Patents Examined by Christopher L Augustin
  • Patent number: 11706892
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for loading an electronic device, e.g., a populated GPU board, onto a device tray, e.g., a GPU tray, where the electronic device is cumbersome and the device tray presents obstacles that prevent simply lowering the device into the tray. The apparatus includes a dolly and a base, the base configured to position the dolly against the device tray so that the dolly, carrying the board, may slide the device into position and then be removed from beneath the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.
    Inventors: David Liang, Jun Lu
  • Patent number: 11703919
    Abstract: Provided is an expansion card installation module including an expansion-card bracket, an operating element, a stopper, and a driving component. The operating element is pivoted on the expansion-card bracket. The stopper is slidably disposed on the expansion-card bracket and is located at a stop position or a non-stop position. The stopper at the stop position is adapted to stop an expansion card in the expansion-card bracket, and the stopper at the non-stop position releases the expansion card, such that the expansion card is allowed to be removed from the expansion-card bracket. The driving component is movably disposed on the expansion-card bracket. The operating element is adapted to push against the stopper to move the stopper from the stop position to the non-stop position, and the driving component is adapted to position the stopper at the non-stop position. A server is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Yong-Qing Zhong
  • Patent number: 11700700
    Abstract: A latching apparatus has a first component and a second component. The first component is made of a first material and includes a distal end, a proximal end, and an indention between the distal end the proximal end. The distal end includes a mating tab, whereas the proximal end includes a flange member for fixing the first component to a lid of a housing. The second component is made of a second material and is coupled to the mating tab. The second component includes a receiving element for engaging with a securing element of the housing. The latching element includes a pressing region formed in one of the first component and the second component between the indention and the receiving element. The first material has a higher flexibility that the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Hou-Hsien Chang
  • Patent number: 11683896
    Abstract: A combination mounting bracket for an information handling system includes a main bracket and an adjustable bracket. The main bracket is securely mounted on a display device of the information handling system. The adjustable bracket includes a mounting surface and multiple standoffs. The mounting surface is configured to be placed in physical communication with a stand for the display device. The standoffs are in physical communication with the mounting surface and with the main bracket. The standoffs are configured to transition between an extended position and a compressed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chung-An Lin, Yi-Change Yeh, Yan-Zih Chen
  • Patent number: 11683898
    Abstract: A fiber optic node includes an electronics equipment enclosure. The electronics equipment enclosure includes a lid and a base defining an overall interior space of the electronics equipment enclosure. The lid includes a lid top and a lid mating surface to contact and overlap a base mating surface of the base to close the electronics equipment enclosure. The lid further includes at least one lid side wall extending away from the lid top. The at least one lid side wall includes at least one protruding lid side wall extending outwards to project beyond the lid mating surface. The base includes a base bottom and at least one base side wall extending away from the base bottom. The base further includes a base mating surface to contact and overlap the lid mating surface of the lid to close the electronics equipment enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Ayham Al-Banna
  • Patent number: 11678457
    Abstract: A module is retained in a slot of an electronics chassis. A clearance space is provided for receiving the module in a slot of the electronics chassis by controlling an internal pressure of a bellows. The bellows forms a part of a retainer that is disposed on an elongated rail extending along a length of the slot. The bellows defines an internal bellows capsule which contains a fluid. Once the module has been inserted in the slot, the module is secured with the retainer by further controlling the internal pressure of the bellows to exert a force on the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC, SENIOR OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Clarke O. Fowler, Patrick Bradley Reed
  • Patent number: 11665840
    Abstract: A server information handling system couples to a rack and is secured with a security device coupled to one side of the information handling system housing clear of the front side of the information handling system so that the entire front side of the housing is available for venting and/or interface devices like a power switch and ports. The security device has a latch that moves vertically in response to an outward and upward pull on a lever engaged with the latch. The latch secures and releases the housing to the server rack, such as at the rail holding the housing in the rack, and releases a pin from a slot of a bezel that covers a front face of the server information handling system. The pin moves vertically in a channel of the latch and is biased to a locked position so that insertion of the server bezel onto the housing will lock the bezel with the pin while the lever remains in a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard W. Guzman, Richard A. Crisp, Jean M. Doglio, Peter Clark, Kevin Keller
  • Patent number: 11659680
    Abstract: A suspendable assembly for fixing and holding a server includes a housing, a torsion spring, a limiting frame, a handle, and a shaft. The housing includes a first through hole. The torsion spring is fixed on the housing. The limiting frame clamps the torsion spring. The handle is fixed with the limiting frame, the handle comprising a first hook. The shaft penetrates through the housing, the torsion spring, the handle, and the limiting frame. The first hook is configured to engaged with a second hook to limit the suspendable assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Hu Lu, Li-Yi Yin, Shu-Tong Wang
  • Patent number: 11647603
    Abstract: A server containing hard disk modules which can be slid into place and which allow connection at the front and at the rear of a housing. The server includes the housing which defines an opening, the hard disk modules, and a plurality of trays. Receiving channels communicating with the opening are defined in the housing, the receiving channels are isolated and arranged side by side and each channel can receive one tray. A hard disk module is positioned in one tray, a front end and a rear end of the housing defines front connection port and rear connection port for cable connections to each hard disk module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-Yu Li, Wen-Hu Lu, Shu-Tong Wang, Li-Yi Yin, Gong-Wen Zhang, Yang Li, San-Long Zhou
  • Patent number: 11641722
    Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors operable with the one or more sensors, one or more extendable gripping feet, and an actuation engine operable to extend and retract the one or more extendable gripping feet. The one or more sensors detect a condition of the electronic device and, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the condition, the one or more processors cause the actuation engine to transition the one or more extendable gripping feet from a retracted position to an extended position where the one or more extendable gripping feet extend distally away from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Gary D Cudak, John S Crowe, Jennifer J Lee-Baron, Nathan J Peterson
  • Patent number: 11638360
    Abstract: An orientation-adjustment mechanism is provided, which is adapted to be affixed to a mounting surface. The orientation-adjustment mechanism includes a base, a rod, a joint unit, and a mounted member. The base is adapted to be affixed to the mounting surface. The rod includes a first section and a second section. The first section of the rod pivots on the base. The joint unit is disposed on the second section of the rod. The joint unit includes a plurality of joint-positioning portions. The joint-positioning portions include a first joint-positioning portion and a second joint-positioning portion. The mounted member is connected to the joint unit and is adapted to be rotated relative to the joint unit. The mounted member includes a member housing. The member housing includes at least one member-positioning portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Lan-Chun Yang, Chun-Hung Huang, Li-Han Hsu, Yi-Chieh Lin
  • Patent number: 11627672
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a PCB on which a plurality of LEDs emitting light in a first direction are mounted, a frame configured to support the PCB, and a chassis coupled to the frame. The frame has a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction that is longer than that of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yeob Lee, Byung Chul Kim, Seung Ryong Han
  • Patent number: 11612075
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer case with I/O panels on opposite sides of the case, and a method for providing the case. The case includes a top, a bottom, a back side that is opposite a front side, and a right side that is opposite a left side. The case also includes a front I/O opening formed in the front side that receives a front I/O panel. The computer case also includes a rear I/O opening in the back side that receives a rear I/O panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SIMPLY NUC, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Rowsell, John Woellner, Charles B. Abdouch
  • Patent number: 11606887
    Abstract: A drive carrier for retaining a persistent storage drive in an enclosure. The drive carrier includes a mounting bracket, a handle coupled to the mounting bracket, and an electromagnetic interference (“EMI”) shielding apparatus disposed between mounting bracket and at least a portion of the handle. The mounting bracket is shaped to be coupled to the persistent storage drive. The EMI-shielding apparatus includes a plurality of EMI-shielding fingers. Each EMI-shielding finger includes a lower surface, an upper surface that is approximately parallel to the lower surface, and a contoured surface extending between the lower surface and the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Bernard D. Strmiska
  • Patent number: 11606866
    Abstract: An electronic device with a storage function is provided. The electronic device includes a main connection bolt and a housing. The housing includes a first housing member and a second housing member. The first housing member includes two hooks and a fastening portion. The second housing member includes two wedging portions and a fastening base. The hooks are wedged into the wedging portions to restrict the freedom of the first housing member to move relative to the second housing member in a first direction. The main connection bolt connects the fastening portion to the fastening base in a second direction to restrict the freedom of the first housing member to move relative to the second housing member in the first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHANNON SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Jiangshan Li
  • Patent number: 11599157
    Abstract: A hinge module is provided, including a positioning assembly, a first shaft, a second shaft, a first bracket, a second bracket, and a switching assembly. The first shaft has a first rotating part and a first installing part. The first rotating part is rotatably disposed through the positioning assembly. The second shaft has a second rotating part and a second installing part. The second rotating part is rotatably disposed through the positioning assembly. The first bracket is disposed on the first installing part of the first shaft. The second bracket is disposed on the second installing part of the second shaft. The switching assembly is movably disposed in the positioning assembly and abuts between the first shaft and the second shaft. The hinge module is adapted to switch between a closed state, a first unfolded state, and a second unfolded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Shiue Jan, Jyh-Chyang Tzou, I Ta Tsai, Meng Ju Wu
  • Patent number: 11602068
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for removably coupling a tray bracket to a cable holder of an information handling system includes: receiving, by an open slot of a lock ring receiver of the cable holder, a closed end of a lock ring of the tray bracket, the lock ring receiver disposed on a surface of the cable holder, the closed end of the lock ring removably coupled to the lock ring receiver; applying, by two or more guiding structures of a lock ring neck receptacle of the cable holder, a compression force on a neck of the lock ring; and causing, by the compression force, the neck of the lock ring to be received by a recessed area of the lock ring neck receptable to removably couple the tray bracket to the cable holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tung Yu Chien, Chi-Chang Fu
  • Patent number: 11602070
    Abstract: An upper portion of an aisle containment system for a data center. The upper portion includes spaced vertical supports aligned in two parallel rows and horizontal supports that extend between and are connected to adjacent vertical supports to form the basic framework of the upper portion. The upper portion also includes (1) at least one pair of arms that extend outwardly from opposite longitudinal sides of the basic framework and are configured to support services and (2) at least one busbar casement that is attached to the vertical supports and extends substantially the length of the upper portion. Each arm of the at least one pair of arms includes a segment that is rotatable between a first position in which the segment is substantially parallel to the vertical supports and a second position in which the segment is substantially perpendicular to the vertical supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TATE ACCESS FLOORS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Brent Kennedy, Gwen Demosky, Benjamin Lee Steinberg, Brian Prats
  • Patent number: 11588929
    Abstract: An optical element (100c), a mobile phone cover plate covering the optical element (100c) and a mold for manufacturing the optical element (100c). The optical element (100c) comprises: plural texture patterns (1c), at least one of the plural texture patterns (1c) having a concave structure or a convex structure, the at least one texture pattern (1c) containing at least one sub-texture pattern unit (11c, 12c), wherein the at least one texture pattern (1c) is of a curved shape. Hence, the texture patterns may produce a light shadow effect, which have a good visual effect, and when they are applied in the field of decoration, they are able to enhance a decoration effect, and make the decoration rich in visual senses and pictures vivid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shine Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shen Hong, Yulong Gao, Hongwei Kang, Su Shen
  • Patent number: 11582878
    Abstract: A visual display stand is shown and described. The display stand comprises a thin aluminum member that slopes downward and away from a display to which it is attached to a horizontal base section that rests on a support surface. The horizontal base is spaced apart from the screen in a direction away from the rear of the display. A rear support member is also provided but is concealed from view when looking at the screen side of the display. As a result, when the stand is attached to display and viewed from the front, it gives a gravity defying appearance because it appears that the weight of the monitor should cause the stand to tip over. Alternatively, the second member may be removed, and the display may rest against a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Vizio, Inc.
    Inventors: Glen Gihong Kim, Aung Khin Soe Win, William Wei Wang