Pole mount system for facilitating installation of heavy telecommunications equipment
Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number:
11839048
A pole mount system has an enclosure, an enclosure mounting assembly, and a clamp system. The enclosure mounting assembly is affixed to the exterior of the enclosure. The clamp system grips the pole. The enclosure mounting assembly and the clamp system have complementary fastening structures to secure the enclosure to the pole.
Reference metal layer for setting the impedance of metal contacts of a connector
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11800637
A circuit board has an electrical circuit and a connector that is attached to the circuit board. The connector has metal contacts. A housing of the connector has an embedded reference metal layer that is disposed under a single-ended metal contact or differential metal contacts. The reference metal layer sets the impedance of the single-ended metal contact or the differential metal contacts.
Setting the impedance of signal traces of a circuit board using a reference trace
Granted: April 18, 2023
Patent Number:
11632857
A circuit board has an edge connector with signal traces. The signal traces are formed on a dielectric layer of the circuit board. A reference trace is formed within the dielectric layer or on another surface of the dielectric layer. Parameters of the reference trace are adjusted to set an impedance of a single-ended signal trace or a differential impedance of two adjacent signal traces.
Inspection of circuit boards for unauthorized modifications
Granted: March 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11599988
A target image of a target circuit board and a gold image of a gold circuit board are taken by an image acquisition system. Fiducial points are located on the target image and on the gold image. Perspective transformation is performed on the target image using the fiducial points on the target image for reference and on the gold image using the fiducial points on the gold image for reference. After perspective transformation, an anomalous section of the target image is identified by…
Electronic devices for expansion
Granted: February 28, 2023
Patent Number:
11594832
The present disclosure is related to electronic devices. At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device comprising a circuit board, a first connector, and a second connector. The first connector and the second connector are disposed on the circuit board. The first connector is different from the second connector. The second connector is adjacent to the first connector. The first connector is arranged along a reference line in a first direction, and the…
Circuit card with onboard non-volatile memory for providing cable assembly data to network interface controller chips
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11502433
A cable assembly has a cable with a transceiver module on one end. The transceiver module is plugged into an interface connector of a circuit card, which also has a network interface controller chip, an onboard non-volatile memory, and a control unit. The control unit reads cable assembly data stored in a non-volatile memory of the transceiver module over a serial bus and copies the cable assembly data to the onboard non-volatile memory. The control unit initiates transfer of the cable…
Telecommunication cabinet with hidden anti-theft heat dissipation module
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11445633
A telecommunication cabinet with anti-theft function includes a cabinet body, a cabinet door, a fan module, and a plurality of coupling parts. The cabinet body includes a cabinet and a telecommunication module. The cabinet door covers the cabinet body and is provided with a snap hole. A bottom side of the cabinet door is provided with an installation opening. The fan module includes multiple fans and an elastic clip, and the elastic clip is provided with a bump. When the fan module is…
Network switches with secured switch ports to baseboard management controllers
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316904
A server management switch discovers and identifies its switch ports that are connected to communication ports of baseband management controllers (BMC's) of server computers. The server management switch isolates the identified BMC-connected switch ports such that network traffic on a BMC-connected switch port is restricted to a switch port that has a connection, either directly by a link or over a server management network, to a server management computer. Network traffic on…
Reference metal layer for setting the impedance of metal contacts of a connector
Granted: April 5, 2022
Patent Number:
11297713
A circuit board has an electrical circuit and a connector that is attached to the circuit board. The connector has metal contacts. A housing of the connector has an embedded reference metal layer that is disposed under a single-ended metal contact or differential metal contacts. The reference metal layer sets the impedance of the single-ended metal contact or the differential metal contacts.
Single-enclosure multi-drive data storage system
Granted: February 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11259435
A system includes a support frame residing within a region conforming to a 3.5-inch form-factor disk drive specification, and a plurality of data storage drives, wherein each data storage drive resides entirely within the region. Each data storage drive conforms to a 2.5-inch form-factor disk drive specification, is mounted on the support frame via at least one external mounting hole that is positioned on a surface of the data storage drive in conformance with the 2.5-inch form-factor…
Automatic multi-chassis link aggregation configuration
Granted: February 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11245644
A computer network includes a server computer having communication ports that are wired to switch ports of two separate network switches. The network switches receive link aggregation control packets from the server computer, and automatically aggregate corresponding switch ports into a single logical port channel based on contents of the control packets.
Automatic configuration of a network switch in a multi-chassis link aggregation group
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11212179
Various embodiments set forth a method for automatically configuring a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG), including receiving first system information associated with the MLAG, receiving a first discovery packet via a first uplink port associated with a first switch that is included in the MLAG, where the first discovery packet includes second system information associated with the MLAG, determining whether the first system information matches the second system information,…
Apparatus and method of allocating data segments in storage regions of group of storage units
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11209990
An apparatus including a control unit, a memory having computer program code, and N groups of storage units electrically connected to the control unit is disclosed. Each of the N groups of storage units has N storage units, each of the N storage units has N storage regions, wherein N is a positive integer. The memory and the computer program code configured to, with the control unit, cause the apparatus to perform: storing a first data segment into an ith storage region of a first…
Server chassis
Granted: December 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11197389
A server chassis includes an outer case including a plurality of outer shells and an insertion space. The outer shell has an inner wall, and an outer rail structure is disposed on the inner wall of the outer shell. The outer rail structures including an outer rail-plate, an outer-rail and a set of ball slide rail. A chassis body is slidably coupled to the insertion space. The chassis body includes inner shells and an accommodating space. An inner rail structure includes an inner…
Server fan with airflow shielding structure
Granted: November 30, 2021
Patent Number:
11191183
A fan module includes a fan body and metal plates. The fan body has a fan seat, and the fan seat is provided with coupling holes. The metal plates enclose the fan body and expose an outlet side. The position assembly includes a position frame and position members. The position frame has an air outlet and is fixed on the outlet side. The airflow shielding structure includes shutter plates and a connection rod. One side of the shutter plates are pivoted at the position frame, and the…
Heat exchange structure of telecommunication cabinet
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11178792
A telecommunication cabinet includes a first and a second cabinet bodies, an internal fan, a partition board, multiple heat dissipation pipes and an external fan. The first cabinet body includes an upper slot and a lower slot. The second cabinet body covers the first cabinet body and includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The internal fan is arranged in the first cabinet body. The partition board is connected with the second cabinet body and includes multiple air vents and multiple air…
Setting the impedance of signal traces of a circuit board using a reference trace
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11166367
A circuit board has an edge connector with signal traces. The signal traces are formed on a dielectric layer of the circuit board. A reference trace is formed within the dielectric layer or on another surface of the dielectric layer. Parameters of the reference trace are adjusted to set an impedance of a single-ended signal trace or a differential impedance of two adjacent signal traces.
Roller platform transport system
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11124358
A roller platform apparatus includes a rigid plate, a set of bearings mounted on the rigid plate, and a set of one or more bars attached to the rigid plate. The set of bars is configured to restrict movement of a load into a space between the set of bearings and lower than the height of the one of more bars, and the height of the one or more bars is lower than the height of the first set of bearings and higher than the rigid plate. At least one advantage in this approach is that an…
Device and method for testing computer system
Granted: September 14, 2021
Patent Number:
11119876
A computer system includes a circuit board, one or more connectors/sockets and a first controller. The connectors/sockets are disposed on the circuit board. The first controller is configured to receive information corresponding to parameters of the circuit board and/or the connectors/sockets before booting up the computer system to run an operating system (OS).
Disaggregated computer system
Granted: September 7, 2021
Patent Number:
11113232
A computer system includes a processor and a memory. The processor is located on a first circuit board having a first connector. The memory is located on a second circuit board having a second connector. The first circuit board and the second board are physically separated from each other but connect to each other through the connector. The processor and the memory are communicated to each other based on a differential signaling scheme.
