Patents by Inventor Charles R. Hanna

Charles R. Hanna has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10672683
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a heat transfer adapter plate. For example, a heat transfer adapter plate can comprise a first retention mechanism to couple a heat transfer device to the heat transfer adapter plate and a second retention mechanism to couple the heat transfer adapter plate to an electronic component. The heat transfer adapter plate can accept a plurality of heat transfer device types, including but not limited to, a passive heat exchanger, an active heat exchanger, and a heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Charles R. Hanna, Brian T. Purcell
  • Publication number: 20190074239
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a heat transfer adapter plate. For example, a heat transfer adapter plate can comprise a first retention mechanism to couple a heat transfer device to the heat transfer adapter plate and a second retention mechanism to couple the heat transfer adapter plate to an electronic component. The heat transfer adapter plate can accept a plurality of heat transfer device types, including but not limited to, a passive heat exchanger, an active heat exchanger, and a heat pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Charles R. Hanna, Brian T. Purcell
  • Publication number: 20180067506
    Abstract: Examples include a module to power and control a pump to cool an electronic module. The module comprises an electronic module connector to connect to a printed circuit assembly of the electronic module. The connector transmits power to provide power to the pump and a control signal to control the pump. A controller may be electrically connected to the electronic module connector to receive the control signal to control the pump. The module may also comprise a first supply connector to connect to a first supply fluid line to provide fluid to the pump and a first return connector to connect to a first return fluid line to receive fluid from the pump. The module may also include a second supply connector to connect to a second supply fluid line and a second return connector to connect to a second return fluid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Charles R. HANNA, Tahir CADER, John FRANZ
  • Publication number: 20160342553
    Abstract: Configuring an expander device of a storage cartridge. The expander device may be configured to partition a time slice of a serially attached small computer system protocol data stream. A request for diagnostic information of components of the storage cartridge is received from a chassis manager. A SATA initiator is injected in a time slice in a response by the expander device to receiving the request from the chassis manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Charles R. Hanna, Henry F. Lada, Martin R. Rogoff
  • Publication number: 20150363346
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to providing serial ATA (SATA) initiator addressing and storage device slicing. In example embodiments, an expander device configures an initiator serial attached SCSI (SAS) address to uniquely identify a SATA initiator, where the SATA initiator is associated with a target address of a SATA storage bridge. Further, the STP storage bridge of the expander device is configured to associate the initiator SAS address with a drive slice of an SATA storage device. At this stage, the expander device receives a SATA request from the SATA initiator, where the SATA request comprises a SATA command and a logical block addressing (LBA) address, and after inserting the initiator SAS address into the SATA request, sends an STP connection request to the target address. The expander device may then offset the LBA address based on the initiator SAS address to obtain an offset LBA address of the SATA storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael L. Sabotta, Balaji Natrajan, Henry F. Lada, JR., Charles R. Hanna
  • Publication number: 20150092788
    Abstract: A base circuit board (80, 280) has a mid-plane connector (82, 282) for connecting the base circuit board (80, 280) to a mid-plane (26, 226) connected to a server board (32, 232). An ethernet input/output port (84, 284) on the base circuit board (80, 280) facilitates communication across the base circuit board (80, 280) to the server board (32, 232).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Michael J. Kennedy, David M. Koonce, Felix L. Erales, Charles R. Hanna
  • Publication number: 20150062789
    Abstract: An adapter (34, 74, 234) is mounted to a server circuit board (32, 232) and to a mid-plane circuit board (66, 266) of a server chassis. The adapter (34, 74, 234) interfaces at least one of an input-output bus, server network, management signals and power from the server circuit board (32, 232) to the mid-plane circuit board (66, 266).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Felix L. Eralses, David M. Koonce, Michael J. Kennedy, Charles R. Hanna