wolfram A Rudiger

Royal H King

D Stephen Goodrich

Kristine Little

Ty Rarick

Brandon W Fears

Scott E Holloway

Examples described herein relate to circuit breaker reset for power distribution units (PDUs). In one example, an apparatus to reset a circuit breaker of a PDU includes a bracket to enclose a portion of a rack rail, where one end of the bracket is coupled to a surface of the PDU including the circuit breaker. The apparatus also includes an elongated member disposed within the bracket, the elongated member includes a distal end to make contact with the circuit breaker, when force is applied to a proximal end of the elongated member, to reset the circuit breaker.

Circuit breaker reset for power distribution units

A shelving apparatus includes a shelf and a kickstand member. The shelf includes a first set of shelf connectors and a second set of shelf connectors. The shelf is movable between a plurality of shelf positions including an extended shelf position and a shelf storage position.

Shelf movable between an extended shelf position and a shelf storage position

Example implementations relate to a connector with a retainer assembly. For example, an apparatus may include a connector having a housing and a retainer assembly to retain a power plug within the housing. The retainer assembly may retain a first type of power plug within the housing with a first retaining feature using a locking fit and retain a second type of power plug within the housing with a second retaining feature using a friction it.

Connector with a retainer assembly

Multi-sectional door for a flexrack server

Door for a flex rack SL-server rack

Multi-sectional door for a flex rack server

Determining power topology of a computer system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including communicating with a first computer system of a plurality of computer systems mounted in a rack (the communicating through dedicated communication conductors integral with a first cord carrying operational power to first computer system), communicating with a second computer system of the plurality of computer systems (the communicating through dedicated communication conductors integral with a second cord carrying operational power to first computer system), determining a power topology regarding the plurality of computer systems based on the communicating, and displaying an indication of the power topology.

Determining power topology of a plurality of computer systems

A mounting assembly for mounting a piece of equipment, such as a power distribution unit to a rack. The mounting assembly includes a mounting bracket attached to the rack, a mounting plate attached to the equipment and a hinge assembly connecting the mounting plate to the first end of the mounting bracket while an attachment mechanism connects the mounting plate to the mounting bracket. A method of accessing the interior of the rack is also disclosed.

Mounting assembly for rack equipment

In a network sensor assembly, network environmental monitor, and associated fabrication methods, a network sensor assembly comprises a panel configured for mounting on a surface, a plurality of addressable sensors coupled to the panel that sense environmental conditions at the surface, a memory device that stores configuration information associated with the plurality of addressable sensors, and a bus. The bus is communicatively coupled to the plurality of addressable sensors and the memory device and is configured for communicatively coupling the network sensor assembly to a network node for communicating data associated with the sensed environmental conditions in a network.

Modular networked sensor assembly

Sensor and LED enclosure

The invention provides a modular network sensor assembly operable to sense environmental conditions at a computer or equipment rack. The network sensor assembly includes a flexible body operable to be folded along a central fold line. The central fold line separates the flexible body into a first panel and second panel. A number of mounting tabs are hingedly attached to either the first panel or second panel. These mounting tabs are operable to secure the network assembly to the computer rack. A number of sensor tabs are located along the central fold line. Addressable sensors capable of sensing environmental conditions are positioned proximate to the sensor tabs, and communicatively coupled to a common bus. A memory device is also communicatively coupled to the common bus and is operable to store configuration information and data associated with the sensed environmental conditions sampled by the addressable sensors.

A rack mount computing system having a keyboard and display assembly mountable in a 1 U rack space. The keyboard and display assembly are provided in a clamshell configuration to reduce space consumption of the keyboard and display assembly to facilitate mounting in the 1 U rack space.

System and method for mounting a keyboard and display assembly in a 1U rack space

A combination of a track ball mechanism and a scroll mechanism. The combination may be placed proximate a standard portion of a keyboard so that a user can access either the track ball mechanism or the scroll mechanism without removing either hand from the standard portion of the keyboard. The track ball mechanism and the scroll mechanism may be integrated with one another to some extent.

Keyboard having a track ball mechanism and a scroll mechanism

A notebook computer base housing has operatively disposed therein a CD ROM drive, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive, an AC/DC electrical power converter, a modem, a PCMCIA card bay structure and a battery. This internal provision of three drive units in addition to the other equipment within the base housing is facilitated from a space standpoint by the vertical stacking of the hard disk drive atop the CD ROM drive within the base housing. To dissipate the operating heat from these components within the base housing, a heat spreader plate is interposed between the CD ROM drive and the overlying hard disk drive, and the high heat-generating components&mdash;namely, the modem, the AC/DC converter, the PCMCIA card bay structure, and the computer processor&mdash;are closely grouped together, with the AC/DC converter in thermal communication with a second heat spreader plate. The processor is disposed above the other high heat-generating components on a horizontally oriented main system circuit board. with the circuit board having top and bottom side heat sink members thermally communicated with the processor. An axial fan disposed in the base housing creates an upper flow of cooling air that passes over the upper heat sink member, and a lower flow of cooling air that passes over the lower heat sink member and the heat-generating components grouped below the processor.

Multi-drive portable computer

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Spring, TX, United States of America

Chris F Felcman