Patents by Inventor Edward D. Geist
Edward D. Geist 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: 11894024Abstract: An information handling system storage bay accepts 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch storage drives held in a storage drive carrier sized to hold 3.5 inch storage drives and having an adapter that couples to the storage drive carrier to adapt it to hold 2.5 inch drives. The storage drive carrier is manufactured as a contiguous piece from a mold with hard plastic to integrate the adapter so that the adapter breaks free to couple to the storage drive carrier when a small size drive is to be held. Snaps in the contiguous piece couple with the adapter after the adapter is broken free to store the adapter when a larger sized drive is held by the storage drive carrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Edward D. Geist, Jing-Tang Wu
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Publication number: 20230130498Abstract: An information handling system storage bay accepts 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch storage drives held in a storage drive carrier sized to hold 3.5 inch storage drives and having an adapter that couples to the storage drive carrier to adapt it to hold 2.5 inch drives. The storage drive carrier is manufactured as a contiguous piece from a mold with hard plastic to integrate the adapter so that the adapter breaks free to couple to the storage drive carrier when a small size drive is to be held. Snaps in the contiguous piece couple with the adapter after the adapter is broken free to store the adapter when a larger sized drive is held by the storage drive carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Edward D. Geist, Jing-Tang Wu
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Patent number: 10244661Abstract: A data processing system includes an enclosure, one or more airflow manifold structures within the enclosure, and a plurality of data processor cards mounted within the enclosure. Each one of the one or more airflow manifold structures has an air inlet portion and an air outlet portion. Each one of the data processor cards extends substantially parallel to each other one of the data processor cards. Each one of the data processor cards includes an airflow duct having an air inlet portion thereof covering a portion of the air outlet portion of at least one of the one or more airflow manifold structures and includes a plurality of data processing units within the airflow duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLCInventors: Walter Denton Scott, Jeffrey Carl Defilippi, David James Borland, Stephan Leonidas Beatty, Edward D. Geist
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Patent number: 10095282Abstract: A processor can be damaged by a heat sink. If the heat sink is improperly installed, the heat sink may damage the processor and/or the motherboard. Sequential tightening of mechanical fasteners is thus recommended, but the sequential tightening is challenging to implement. Sequential tightening of fasteners helps reduce damage to a processor. When a heat sink is fastened over the processor to a motherboard, mechanical fasteners are tightened in a sequence to reduce damage to the processor. To ensure sequential tightening of the mechanical fasteners, the heat sink is first secured with only two of the mechanical fasteners preinstalled in two of four holes in the heat sink and sequentially tightened into a bolster plate on a bottom side of the motherboard. A cover is then installed over the heat sink, and the cover has two mechanical fasteners that align with a remaining two of the four holes in the heat sink. A remaining two of the mechanical fasteners may then be sequentially tightened into the bolster plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Andrew O. Ingalls, Neda Abdul-Razzak, Edward D. Geist
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Publication number: 20170371384Abstract: A processor can be damaged by a heat sink. If the heat sink is improperly installed, the heat sink may damage the processor and/or the motherboard. Sequential tightening of mechanical fasteners is thus recommended, but the sequential tightening is challenging to implement. Sequential tightening of fasteners helps reduce damage to a processor. When a heat sink is fastened over the processor to a motherboard, mechanical fasteners are tightened in a sequence to reduce damage to the processor. To ensure sequential tightening of the mechanical fasteners, the heat sink is first secured with only two of the mechanical fasteners preinstalled in two of four holes in the heat sink and sequentially tightened into a bolster plate on a bottom side of the motherboard. A cover is then installed over the heat sink, and the cover has two mechanical fasteners that align with a remaining two of the four holes in the heat sink. A remaining two of the mechanical fasteners may then be sequentially tightened into the bolster plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Andrew O. Ingalls, Neda Abdul-Razzak, Edward D. Geist
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Publication number: 20140177168Abstract: A data processing system includes an enclosure, one or more airflow manifold structures within the enclosure, and a plurality of data processor cards mounted within the enclosure. Each one of the one or more airflow manifold structures has an air inlet portion and an air outlet portion. Each one of the data processor cards extends substantially parallel to each other one of the data processor cards. Each one of the data processor cards includes an airflow duct having an air inlet portion thereof covering a portion of the air outlet portion of at least one of the one or more airflow manifold structures and includes a plurality of data processing units within the airflow duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CALXEDA, INC.Inventors: Walter Denton Scott, Jeffrey Carl Defilippi, David James Borland, Stephan Leonidas Beatty, Edward D. Geist
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Patent number: 6802108Abstract: A detachable carry handle assembly contains a first segment and a second segment that are telescopically interfitted with one another. Sliding of the respective segments relative to one another selectively increases or decreases the overall length of the carry handle assembly, which may be manually manipulated into a plurality of overall length configurations. A spring biased barrel lock assembly may be used to fix the carry handle assembly into a predetermined overall length. The carry handle assemblies may contain rotating handles that to rotate out to a position of maximum width that facilitates lifting operations. Collapse of the handles to a position of minimum width facilitates stowage of the carry handle assemblies in a minimum space.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2003Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jeffrey Todd Haselby, Eric Peterson, Edward D. Geist
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Publication number: 20040135479Abstract: A detachable carry handle assembly contains a first segment and a second segment that are telescopically interfitted with one another. Sliding of the respective segments relative to one another selectively increases or decreases the overall length of the carry handle assembly, which may be manually manipulated into a plurality of overall length configurations. A spring biased barrel lock assembly may be used to fix the carry handle assembly into a predetermined overall length. The carry handle assemblies may contain rotating handles that to rotate out to a position of maximum width that facilitates lifting operations. Collapse of the handles to a position of minimum width facilitates stowage of the carry handle assemblies in a minimum space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Jeffrey Todd Haselby, Eric Peterson, Edward D. Geist
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Patent number: 5077722Abstract: An interlock for a disk drive unit having a handle and a camming arrangement responsive to pivotal movements for inserting and withdrawing the unit from a housing fixture. A solenoid is actuable to lock the handle when the unit is fully inserted. A sensor is adapted for sensing an interlock engagement between the solenoid armature and the handle. For removing the disk drive unit, a delay is interposed before retracting the solenoid armature to assure that the disk drive unit is fully stopped before the handle can be rotated for removal of the unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1989Date of Patent: December 31, 1991Assignee: Convex Computer CorporationInventors: Edward D. Geist, Arthur T. Kimmel, Gregory G. Schober, Trenton A. Ames, David B. Matthews, John W. Clark
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Patent number: D814461Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Antonio T. Latto, Andrew O. Ingalls, Joseph E. Jasinki, Edward D. Geist, Arnold T. Schnell, Nick Poteracki, Matthew C. Grossman, Daniel A. Phipps