Amazon Technologies, Inc.

The Boeing Company

Joel Crain

Darrell Darwin Jones

Roey Rivnay

Scott Edward Krajca

Long H Ly

Mark S Bunker

Chace Wilcoxson

William Mark Megarity

Noah Thomas Kelly

Timothy Allan Pizzino

Andrew Charles Crain

Keegan Chamberlain

A rack-wall computing and/or data storage system includes computing and/or storage devices mounted in enclosures; the enclosures are also mounted in one or more device chassis that fit into one or more vertical slots of an open-faced mounting structure. The mounting structure is free of vertical or horizontal supports on a front side, which allows for a greater density of enclosures (and therefore computing or storage devices) to be mounted in a given volume of space, as compared to conventional racks that include vertical supports at repeating intervals (e.g., every 24 inches). Also, a given device chassis can be extracted from the mounting structure, via the open front face, using a rail system, wherein in the extracted position, the enclosures are accessible for servicing on at least two sides (e.g., front and back).

Compute and/or storage rack-wall

A system for placing a composite ply includes a transfer end effector that is movable relative to a carrier transfer device, configured to convey a ply carrier that supports the composite ply, and a placement end effector that is movable relative to the transfer end effector and to a forming tool. The transfer end effector is configured to remove the ply carrier, supporting the composite ply, from the carrier transfer device and to position the ply carrier for removal by the placement end effector. The placement end effector is configured to remove the ply carrier from the transfer end effector and to apply the composite ply to the forming tool.

Composite ply placement system and method

Growing community of inventors

Renton, WA, United States of America

Joel Crain