WO2016209251A1 - Châssis porteurs - Google Patents

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WO2016209251A1
WO2016209251A1 PCT/US2015/037905 US2015037905W WO2016209251A1 WO 2016209251 A1 WO2016209251 A1 WO 2016209251A1 US 2015037905 W US2015037905 W US 2015037905W WO 2016209251 A1 WO2016209251 A1 WO 2016209251A1
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Dave PRESTON
Herbert J TANZER
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B33/00—Constructional parts, details or accessories not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G11B33/12—Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules
    • G11B33/121—Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules the apparatus comprising a single recording/reproducing device
    • G11B33/123—Mounting arrangements of constructional parts onto a chassis
    • G11B33/124—Mounting arrangements of constructional parts onto a chassis of the single recording/reproducing device, e.g. disk drive, onto a chassis

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  • the storage devices can include hard drives (HDs), solid state drives (SSD), and the iike.
  • HDs hard drives
  • SSD solid state drives
  • iike the iike
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example variable carrier frame.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an example variable carrier frame and storage device assembly.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example variable carrier frame and storage device assembly.
  • FIG.4A illustrates multiple example variable carrier frames inserted in a corresponding carrier cage.
  • FIG.4B illustrates multiple example carrier frames inserted in a corresponding carrier cage.
  • FIG.4B depicts a flowchart of an example method of setting dimensions of a variable carrier frame.
  • the storage devices may be mounted in carrier frames.
  • the carrier frames are inserted into corresponding carrier cages to mechanically and electrically couple the storage devices to power and data buses.
  • Multiple carrier frames can be inserted into carrier cages to connect multiple storage devices to a storage area network or other data access architecture.
  • Various server and cloud computing installations can include large arrays of electronic storage devices. Such arrays can provide computing systems with large data storage and retrieval capabilities.
  • Electronic storage devices such as hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs), memristor arrays, and the like, come in standard and custom form factors or housings that include various functionality.
  • the housings can include mounting elements for securing and protecting the subcomponents of the storage devices (e.g., the physical storage memory media, printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, connectors, power converters, etc.). Some of such subcomponents can provide functionality for accessing data stored on a memory media included therein.
  • serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) hard drives and SSDs can be disposed in corresponding housings that include connectors and control logic for retrieving data from specific memory locations in response to requests from a computer system or processing unit.
  • Some electronic storage devices may even include a dedicated controller to execute code that cause the controller to perform various memory specific operations, such as bad sector recovery, indexing, defrag mentation, and the like.
  • some electronic storage devices may be less sophisticated. Such storage devices may include simplified housings and include limited or no specialized storage device functionality, in electronic storage devices with limited or basic internal functionality, various storage device functionality can be handled by an external controller that sends requests and receives responses through physical connections (e.g., connectors, pins, ports, etc.) included in the electronic storage device housing.
  • physical connections e.g., connectors, pins, ports, etc.
  • the complexity and functionality of electronic storage devices can vary. Due to the large variety of electronic storage devices the term “electronic storage device” can refer to any of a number of storage devices. Accordingly, for the sake of simplicity and clarity, the term “electronic storage device”, as used herein, can refer to any storage device regardless the memory media technology, form factor, communication protocol, connector type, or level of control logic or functionality included therein.
  • electronic storage devices can be connected to a communication and/or power bus using corresponding connectors.
  • some electronic storage devices include connectors having arrays of pins arranged to mate with corresponding connectors having arrays of slots.
  • the pins may be connected to the bus, while the slots are included in the electronic storage device. In either case, the connectors of the storage devices are aligned with connectors of the bus and then coupled together.
  • an electronic storage device can be coupled to a variable carrier frame made in accordance with implementations of the present disclosure, in various example implementations, an electronic storage device can be coupled to a variable carrier frame with dimensions that are adjusted to accommodate the dimensions of the electronica storage device, as described herein in reference to the figures.
  • variable carrier frame 100 is depicted in FIG. 1.
  • the variable carrier frame 100 can include dimensions and mounting elements, in various implementations, the dimensions and configuration of the components of variable carrier frame 100 can be variable or adjustable based on the dimensions of electronic storage device or carrier cage with which it will be used.
  • the dimensions, such as the width and height H 112 of the cross member 105 and/or extendable arms 110 can correspond to the dimensions of the carrier cage into which the carrier frame 100 is to be inserted.
  • the width W 111 between the extendable arms 110 and the length L 113 to which the extendable arms 110 are extended can correspond to dimensions of a particular electronic storage device and or the carrier cage with which die carrier frame 100 is to be used.
  • the carrier frame 100 can include extendable arms 110 coupled to a cross member 10S at a distance W 111 from one another.
  • the distance W 111 can correspond to a dimension (e.g., the outer width) of a housing of the electronic storage device.
  • the width W 111 can be variable so that it can be adjusted to the dimension of the intended electronic storage device.
  • the extendable arms 110 can be positioned relative to one another to accommodate the width of a particular electronic storage device.
  • he extendable arms 110 can each include a movable coupling element that match a coupling element in the cross member 105.
  • the coupling elements white not shown in FIG. 1A, can include T-shaped or L- shaped elements on the extendable arms 110 that couple into
  • extendable arms 110 can include multiple elements that move (e.g. slide) relative to one another to vary the length L 113 to match a dimension of a particular electronic storage device and/or to position mounting elements 120 relative to mounting elements disposed in the electronic storage device, in the particular example shown in FIG. 1A, the extendable arms 110 include two sliding elements 121.
  • One of the sliding elements 121 can include a track or rail 121-1 into which another sliding element 121-2 can be inserted.
  • the variable length L 113 can be varied in the direction 11 .
  • the variable length L 113 is continuously adjustable from a minimum length to a maximum length.
  • the variable length L 113 can be adjusted to one of several predetermined or incremented intermediate lengths from a minimum length to a maximum length.
  • the minimum length, the maximum length, and the intermediate lengths can correspond to standard or customized dimensions of electronic storage devices with which the carrier frame 100 is to be used, in addition, the minimum length, the maximum length, and the intermediate lengths can be defined by spaced catches, notches, or incrementally positioned mounting elements in the sliding elements 121. As such, the length L 113 of the extendable arms can be set to a predefined length by setting the relative positions of the sliding elements by engaging or snapping-into a particular incrementally positioned mounting element.
  • mounting elements 120 can include through holes that match up with threaded holes in the electronic storage device through which screws can be disposed. Accordingly, in such implementations the screws disposed in the through holes couple the carrier frame 100 to the electronic storage device and set the variable length L 113.
  • the mounting elements 120 can include clips, slots, rivets, catches, and the like to couple the variable carrier frame 100 to the intended electronic storage device.
  • FIG. 1 B is an expanded view of the example variable carrier frame 100 that illustrates the sliding elements 121. While only two sliding elements 121-1 and 121-2 are depicted in FIG. 1B, other implementations of the present disclosure may include more sliding elements 121. In such implementations, the sliding elements 121 can include multiple nesting sliding elements that can provide for shorter minimum variable lengths L 113.
  • FIG. 2 depicts an expanded view of an example assembly that includes the example carrier frame 100 and corresponding electronic storage device 200.
  • electronic storage device 200 can include a hard drive, and SSD, or any other housing containing electronic storage media and or associated control logic.
  • the electronic storage device 200 can include a housing having specific dimensions.
  • the housing of electronic storage device can have a length L' 213, a height H' 212, and width W' 211.
  • the length L 1 113-1 and/or the width W 111 can be set to correspond to length L' 213 and/or width W' 211.
  • the electronic storage device 200 can then be disposed in between the extendable arms 110.
  • the mounting elements 120 in the extendable arms 110 and mounting elements 210 in the housing of electronic storage device 200 can be aligned to couple electronic storage device 200 to the variable carrier frame 100.
  • the through holes 120 in the extendable arms 110 can match up with threaded holes 210 in the housing of the electronic storage device 200 so that screws may be inserted to secure the carrier frame to the housing.
  • the length L 1 113-1 can correspond to the minimum length of the variable carrier frame 100 that corresponds to the dimension L' 213 of the shortest compatible electronic storage device 200.
  • the variable carrier frame can be expanded to accommodate electronic storage devices having different lengths and or widths.
  • the electronic storage device comprises a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) device that uses a SATA-to-serial attached small computer interface (SAS) bridge, or SATA-to-SAS bridge, device to communicate with an information bus in a carrier cage
  • the extendable arms 110 can be extended to accommodate the additional length.
  • the bridge device 301 can include control logic, circuitry, hardware, and/or executable code to convert commands between an information bus and the electronic storage device 305.
  • FIG. 3 depicts an example assembly that uses the variable carrier frame 100 in an extended configuration to accommodate and couple to an electronic storage assembly 300 that includes a housing of electronic storage device 305 of a particular length and a bridge device 301 of a particular length. Accordingly, when the electronic storage device 305 is coupled to a bridge device 301 by a coupler 303.
  • the overall length of the electronic storage assembly 300 is a composite of the lengths of the housing of electronic storage device 305, the coupler 303, the bridge device 301 , and the coupler 307.
  • the composite length of the electronic storage assembly 300 can correspond to the depth of a corresponding carrier cage in which the electronic storage assembly 300 is to be inserted.
  • variable carrier frame 100 can be extended to a length 113-2.
  • mounting elements 120 can be used to secure the variable carrier frame 100 to the electronic storage assembly 300.
  • the variable carrier frame 100 can be coupled to the housing of electronic storage device 305 with or without the bridge device 301. Accordingly, implementations of the variable carrier frame 100 can be used as a universal carrier frame usable to mount electronic storage devices or assemblies having different lengths in carrier cage is having corresponding depths.
  • FIG- 4A depicts an example storage array 400 that includes a carrier cage 401 and multiple variable carrier frames 100. in such
  • the carrier cage 401 can include internal tracks for accepting the variable carrier frames 100 and connections that align with connectors on the mounted electronic storage devices 200.
  • the variable carrier frame 100 with extendable arms 110 configured to have a length L 113 corresponding to a depth Di 413 of the carrier cage 401 and/or the length L' 213 of the electronic storage device 200 can be inserted into the carrier cage 400 so that the electronic storage device 200 is property aligned with a particular slot of the carrier cage 401.
  • the connectors of the electronic storage device 200 are automatically aligned with connectors in the carrier cage 401 that provide power and/or communication connections to the electronic storage device 200.
  • the carrier cage 401 can be dimensioned to
  • dimension Xi 411 can be dimensioned to accommodate an integer number of carrier frames 100 having a particular height H 112.
  • the dimension Yi 412 can be dimensioned to accommodate the overall width of the variable carrier frame 100 and/or cross member 105.
  • the example storage array 402 depicted in FIG.4B can include a carrier cage 403 and multiple variable earner frames 100.
  • the carrier cage 403 has a depth Dz 423 dimensioned to accommodate an extended length of an electronic storage assembly.
  • depth D2 423 can correspond to the extended length L2113-2 of the electronic storage assembly 300 that includes both electronic storage device 305 and bridge device 301.
  • the extendable arms 110 of the variable carrier frame 100 can be extended to a length corresponding to the extended length 113-2 to couple to the electronic storage assembly 300.
  • the variable carrier frame 100 and the electronic storage assembly 300 can then be inserted into the carrier cage 403.
  • the backend coupler 307 of the bridge device 301 can be aligned and mated with a corresponding coupler or connector in the back of the carrier cage 403.
  • the dimensions of carrier cage 403 can correspond to the dimensions of the carrier frames 100 and/or fil e electronic storage assemblies 300.
  • the dimension Y 2 422 can correspond to the overall width of variable carrier frame 100 and the dimension X 2 421 can correspond to an integer number of the height H 112 of the variable carrier frame 100.

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Dans des exemples de la présente invention, un châssis porteur comprend un élément transversal, un premier bras extensible couplé à l'élément transversal pour s'étendre d'une première longueur variable afin de supporter un premier côté d'un dispositif de stockage électronique devant être supporté, et un second bras extensible couplé à l'élément transversal à une distance, correspondant à une largeur du dispositif de stockage électronique, du premier bras extensible pour s'étendre d'une seconde longueur variable afin de supporter un second côté du dispositif de stockage électronique.
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