Abstract: A fastener used in a blade server to secure a thermal module and a motherboard to a metal face panel, including a cushion member set between the metal face panel and the motherboard, an elastically compressible and electrically insulative spacer member set between the motherboard and the thermal module, a lock member fastened to the cushion member and the spacer member to lock the motherboard to the metal face panel, a locating member fastening the thermal module to the spacer member, and a spring member mounted on the locating member to keep the thermal module in close contact with a chip at the motherboard. The spacer member automatically adjusts the tightness between the thermal module and the chip at the motherboard, and isolates the digital grounding loop formed in the locating member and the thermal module from the analog grounding loop formed in the lock member and the metal face panel.

Abstract: An ATCA board compatible hard disk mounting structure is disclosed to include a cover fastened to an ATCA board to hold a hard disk, a bracket fixedly fastened to the front side of the cover, a plurality of electric fans mounted in the bracket, an insulative member mounted in between the cover and the bracket to isolate the cover from the bracket, and a face panel fastened to the bracket and fitted into one PMC slot of an I/O face panel of the ATCA board.

Abstract: An ATCA card assembly, which includes a rear transition module mounted on and electrically connected to a circuit board and having an electric connecting portion at one side, a holder frame mounted on the rear transition module to hold multiple hard disk drives in a stack, and an adapter, which has an adapter board affixed to the circuit board and front mounting lugs of the holder frame to secure the holder frame in place, and electrical connectors extending from the adapter board at different elevations and respectively connected to the electric connecting portion of the rear transition module and the hard disk drives.

Abstract: An ATCA locking lever mounting arrangement includes a motherboard blade, which has a face panel with a through hole and a grounding plate with two retaining spring arms, and a locking lever, which is pivoted to a motherboard blade for locking the motherboard blade to the machine case of a server system, having a retaining member for insertion through the through hole of the face panel into engagement with the retaining spring arms of the grounding plate and a protruded bearing portion and an actuating portion at two distal ends for stopping at the outside wall or inside wall of the machine case of the server system to limit the turning angle of the locking lever.

Abstract: A fastener used in a blade server to secure a thermal module and a motherboard to a metal face panel, including a cushion member set between the metal face panel and the motherboard, an elastically compressible and electrically insulative spacer member set between the motherboard and the thermal module, a lock member fastened to the cushion member and the spacer member to lock the motherboard to the metal face panel, a locating member fastening the thermal module to the spacer member, and a spring member mounted on the locating member to keep the thermal module in close contact with a chip at the motherboard. The spacer member automatically adjusts the tightness between the thermal module and the chip at the motherboard, and isolates the digital grounding loop formed in the locating member and the thermal module from the analog grounding loop formed in the lock member and the metal face panel.

Abstract: A diskdrive bracket mounting structure includes a bracket, a hexagonal copper column set at the bottom side of the bracket, a master cushion mounted in a mounting through hole of the bracket and sandwiched between the bracket and the hexagonal copper column, a supplementary cushion supported on the top side of the bracket around a part of the master cushion, and a P-head screw inserted through a through hole of the supplementary cushion and a through hole of the master cushion and threaded into a screw hole of the hexagonal copper column to affix the bracket to the hexagonal copper column, allowing the diskdrive bracket mounting structure to provide both the function of classis ground as well as the function of digital ground.

Abstract: An ATCA board compatible hard disk mounting structure is disclosed to include a cover fastened to an ATCA board to hold a hard disk, a bracket fixedly fastened to the front side of the cover, a plurality of electric fans mounted in the bracket, an insulative member mounted in between the cover and the bracket to isolate the cover from the bracket, and a face panel fastened to the bracket and fitted into one PMC slot of an I/O face panel of the ATCA board.