Patents by Inventor Alva Benjamin Eaton

Alva Benjamin Eaton 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: 10874027
    Abstract: Equipment racks, methods of installing equipment modules into equipment racks, and adaptor blocks for installing equipment modules into equipment racks are disclosed. In some examples, an equipment rack includes first and second rack rails and a carrier pack mounted to the first and second rack rails. The carrier pack includes first and second pack rails, each pack rail having a plurality of spaced apart mounting holes. The carrier pack includes first and second adapter blocks mounted to the first and second pack rails using the spaced apart mounting holes. Each of the first and second adapter blocks includes at least one post. The carrier pack includes an equipment module mounted to the first and second adapter blocks. The equipment module includes first and second spring loaded latches attached to the posts of the first and second adapter blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton
  • Patent number: 10849254
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for thermal management provide conditioned air from an inlet of an electronics cabinet to a rear-mounted interface device using an enclosure mounted in the electronics cabinet. The enclosure is laterally expandable in order to make installation easier and to enable installation of the enclosure between electronics cabinets of several mounting widths. The enclosure is installed to an internal surface of the mounting rails of the electronics cabinet so that the interface devices are mounted directly to the mounting rails, so the enclosure does not support the mass of the interface devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton, Michael Hladick, Roger D. Segroves, Mark Donnell
  • Publication number: 20200120833
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for thermal management provide conditioned air from an inlet of an electronics cabinet to a rear-mounted interface device using an enclosure mounted in the electronics cabinet. The enclosure is laterally expandable in order to make installation easier and to enable installation of the enclosure between electronics cabinets of several mounting widths. The enclosure is installed to an internal surface of the mounting rails of the electronics cabinet so that the interface devices are mounted directly to the mounting rails, so the enclosure does not support the mass of the interface devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton, Michael Hladick, Roger D. Segroves, Mark Donnell
  • Publication number: 20200107465
    Abstract: Equipment racks, methods of installing equipment modules into equipment racks, and adaptor blocks for installing equipment modules into equipment racks are disclosed. In some examples, an equipment rack includes first and second rack rails and a carrier pack mounted to the first and second rack rails. The carrier pack includes first and second pack rails, each pack rail having a plurality of spaced apart mounting holes. The carrier pack includes first and second adapter blocks mounted to the first and second pack rails using the spaced apart mounting holes. Each of the first and second adapter blocks includes at least one post. The carrier pack includes an equipment module mounted to the first and second adapter blocks. The equipment module includes first and second spring loaded latches attached to the posts of the first and second adapter blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton
  • Patent number: 10512194
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for thermal management provide conditioned air from an inlet of an electronics cabinet to a rear-mounted interface device using an enclosure mounted in the electronics cabinet. The enclosure is laterally expandable in order to make installation easier and to enable installation of the enclosure between electronics cabinets of several mounting widths. The enclosure is installed to an internal surface of the mounting rails of the electronics cabinet so that the interface devices are mounted directly to the mounting rails, so the enclosure does not support the mass of the interface devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton, Michael Hladick, Roger D. Segroves, Mark Donnell
  • Patent number: 10499528
    Abstract: Equipment racks, methods of installing equipment modules into equipment racks, and adaptor blocks for installing equipment modules into equipment racks are disclosed. In some examples, an equipment rack includes first and second rack rails and a carrier pack mounted to the first and second rack rails. The carrier pack includes first and second pack rails, each pack rail having a plurality of spaced apart mounting holes. The carrier pack includes first and second adapter blocks mounted to the first and second pack rails using the spaced apart mounting holes. Each of the first and second adapter blocks includes at least one post. The carrier pack includes an equipment module mounted to the first and second adapter blocks. The equipment module includes first and second spring loaded latches attached to the posts of the first and second adapter blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton
  • Patent number: 10417007
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for utilizing a platform controller device are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes obtaining, by a platform controller device in a computing system cabinet, identification data for each of a plurality of computing system components included in the computing system cabinet. The method further includes acquiring, upon the insertion of a removable memory device into the platform controller device, system configuration profile data that is stored on the removable memory device and includes component configuration data corresponding to each of the plurality of computing system components. The method also includes utilizing the identification data and the component configuration data to configure each of the computing system components in accordance to the system configuration profile data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Lawrence Smith, Alva Benjamin Eaton, Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Nicholas Adams Hansen
  • Publication number: 20190059171
    Abstract: Equipment racks, methods of installing equipment modules into equipment racks, and adaptor blocks for installing equipment modules into equipment racks are disclosed. In some examples, an equipment rack includes first and second rack rails and a carrier pack mounted to the first and second rack rails. The carrier pack includes first and second pack rails, each pack rail having a plurality of spaced apart mounting holes. The carrier pack includes first and second adapter blocks mounted to the first and second pack rails using the spaced apart mounting holes. Each of the first and second adapter blocks includes at least one post. The carrier pack includes an equipment module mounted to the first and second adapter blocks. The equipment module includes first and second spring loaded latches attached to the posts of the first and second adapter blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton
  • Patent number: 9699935
    Abstract: Equipment cradles, rack-mounted equipment systems, and related methods can include rack-mounted equipment, a rack-mounted equipment cabinet for storing the rack-mounted equipment, and at least one equipment cradle installed in the rack-mounted equipment cabinet for supporting the rack-mounted equipment stored therein. The equipment cradle can include telescoping rails including a right rail and a left rail, the telescoping rails being configured to extend between front and rear rails of the equipment cabinet, at least one post disposed on each of front and rear endplates of the telescoping rails, the at least one post being configured to be received by holes disposed in each of the front and rear rails of the equipment cabinet, and at least one cross brace having a first end configured to mount to the left rail and a second end configured to mount to the right rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: VCE IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Maxwell Marrs, Alva Benjamin Eaton