Patents by Inventor Bernard D. Strmiska
Bernard D. Strmiska 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).
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Patent number: 11841750Abstract: A chassis for housing information handling resources of an information handling system may include an enclosure, a plurality of bays formed within the enclosure, each bay of the plurality of bays configured to receive a corresponding modular information handling resource, and a hem comprising a ledge extending from the enclosure and running proximate to at least a portion of the plurality of bays. The hem may have formed therein a recess sized and shaped in accordance with physical dimensions of an interchangeable labeling strip and a plurality of retention features, each retention feature configured to receive a corresponding engagement feature of the interchangeable labeling strip, in order to retain the interchangeable labeling strip within the recess.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Bernard D. Strmiska, Eduardo Escamilla, Matthew B. Gilbert, Richard Crisp
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Patent number: 11606887Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 11570926Abstract: A latch to secure an access panel at an enclosure may include a shuttle component including a latch pin. The latch pin is configured to engage with a corresponding receptacle at the enclosure. A spring retracts the latch pin to within the access panel when the access panel is not positioned for installation at the enclosure, and permits the latch pin to protrude from the access panel to mate with the receptacle in response to magnetic attraction by a magnet positioned within the receptacle when the access panel is positioned for installation at the enclosure. The magnetic attraction of the magnet to the latch pin overcomes the force of the spring to retract the latch pin.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Richard A. Crisp, Bernard D. Strmiska, Brad Philip Collins, Peter Kaltenbach
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Publication number: 20230017214Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Publication number: 20220326742Abstract: A chassis for housing information handling resources of an information handling system may include an enclosure, a plurality of bays formed within the enclosure, each bay of the plurality of bays configured to receive a corresponding modular information handling resource, and a hem comprising a ledge extending from the enclosure and running proximate to at least a portion of the plurality of bays. The hem may have formed therein a recess sized and shaped in accordance with physical dimensions of an interchangeable labeling strip and a plurality of retention features, each retention feature configured to receive a corresponding engagement feature of the interchangeable labeling strip, in order to retain the interchangeable labeling strip within the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Bernard D. STRMISKA, Eduardo ESCAMILLA, Matthew B. GILBERT, Richard CRISP
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Patent number: 11396925Abstract: A cable assembly may include a cable communicatively coupling a first information handling resource to a second information handling resource and a cable chain for guiding a routing of the cable, the cable chain comprising a plurality of cable chain links. Each cable chain link may include a plurality of coupling features for rotatably coupling, about an axis, such cable chain link to another cable chain link, one or more limiting features for limiting a rotation of such cable chain link to the other cable chain link, and an opening formed in such cable chain link and configured such that the cable chain has a lengthwise opening along one side of the cable chain which forms a channel for receiving the cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Megan Wingfield, Bernard D. Strmiska, Robert B. Curtis, Destin Ray, Matthew Parmlee, Elliot Le, Henry Gomez, William Beck
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Publication number: 20220159861Abstract: A latch to secure an access panel at an enclosure may include a shuttle component including a latch pin. The latch pin is configured to engage with a corresponding receptacle at the enclosure. A spring retracts the latch pin to within the access panel when the access panel is not positioned for installation at the enclosure, and permits the latch pin to protrude from the access panel to mate with the receptacle in response to magnetic attraction by a magnet positioned within the receptacle when the access panel is positioned for installation at the enclosure. The magnetic attraction of the magnet to the latch pin overcomes the force of the spring to retract the latch pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Richard A. Crisp, Bernard D. Strmiska, Brad Philip Collins, Peter Kaltenbach
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Publication number: 20210246967Abstract: A cable assembly may include a cable communicatively coupling a first information handling resource to a second information handling resource and a cable chain for guiding a routing of the cable, the cable chain comprising a plurality of cable chain links. Each cable chain link may include a plurality of coupling features for rotatably coupling, about an axis, such cable chain link to another cable chain link, one or more limiting features for limiting a rotation of such cable chain link to the other cable chain link, and an opening formed in such cable chain link and configured such that the cable chain has a lengthwise opening along one side of the cable chain which forms a channel for receiving the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Megan WINGFIELD, Bernard D. STRMISKA, Robert B. CURTIS, Destin RAY, Matthew PARMLEE, Elliot LE, Henry GOMEZ, William BECK
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Patent number: 11003613Abstract: An Open Compute Project (OCP) module forces an electrical shutdown sequence. The OCP module integrates an eject pull mechanism that has two (2) positions. A retracted position of the two (2) positions is inaccessible from an exterior of an information handling system. A deployed position of the two (2) positions is only accessible from an interior of the information handling system. The eject pull mechanism forces the electrical shutdown sequence prior to moving or transitioning from the retracted position to the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Publication number: 20210089485Abstract: An Open Compute Project (OCP) module forces an electrical shutdown sequence. The OCP module integrates an eject pull mechanism that has two (2) positions. A retracted position of the two (2) positions is inaccessible from an exterior of an information handling system. A deployed position of the two (2) positions is only accessible from an interior of the information handling system. The eject pull mechanism forces the electrical shutdown sequence prior to moving or transitioning from the retracted position to the deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 10198047Abstract: An information handling system includes an electrical connector to mate with terminals of a data storage device. The system further includes a temperature sensor integrated at the electrical connector. The temperature sensor is arranged to thermally couple to an exterior surface of the data storage device when the data storage device is fully inserted into the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Robert B. Curtis, Chris E. Peterson, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 9927850Abstract: A component carrier may include a carrier front wall and a plurality of carrier side walls extending in a substantially parallel orientation to each other from opposite edges of the chassis front wall, and defining a component channel between them. The carrier side walls may include respective guide flanges extending substantially perpendicularly therefrom such that the guide flanges are in a substantially parallel orientation to each other and the guide flanges are oriented relative to the remainder of the component carrier such that when a component is mounted within the component channel to the component carrier, and the guide flanges may define a plane whereby a combined mass on a first side of the plane of the component carrier and the component is approximately equal to a combined mass on a second side of the component carrier and the component.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Haesung Kwon, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 9893465Abstract: A sliding latch release mechanism for a latched cable connector. The sliding latch release mechanism includes a fixed portion which is configured to fit securely around a latched cable connector, the latched cable connector having a latch release mechanism. The sliding latch release further includes a slideable portion which is housed within the fixed portion and is configured to move within a slot on the fixed portion. When slid back and forth, the slideable portion of the latch release mechanism engages the latch of the latched cable connector and releases the latch so the latched cable may be unplugged.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Salvador D. Jimenez, III, Corey Dean Hartman, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Publication number: 20170269644Abstract: A component carrier may include a carrier front wall and a plurality of carrier side walls extending in a substantially parallel orientation to each other from opposite edges of the chassis front wall, and defining a component channel between them. The carrier side walls may include respective guide flanges extending substantially perpendicularly therefrom such that the guide flanges are in a substantially parallel orientation to each other and the guide flanges are oriented relative to the remainder of the component carrier such that when a component is mounted within the component channel to the component carrier, and the guide flanges may define a plane whereby a combined mass on a first side of the plane of the component carrier and the component is approximately equal to a combined mass on a second side of the component carrier and the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Haesung Kwon, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Publication number: 20170229814Abstract: A sliding latch release mechanism for a latched cable connector. The sliding latch release mechanism includes a fixed portion which is configured to fit securely around a latched cable connector, the latched cable connector having a latch release mechanism. The sliding latch release further includes a slideable portion which is housed within the fixed portion and is configured to move within a slot on the fixed portion. When slid back and forth, the slideable portion of the latch release mechanism engages the latch of the latched cable connecter and releases the latch so the latched cable may be unplugged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Salvador D. Jimenez, III, Corey Dean Hartman, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 9706675Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a structural base, a handle mechanically coupled to the structural base, and a cam element mechanically coupled to the handle. The handle may be configured to translate between an open position and a closed position and vice versa relative to the structural base. The cam element may be configured to mechanically couple to a retention structure for retaining the system when the handle is in the closed position and during at least a portion of the translation of the handle, move at least partially in a direction opposite to that of the handle in response to translation of the handle.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Corey Dean Hartman, Russell C. Smith, Bernard D. Strmiska, Andrew Lafayette McAnally
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Publication number: 20170147047Abstract: An information handling system includes an electrical connector to mate with terminals of a data storage device. The system further includes a temperature sensor integrated at the electrical connector. The temperature sensor is arranged to thermally couple to an exterior surface of the data storage device when the data storage device is fully inserted into the electrical connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Robert B. Curtis, Chris E. Peterson, Bernard D. Strmiska
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Patent number: 9483089Abstract: An information handling system includes a server rack chassis, an adaptor assembly, and second and third servers. The server rack chassis includes a bay adapted to receive a first server that has a height that is substantially equal to a height of the bay. The adaptor assembly is inserted within the bay and includes first, second, third, and fourth slots to receive servers. The adaptor assembly is substantially the same size and dimension as the first server. The second server is inserted within the first slot of the adaptor assembly, and includes a first communication fabric. The height of the second server is substantially equal to a quarter of the height of the bay. The third server is inserted within the second slot of the adaptor assembly, and includes a second communication fabric. The height of the third server is substantially equal to a quarter of the height of the bay.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LPInventors: Jean Doglio, Bernard D. Strmiska, Brandon J. Brockelsby, Laurent A. Regimbal, Sandor Farkas, Shawn P. Hoss, Vibora Sim
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Publication number: 20160064040Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a structural base, a handle mechanically coupled to the structural base, and a cam element mechanically coupled to the handle. The handle may be configured to translate between an open position and a closed position and vice versa relative to the structural base. The cam element may be configured to mechanically couple to a retention structure for retaining the system when the handle is in the closed position and during at least a portion of the translation of the handle, move at least partially in a direction opposite to that of the handle in response to translation of the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Corey Dean Hartman, Russell C. Smith, Bernard D. Strmiska, Andrew Lafayette McAnally
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Patent number: D783623Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Richard A. Crisp, Bernard D. Strmiska, Mark Gilson, Jared Mockler, Reut Kovetz