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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2016
Zt Group Int'l, Inc., Secaucus, NJ (US);
Michael Schrempp, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Chen An, Bogota, NJ (US);
Zichun Song, Saddle Brook, NJ (US);
Raphael Deng, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Kevin R. Qualters, North Haledon, NJ (US);
Jonah Dunham, Seattle, WA (US);
ZT Group Int'l, Inc., Secaucus, NJ (US);
Abstract
An expansion device is disclosed for including a plurality of modular devices within a pre-defined volume, such as the drive bay of a computing device. The expansion device may include a standardized bus connection and circuitry connecting to a controller chip, circuitry electrically coupling the controller chip to a plurality of modular devices, and a housing that houses the controller chip, connecting circuitry, and modular devices and that fits within the pre-defined volume.