Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-Packard Company

Martha G Peterson

Eric C Peterson

Brent A Boudreaux

Farrukh S Syed

Richard A Schumacher

J Michael Andrewartha

Michael Jay Zalta

Scott Stuart Smith

Patrick Wesley Clark

Kirankumar Chhaganlal Patel

Terrel L Morris

Lee Thomas VanLanen

Jomichael Porter

Steven A Belson

Paul Anthony Wirtzberger

Jeffrey Todd Haselby

Sam Ivey

Robert W Skoog

Vic Hong Chia

Bryan Wayne Pogor

Lee Thomas Van Laren

Various embodiments of an electronic system and method for removing a power module from an electronic system are provided. The electronic system includes a power module that supplies power to a load and is movable along an axis from an enabling position to a disconnected position. The electronic system also includes a release control that restricts the movement of the power module along the axis when the power module is moved beyond a disabling position located between the enabling position and the disconnected position.

Electronic system having a release control and method

A direct current (DC) power port is included in a rack to provide DC power to electrical equipment external to the rack.

DC power port in a rack

A cable assembly comprising a hollow sleeve, an electrical conductor within the hollow sleeve, and first and second connectors on opposing ends of the electrical conductor that are fastened to opposing ends of the sleeve. The first connector is adapted to blind-mate to a corresponding connector in a cabinet backplane and the second connector is adapted to couple to an electronic device to be installed in the cabinet. Power is provided from the backplane to the electronic device via the electrical conductor. The hollow sleeve is disposed within a tunnel supported by the cabinet. The hollow sleeve has a length greater than that of the tunnel such that the first connector protrudes from a first opening of the tunnel and the second connector protrudes from a second opening of the tunnel.

Cable assembly

The input/output expansion system (&ldquo;I/O expansion system&rdquo;) for an external or main computing unit includes a rack; at least one I/O expansion module mounted to the rack, the I/O expansion module comprising at least one I/O circuit card; a utilities control module mounted to the rack, the utilities control module being configured to receive a command from the external computer unit and generating a signal in response to the command for distribution to at least one I/O expansion module; and expansion power chassis mounted to the rack, the an expansion power chassis being electrically connected to a power source and being configured to distribute the power to the at least one I/O expansion module and the utilities control module.

Modular input/output expansion system for an external computer

A cable management system includes an opposed pair of articulated A-frame support assemblies that are connected by a cable support platform, such as a roller. The A-frame support assemblies may be reach between an electrical system chassis and an equipment rack in a manner that permits the elevation of the cable support platform to change concomitant with extensile and de-extensile motion of the electrical system chassis relative to the equipment rack. This change in elevation manages slack in the cable to feed cable forwardly during extensile motion of the electrical system chassis and to pull cable rearwardly with de-extensile motion.

Management system for multiple cables

The invention provides EMI cable shield termination apparatus. The apparatus includes (a) a cable exit panel coupled to a first electronic system and (b) one or more clamps coupled to the exit panel. The exit panel serves as an interface for one or more cables coupled to the first electronic system; the clamps provide mechanical coupling, and EMI shielding, for the cables to that interface. The exit panel couples to electrical ground such as through connection to the chassis of the first electronic system. The clamps also couple to ground through connection with the exit panel. Preferably, one end of the cables attaches to the clamps, at the interface formed by the exit panel, and the other end of the cables attach to respective ferrules coupled to a second electronics system. Beneficially, the apparatus reduces EMI effects generated from the first electronic system and coupled into the second electronic system. In preferred aspects of the invention, the first and second electronic systems are computers; and each of the clamps forms at least one aperture (&ldquo;clamp aperture&rdquo;) to affix to a cable coupled to the first electronic system. The invention facilitates configurable cable shield terminations to meet mechanical requirements of a given installation; that is, a single cable construction permits multiple optional clamp attachment locations to accommodate different separations of the attached equipment.

Cable shield termination system using clamps and ferrules

A control panel assembly includes a modular control panel box that is mounted to a door. The door is used to cover an opening that affords access to an internal component bay that resides within an electrical system housing. A tongue and groove joint provides a mechanism for selective positioning of the modular control panel box on the door such that the modular control panel box may be moved to a position that does not interfere with opening motion of the door that, otherwise, would occur when the modular control panel box moves rearwardly of the opening to contact an adjacent chassis.

Control panel assembly

A shielded cable assembly contains one or more hardpoints that resist damage arising from possible collapse of the shielded cable assembly under strong compressional forces that are exerted by a clamp assembly in the form of a separable block having first and second opposed members. The hardpoint contains a conduit that protects a data transfer line or cable bundle by compressing electromagnetic shielding between the conduit and the clamp assembly. Cable electromagnetic shielding may be exposed over a selected hardpoint for use as needed in a particular application.

Shielded cable system for high speed cable termination

A shielded cable assembly contains a hardpoint that resists damage arising from possible collapse of the shielded cable assembly under strong compressional forces that are exerted by a clamp assembly in the form of a separable block having first and second opposed members. The hardpoint contains a conduit that protects a data transfer line or cable bundle by compressing electromagnetic shielding between the conduit and the clamp assembly.

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McKinney, TX, United States of America

Martha G Peterson