Dell Products Inc.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Celestica Technology Consultancy (Shanghai) Co. Ltd

Yuxin Chen

Qingqiang Guo

Jie Yang

Xiang Yu

Sandburg Hao Hu

Amrita Sidhu Maguire

Haifang Zhai

Yu Ying Wang

Anthony J Sanchez

Mingming Zhang

Aric Hadav

Weidong Zuo

Wenjin Li

Zhao Chen

Chen Zhao

Gemma Hui Chen

Eric Thomas Graham

Kunzheng Zhang

Regan Zhu

Harris Di Dihuweii

Sam Shang

Zhiwen Jiang

Jianguo Pang

Lizzy Yi Sun

Daniel A Field

Alice Aigin Liu

An apparatus comprises an electronic equipment chassis comprising a housing and at least one lid, the housing comprising a control panel with a first set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus also comprises at least one latch configured for securing the at least one lid to the housing, the at least one latch comprising a second set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus further comprises a processing device configured to determine status information for electronic equipment housed in the electronic equipment chassis, the status information characterizing whether at least one of opening and removing the at least one lid is safe to perform at a given time, and controlling, based at least in part on the determined status information, at least one of the first set of indicators and at least one of the second set of indicators.

Controlling multiple status indicators for electronic equipment housed in an electronic equipment chassis

Cooling of an information handling system can be provided liquid-assisted cooling apparatus with liquid. The liquid-assisted cooling apparatus may comprise a drip tray component positioned under a liquid-assisted cooling module having a cooling block, a heat exchanger, and piping connecting the cooling block and heat exchanger. The drip tray can collect fluid leaked by or from the liquid-assisted cooling module. The drip tray may include an absorbent material to contain the leaked fluid and/or a liquid sensor to detect the presence of fluid in the drip tray. The liquid sensor may be coupled to a controller configured to adjust operation of one or more electronic components cooled by the liquid-assisted cooling apparatus when fluid is determined to be present in the drip tray.

Liquid cooling with shared exchanger for an information handling system

A modular information handling system may include one or more information handling resources and an enclosure configured to house the one or more information handling resources, the enclosure comprising a topside cover comprising: a fixed portion mechanically fixed to a remaining portion of the enclosure, a movable portion, and a damping hinge configured to rotatably couple the movable portion to the fixed portion about an axis of rotation defined by the damping hinge, wherein the damping hinge is configured to dampen mechanical rotation of the movable portion relative to the fixed portion when the movable portion mechanically moves towards a closed position relative to the fixed portion.

Cover assembly with damping hinge

An information handling system includes a module configured to be installed into a server rack and a handle assembly. The handle assembly includes a main frame that is rigidly affixed to the module, a handle frame that is movably affixed to the main frame, and a handle that is rigidly affixed to the handle frame. The handle frame and the handle are movable with respect to the main frame between a first, upper position, and a second, lower position.

Latch with movable handle for electronic equipment

A bezel assembly including a front bezel frame, a front bezel scaffold, and a latch apparatus. The front bezel scaffold is connected to the front bezel frame and the front bezel scaffold has a bezel pattern. The latch apparatus is arranged in a shape that is aligned with the bezel pattern and when the latch apparatus is in a latched position, at least a portion of the latch apparatus extends past an edge of the front bezel frame.

Bezel assembly for a computing device

An electronic equipment assembly has an interconnect including columns of signal conductors, connectors mounted to the columns of signal conductors, and a chassis coupled with the interconnect. The chassis provides slots that guide resource devices into engagement with the connectors mounted to the columns of signal conductors to enable the interconnect to electronically access the resource devices. At least one column of the columns of signal conductors of the interconnect is a multi-function column. Each multi-function column is constructed and arranged to electronically access different types of resource devices through a respective connector mounted to that multi-function column.

Electronic equipment that provides multi-function slots

The front of a rack-mounted 2 RU (Rack Unit) chassis includes bays that receive replaceable components, such as storage drives. Two rear slots of such chassis each receive hot-swappable 1 RU servers that couple to a midplane of the chassis. When a server is removed from its slot while the server in the other slot remains operational, the airflow output of the operational server escapes via the empty slot rather than cooling the components in the front-facing bays. Embodiments provide a single-blade air damper that blocks airflow via an empty chassis slot. The single-blade air damper is connected to spring assemblies on both chassis sidewalls. The spring assemblies are maintained in unstable states when servers are installed in both slots of the chassis. Upon a server being removed from a slot, the spring assemblies transition to stable states that position the single-blade air damper to block airflow via the empty slot.

Single-blade air damper for rack-mounted chassis

The front of a rack-mounted 2RU (Rack Unit) chassis includes bays that receive replaceable components, such as storage drives. Two rear slots of such chassis may each receive 1RU servers that couple to a chassis midplane via interposers. Administration of such 2RU chassis is simplified when a 1 RU server can be installed identically in the top or bottom chassis slot. Embodiments provide this capability while avoiding locating interposers along the center of the midplane. A lower guide routes a floating interposer of the server to lower midplane connectors as the server is inserted in the lower slot. An upper guide routes the floating interposer to upper midplane connectors as the server is inserted in the upper slot. The floating interposer moves up and down based vertical travel of guidewheels that protrude from the server and are routed by the guides as the server is inserted in a slot.

Floating interposer

Embodiments include expansion cards that provide a specialized capability, such as networking, when coupled to an Information Handling System (IHS). The expansion card embodiments include a printed circuit board (PCB) of a first width and a heat sink located on a top surface of the PCB. The expansion cards also include pins located on a distal end of the PCB, where the pins are received by a connector of the IHS. Embodiments include a button operable for ejecting a latch of the expansion card from a stored position in response to pressing the button. When ejected, the latch remains within the first width of the PCB, thus supporting high-density configurations of expansion cards. The ejected latch is further operable for an administrator to easily pull the expansion card from the IHS. Expansion card embodiments may also include vents that provide pathways for ventilating heated air away from the heat sink.

Hot-pluggable expansion card supporting high-density configurations

The present disclosure provides a storage cover plate and a storage chassis using the same. The storage cover plate is covered on a storage chassis for accommodating a plurality of storages, wherein the storage cover plate comprises a plurality of closely arranged sub-covers, the plurality of closely arranged sub-covers each corresponds to a row of storages respectively, the plurality of the sub-covers each is capable of sliding along edges of the storage chassis, and the outermost sub-cover is locked with the storage chassis through a locking part. If one of storages needs to be operated, an unlocking operation is performed first and then the sub-cover above the storage is pushed, so that the storage below the sub-cover can be operated directly. The present disclosure is easy to install and convenient to assemble, disassemble and maintain, therefore achieving high economical efficacy and practicability.

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