Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Toyota Research Institute, Inc.

Joseph Fenton

Daniel Dufresne

Thomas Raymond Thibodeau

Ryan Cartland McDaniel

Matthew J Borsini

Spero Tsefrekas

Adrianus Djohan

Jason A Harland

Guy Danner

Ira Spool

Seth O Newburg

Aimee S Goncalves

Erik C Sobel

Calder Phillips-Grafflin

Nicholas Brennan

Jonathan Kalow

Paul F Provost

A robotic grommet installer includes a robotic arm and an installation unit. The installation unit includes a rotary grommet holder rotatively coupled to the robotic arm and an installer coupled to the robotic arm. The rotary grommet holder includes a plurality of grommet chambers spaced circumferentially about a rotational axis of the rotary grommet holder. Each grommet chamber of the plurality of grommet chambers is configured to hold a plurality of grommets. The installer is configured to retrieve a grommet from the rotary grommet holder, wherein the rotary grommet holder is configured to rotate to align the installer with an available grommet positioned within one of the plurality of grommet chambers.

Robotic grommet installers and methods of installing grommets

A status monitoring system includes a signal generation subsystem configured to receive a plurality of binary status signals from a plurality of monitored subcomponents and encode the plurality of binary status signals to generate a status signal indicative of the status of the plurality of monitored subcomponents. One or more processing subsystems are configured to receive the status signal and control a controlled subcomponent based, at least in part, upon the status signal.

Status monitoring system and method

A user-configurable decoder circuit is associated with a controlled subcomponent and is configured to receive a cumulatively-encoded status signal and compare the cumulatively-encoded status signal to a user-definable threshold that defines a subcomponent policy for the controlled subcomponent.

A signal generation subsystem is configured to receive a plurality of status signals from a plurality of monitored subcomponents within a system being monitored and generate a cumulatively-encoded status signal based, at least in part, upon the plurality of binary status signals, which is indicative of the overall health of the system being monitored.

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing secondary power to allow shutdown of a device during a power loss. The method includes monitoring an input power attribute for a data storage device. Upon detection of an anomaly in the input power attribute for the data storage device indicative of a power loss, the method includes providing secondary power to the data storage device for temporary operation of the device to power down.

Method and apparatus for data protection on embedded flash devices during power loss events

A field serviceable IT system includes an IT enclosure. A first connector assembly is positioned within the IT enclosure. At least one I/O module is releasably coupled to the first connector assembly and positioned within the IT enclosure. A disk subsystem is releasably coupled to the at least one I/O module and positioned within the IT enclosure. At least one disk drive assembly is releasably coupled to the disk subsystem and positioned within the IT enclosure. A system board is releasably coupled to the first connector assembly and positioned within the IT enclosure. The system board is configured to be removable from the IT enclosure without first removing the at least one I/O module or the at least one disk drive assembly from the IT enclosure.

Field serviceable IT system

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