Patents Assigned to Super Micro Computer, Inc.
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Patent number: 8747064Abstract: A two-layer wind-guiding shroud includes a base. The interior of the base includes a first wind-guiding channel and a second wind-guiding channel longitudinally overlapped with each other. The first wind-guiding channel has a first wind entrance and a first wind exit. The second wind-guiding channel has a second wind entrance and a second wind exit. The first wind exit and the second wind exit are staggered. By this arrangement, the airflow generated by a fan can be guided into different wind-guiding channels toward different locations, thereby increasing the heat-dissipating efficiency of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventors: Ku-Yang Chou, Richard S. Chen
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Publication number: 20140082393Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of the hot swapping type uninterruptible power supply module and a plurality of conventional power supply. A HSUPS comprises a battery module and a controller module. A conventional power supplies is connected with an external AC power source and converts into DC voltage to provide power to the electronic system and/or to charge the HSUPS when necessary. The battery module holds the energy needed to power the electronic system during the absences of a conventional power supply and/or external AC power source. The controller module controls the operation to charge the battery, discharge the battery, switch off the HSUPS, or be standby. The controller module has the ability to detect for any failure event. The HSUPS provides power to the electronic system when the external AC power source is interrupted and when all of the conventional power supplies are removed from the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicants: Super Micro Computer Inc., Compuware Technology Inc.Inventor: Chien-Ta Liang
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Patent number: 8315059Abstract: A screw-less fixing assembly for an interface card having a fixing support includes a frame, a movable cover module and an elastic member. The frame has an I/O opening. One side of the I/O opening is provided with an accommodating space. A long plate of the fixing support is positioned to correspond to the I/O opening, and a short plate of the fixing support is received in the accommodating space. The movable cover module is mounted in the accommodating space. The elastic member has an elastic protrusion positioned to correspond to the short plate of the fixing support. The movable cover module is moved to drive the elastic protrusion to tightly fix the short plate of the fixing support to the frame. With this arrangement, the interface card can be rapidly detached from the frame or attached thereto without using screws.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 8089763Abstract: A heat-dissipating assembly for a server includes a housing in which a partitioning plate and a power supply mounted on one side of the partitioning plate are provided. The power supply includes a casing and a power-supplying module received in the casing. The heat-dissipating assembly includes a fan received in the casing and located outside the power-supplying module. The partitioning plate and the casing are respectively provided with a plurality of first heat-dissipating holes and second heat-dissipating holes. The first heat-dissipating holes and the second heat-dissipating holes are positioned to correspond to the fan. The airflow caused by the fan drives the air inside the housing to flow out of the housing via the first heat-dissipating holes and the second heat-dissipating holes. In this way, the heat-dissipating efficiency can be improved without affecting the arrangement of other electronic devices in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 7894195Abstract: A disposing structure of industrial computer chassis includes a chassis shell, two motherboard trays and a back plate. The interior of the chassis shell is divided into a storage unit section and a motherboard section. The interior of the storage unit section is arranged at least one storage unit, while two motherboard trays are disposed in the motherboard section. The interior of each motherboard tray is arranged a motherboard. In the motherboard trays, at least one motherboard tray is extended a wedge frame toward the storage unit section. A transfer card having a hot swapping function is arranged on the wedge frame and is arranged by inserting into the corresponding motherboard. In addition, a back plate is arranged between the storage unit section and the motherboard section. Corresponding to the wedge frame, a slot capable of a hot swapping function is arranged on the back plate. In so doing, the transfer card may be inserted into the slot, thereby, providing a hot swapping function.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 7894208Abstract: A server module includes a tray, a motherboard installed in the tray, and at least one storage device. The tray includes a port erected from a rear end of the tray, a roomage inwardly and concavely disposed on an edge of the motherboard and proximate to the port, and a socket disposed at an edge of the roomage and opposite to the port for connecting the insert roomage of the storage device, such that the storage device is disposed onto the roomage of the motherboard, and the motherboard can be used for expanding the storage device directly.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 7839624Abstract: An industrial computer chassis structure is mainly to partition at least two motherboard sections in the shell of the computer chassis, in each of which a motherboard tray capable of being pulled and drawn is arranged and is provided for placing a motherboard therein. Meanwhile, the two motherboard sections are horizontally disposed by being parallel with each other, in the space between which a power source arrangement section is formed. The power source arrangement section is provided for arranging power supplies of the computer therein. Through this kind of disposition structure, all motherboards in the motherboard sections can be close to the power source arrangement section as near as possible, such that a function of common usage can be achieved for both the hardware connection and the software system control.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 7822127Abstract: Techniques for minimizing signal loss in transit are described. Data signals lose their strengths while traveling across conductive passages such as cooper wire, cooper strip, Printed Circuit Board (PCB), etc. There are two major factors that affect the signal loss: the distance and the speed. To minimize signal loss while maintaining higher rate data signals for I/O, substantially lower rate data signals are used in transit between two interfaces over a signal path.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventors: Ben-Koon Lin, Charles J. Liang
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Patent number: 7813146Abstract: Techniques pertaining to powering multiple platforms with a minimum impact on air passage in a predefined environment are disclosed. Instead of connecting each of the platforms in a chassis to a power supply therein, the present invention uses what is referred to as cascading powering to power all platforms within minimum cable delivery. According to one embodiment of the present invention, each platform is provided with a pair of power connectors. At least one of the platforms has a power connector located towards or near a power supply so that only a short cable is needed to power the platform. The power is serially provided to an adjacent platform via a pair of corresponding connectors, each located on one of the two adjacent platforms. Such configuration is extended to the remaining platforms. As a result, all platforms are powered by the same power supply without using individual cables directly to the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventor: Manhtien Phan
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Patent number: 7735669Abstract: A modular case assembly device including: a lower case, wherein a front wall and a rear wall protrude from a bottom plate respectively, and a left wall and a right wall protrude from left and right sides of the bottom plate respectively, and protruding pieces are punched out from upper edges of the left and right walls; an upper case structured from an upper plate and left and right side wall plates; and resilient springs, each of which is formed a press portion, a through hole and a connecting portion are further respectively formed of the press portion; The protruding pieces of the lower case transversally cross and rest atop the position fixing portions, which assist in increasing stability of the assembled upper case and lower case, and effectively provide convenient and fast assembly and disassembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7706145Abstract: An assembly device for a computer case and outer cover incorporating: a host case provided with a bottom plate and perpendicular left and right side walls, a circuit motherboard fixed within the holding space, a jack panel of relatively small area and size is located at a tail end of the circuit motherboard, and an electrical circuit is printed on an inverse side of the jack panel; a rectangular outer cover, the outer cover can be assembled/disassembled to/from the rectangular gap of the host case, and the jack panel can be plugged into or withdrawn from the socket, thereby realizing a rapid and convenient method of assembling and disassembling the outer cover to and from the host case.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventors: Richard Chen, Albert Hua
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Patent number: 7643273Abstract: A control device of connection studs of a computer includes a plurality of hexagonal grooves which are punched at different distances on a base plate of a computer casing. The groove is provided with a through-hole, hexagonal heads of a set of studs are loosely fitted into the hexagonal grooves, and rods of the studs are loosely transfixed into the through-holes, in order to screw with a circuit board of different size, such that a number of studs to be actually used for screwing can be effectively controlled, and an interference from the unnecessary studs, the circuit board, or other parts can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7639507Abstract: A control device used for a computer casing on which a plurality of expansion cards is inserted, is composed of a first frame and a second frame which are installed in a casing of height of 2 U; a connection element, which is connected on the first and second frames, and is in a vertical state; a right riser card, which is connected on a right side of the connection element; a left riser card, which is connected on a left side of the connection element; a plurality of expansion cards, which is inserted horizontally into a plurality of slots of the right riser card; and a plurality of expansion cards, which is inserted horizontally into a plurality of slots of the left riser card. By this control device, at least more than seven expansion cards or interface cards can be inserted.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer, IncInventors: Richard Chen, Alan Lee
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Patent number: 7618309Abstract: A fan device for a computer host includes a rectangular container having an emplacement sink, a plurality of fans each of whose front and rear surfaces are provided with a plurality of latch holes, a plurality of positioning outer jackets made by a flexible material, and a plurality of positioning inner jackets made by a hard material and inserted into positioning holes of the positioning outer jackets, wherein an exterior edge of positioning outer jacket can be latched and positioned on an inner sink wall of the emplacement sink, so as to latch and fix the fans onto a casing of computer host without using screws, and to achieve the effects of absorbing vibration and reducing a noise at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computers, Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7586764Abstract: A rectifier filter control device for a power supply that includes: A saturable inductor (swing choke), capacitors; and rectifiers connected to a rectifier filter circuit. The rectifier filter circuit further includes two electronic switches, which are respectively connected to two terminals of each of the two rectifiers. Should a reverse current flow back into the rectifier filter circuit, then the two electronic switches assume off states at different time sequences, thereby preventing the reverse current flow from burning out the two electronic switches.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2006Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Hwa-Chu Chiu
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Patent number: 7586748Abstract: A clasp device for a handle of a power supply, which includes: A power supply; a U-shaped handle are movably joined to left and right sidewalls of the power supply; a spring piece respectively provided with a pressure plate and a base plate, wherein two sides of the base plate are fixedly connected to the transversal plate, a gap is formed between the pressure plate and another inner plate surface of the transversal plate, and a protruding portion is located at the base plate; a clasp hole defined in a side plate surface of the power supply; when the U-shaped handle is rotary displaced about shaft tips as center, the protruding portion clasps into/separates from the clasp hole, which prevents the entire spring piece from protruding from the surface of the handle, thereby avoiding hindrance to external objects.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventor: Richard Chen
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Patent number: 7567437Abstract: An assembly device for a power supply is composed of a rectangular case which is provided with a transversal spacer grid in a horizontal direction, with an upper spacer grid and a lower spacer grid being vertically installed above and below the transversal spacer grid, to divide the rectangular case into four rectangular positioning holes; and four rectangular power supplies which are inserted and fitted into the four rectangular positioning holes respectively, such that when the four power supplies start, four fans at their front parts can be activated, thereby allowing air inside and outside the rectangular case to be able to flow uniformly.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7558035Abstract: An anomaly control device for a dual fan of computer is composed of a first and second coil, a first and second driving IC, a controller, and a voltage level comparing circuit. The voltage level comparing circuit will perform a voltage dividing to a first and second reference potential signals input from the first and second driving ICs to obtain a third reference potential signal which is compared with a reference pulse wave signal output from an output end of the first driving IC, to determine to output either a high level pulse voltage signal or a low voltage direct-current signal to the controller for processing. The controller will output a control-gate-on or a control-gate-off signal to the first and second driving ICs for enabling the first and second coils to continue to operate or to stop operating.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7558074Abstract: A partitioning device for holding slots of a host computer case, including: a host computer outer case provided with a horizontal upper panel; an upper cover; more than one rectangular partition; vertical connecting holes are defined in an upper side of each of the rectangular partitions, which provide for vertical penetration into the holding slot; bolts bolt into the through holes and into the vertically connecting holes, thereby fixing the partitions within the holding slot, thus partitioning the holding slot and forming at least more than two holding spaces, thereby achieving control of the number and size of the more than two holding spaces so as to accommodate he insertion of modular cases of various size specifications.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
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Patent number: 7545641Abstract: A computer housing shock absorber device for a vibration source frame, which includes: a computer housing provided with a U-shaped holding space; an inner fixing frame fixed within the U-shaped holding space; an outer fixing frame; The shock absorber elements mounted on circumferential edge walls of the connecting holes of the inner fixing frame. Upper and lower portions of each of the recessed circular grooves of the shock absorber elements are respectively provided with a cylindrical body, and one of the cylindrical bodies of each of the shock absorber elements lies between the upper surface of the outer fixing frame and the upper surface of the inner fixing frame. Accordingly, the vibratory moment on the outer fixing frame produced by rotation of the fans is absorbed by the shock absorber elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.Inventor: Richard Chen