Patents Assigned to Super Micro Computer
  • Patent number: 11245644
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Sahul Hameed Abdul Kader Jailani
  • Publication number: 20220007501
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Manhtien V. PHAN, Mau-Lin CHOU, Chih-Hao LEE
  • Patent number: 11178792
    Abstract: 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 intakes. The heat dissipation pipes are disposed in the second cabinet body and include multiple upper nozzles and multiple lower nozzles. Multiple heat dissipation channels are disposed between the heat dissipation pipes. The external fan is disposed on a bottom inside the second cabinet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Wei Chen, Tienen Chao
  • Patent number: 11166367
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Manhtien V. Phan, Mau-Lin Chou, Chih-Hao Lee
  • Publication number: 20210235577
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Manhtien V. PHAN, Mau-Lin CHOU, Chih-Hao LEE
  • Publication number: 20210235578
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Manhtien V. PHAN, Mau-Lin CHOU, Chih-Hao LEE
  • Patent number: 10957361
    Abstract: A storage device tray has a form factor designed to support a larger storage device, and is configured to secure a small storage device, thereby acting as an adapter between storage device sizes. The storage device tray includes a sliding mechanism configured with pegs that may couple to screw holes in the storage device. The sliding mechanism also exerts a force against the storage device to secure that storage device, and may be locked to further secure that storage device. At least one advantage of this approach is that a storage device can be coupled to a storage device tray without using screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Chen, Lawrence H. Liang, Che-ming Yang
  • Patent number: 10849220
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Manhtien V. Phan, Mau-Lin Chou, Chih-Hao Lee
  • Patent number: 10827641
    Abstract: A server apparatus with a horizontal push-pull operating structure includes a chassis having a base plate and chassis plates with guiding slots; a carrying tray on the base plate and inserted into the chassis plates, the carrying tray having carrying board and side boards having sliding slots formed corresponding to the guiding slots; and an operating structure having a moving arm with a gear rack thereon and a gear sector clamped between the moving arm and the side board and having an addendum engaged with the gear rack and a sliding column inserted into the sliding and guiding slots. When the moving arm is horizontally pushed/pulled relative to the side boards, the gear rack drives the gear sector to rotate, and the sliding column moves inside the sliding slot and drives the carrying tray to move in/out of the base plate respectively under guidance of the guiding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventor: William Shen
  • Publication number: 20200344269
    Abstract: 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 BMC-connected switch ports are monitored and controlled in various ways to further protect the BMC's from security attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Sahul Hameed Abdul Kader JAILANI
  • Publication number: 20200097054
    Abstract: A solid state drive (SSD) storage bay includes storage trays and connector cards. A storage tray has a an interposer and an SSD module. A connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of the SSD module, and another connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of a connector card. The connector card includes terminals that connect to a bus of a computer system. The interposer includes wirings that allow electrical signals to propagate between the two connectors of the interposer. The interposer includes circuitry that allow for voltage regulation of supply voltage, level shifting, and hot-swapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Te-Chang LIN, Lawrence LAM, Thompson TANG
  • Patent number: 10025714
    Abstract: A computer system includes a dual in-line memory module (DIMM), such as a registered DIMM (RDIMM), and a non-volatile DIMM (NVDIMM). A central processing unit (CPU) of the computer system has internal cache memory locations for caching data for the DIMM and NVDIMM. A memory type range register (MTTR) of the CPU is set for write-back cache strategy for a range of memory locations in the DIMM and NVDIMM. The computer system includes a power supply that, in the event of a power failure, triggers a hardware non-maskable interrupt (NMI) and sustains power to the CPU to allow cached data to be saved to non-volatile memory locations in the NVDIMM before the computer system completely powers down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Han, John Chen, Jason Chang
  • Patent number: 9626326
    Abstract: A data storage expanding apparatus is electrically coupled to a terminal equipment and multiple data storage groups. Each data storage group includes a plurality of data storage devices. The data storage expanding apparatus configured to transmit an operating data between the terminal equipment and to a particular data storage device. The data storage expanding apparatus includes a data storage expanding module and multiple signal expanding modules. The data storage expanding module is electrically coupled to the terminal equipment. The signal expanding modules are electrically coupled in series, and to the data storage groups, respectively. One of the signal expanding modules is electrically coupled to the data storage expanding module. The operating data signal is transmitted to the signal expanding module via the data storage expanding module electrically connected to the signal expanding module, and then transmitted to particular data storage device via the signal expanding module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. Chen, Lawrence H. Liang, Lawrence K. W. Lam, Shen Ping
  • Publication number: 20150181768
    Abstract: A server system utilizing a backplane structure comprises first and second hard disk modules; a first backplane comprising a first wiring board comprising air vents and passive components and a second wiring board connected to a bottom portion of the first wiring board at a first angle and comprising first active components; and a second backplane comprising a third wiring board comprising second air vents and second passive components and a fourth wiring board connected to a bottom portion of the third wiring board at a second angle and comprising second active components thereon; wherein the first and second backplanes are disposed between the first and second hard disk modules; the first wiring board is directly corresponding to the first hard disk module; the third wiring board is directly corresponding to the second hard disk module; the first backplane is higher than the second backplane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. CHEN, Lawrence H. LIANG, Lawrence K.W. LAM, Shen PING
  • Publication number: 20150163964
    Abstract: A storage device backplane with penetrating convection and a computer framework with the storage device backplane are disclosed. The storage device backplane includes an integration board, an operation board and a heat dissipation unit. The integration board has a first surface for electrically connecting the storage device group. The operation board is superposed on and electrically connected to a second surface of the integration board and is provided that the operation board includes an electronic heating active element (EHAE) and an airflow hole set around the EHAE. The heat dissipation unit includes a heat absorb portion and multiple fins set on the heat absorb portion. The heat absorb portion makes a thermal contact with the EHAE. The fins laterally extend to cover the airflow hole. Airflow passages are formed between the fins corresponding to the airflow hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence K.W. LAM, Ruei-Fu WENG, Thompson Cheuk-Wai TANG, Richard S. CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150126048
    Abstract: A data storage connecting device includes a circuit board, a first connector, a second connector and a third connector. The circuit board has a first connecting end and a second connecting end. The first connector and a second connector are both disposed on the first connecting end and respectively at two sides of a long axis of the circuit board, a location of the second connector connecting with a data storage device being opposite to that of the first connector connecting with another data storage device. The third connector is disposed on the second connecting end for transmitting data from two data storage devices connected to the first connector and the second connector, respectively, via the circuit to a server device, or vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Richard S. CHEN, Lawrence H. LIANG, Lawrence K.W. LAM, Shen PING
  • Patent number: 8922987
    Abstract: A server structure with a swappable tray includes a chassis housing, two power supply devices and a plurality of motherboard trays, and the chassis housing has two parallel motherboard areas, and each motherboard area has a power slot formed at a rear section and a plurality of tray slots at a front section, and each power slot is formed at the same position of each motherboard area, and each power supply device is plugged into each respective power slot, and each motherboard tray is in the same shape and has a motherboard, and each motherboard tray has an opening and a storage unit set installed through the opening, and each motherboard tray can be swapped and plugged into any one of the tray slots. Therefore, the motherboard tray can be installed freely at any position according to the using requirement, so as to improve the overall functionality and convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Te-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 8747064
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Ku-Yang Chou, Richard S. Chen
  • Publication number: 20140082393
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicants: Super Micro Computer Inc., Compuware Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Chien-Ta Liang
  • Patent number: 8315059
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Te-Chang Lin