Dell Products Inc.

Yao-Chien Lien

Chih-Hsiang Lee

Chien Hung Chou

Hsien-Chih Wu

Kuo-Chih Lin

Yi-Hsin Kuan

Martin Hardis

Yu-LIn Chen

Chin-An Huang

Chien-Hung Chou

Yen Tai Liu

An expansion card includes a mounting bracket with a full height I/O panel with a top mounting panel attached thereto extending orthogonally away. A low profile printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) is physically attached to at least one of the top mounting panel and the full height I/O panel, and the mounting bracket and low profile PCBA define a full height expansion card. The low profile PCBA has a card edge that is insertably connectable to an I/O connector of an information handling system (IHS) to communicate with other components of the IHS. A full height heat sink is attached to the low profile PCBA and extends across a portion of the top mounting panel, providing increased heat dissipation for functional components of the low profile PCBA during operation of the low profile PCBA. A battery compartment is mounted on the mounting panel and supplies power to the functional components.

Full height I/O bracket for low profile expansion card

A key lock module for securing a chassis for use with an information handling system to a rack. The key lock module includes a bracket and a rotatable lock housed in the bracket. The rotatable lock includes a locking arm configured to rotate between a locked position and an unlocked position. The key lock module also includes a bracket hook having a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to the bracket such that the bracket hook may be depressed when the rotatable lock is in the unlocked position. The second end is positioned to interface with the locking arm when the rotatable lock is in the locked position such that the bracket hook may not be depressed. The bracket hook also is configured to engage with a rack to prevent a chassis associated with the key lock module from being removed from the rack when the bracket hook is not depressed.

Key lock module for mounting and securing an information handling system

Quick-release device carriers for computer chassis are described. In some embodiments, a carrier configured to couple and to decouple a device into or from a chassis may include: a front panel having a proximal edge, a distal edge opposite the proximal edge, and a handle nearest the proximal edge, where the proximal edge includes at least one protrusion; and a bracket slideable into the chassis, where the bracket includes a lateral portion and a rear portion, where the distal edge is coupled to the lateral portion via a hinge, where the rear portion includes an opening configured to accommodate an electronic connector between the device and the chassis, where the at least one protrusion is configured to latch onto at least one corresponding groove of a fixed portion of the chassis when the carrier is in a closed position, and where the fixed portion is parallel to the lateral portion.

Quick-release device carrier

Daughter cards couple to an information handling system chassis and are secured in place with insertion of a retainer in a retainer guide that aligns to engage with securing elements of the daughter cards coupled to the chassis. A hinge member couples the retainer to the retainer guide between an inserted position and an idle position to maintain the retainer attached to the chassis but removed out of the way for daughter card manipulation during addition or removal of the daughter card at the chassis.

Information handling system tool-less daughter card retainer and latch

Apparatus and methods for retention of computer expansion cards and/or card bay covers inside a card bay of an information handling system chassis, and that may include an expansion card retaining apparatus that includes a pivotable first end configured to attachably rotate relative to a securing surface of the information handling system chassis, a latching second end configured to releasably lock the expansion card retaining apparatus in a locking position that prevents rotation of the expansion card retaining apparatus about the pivotable first end, at least one resiliently deformable coupling section extending between the pivotable first end and the latching second end to maintain the latching second end in the locking position, and a retention section extending between the at least one coupling section and the pivotable first end.

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Yao-Chien Lien