Patents by Inventor Michael Jon Moen
Michael Jon Moen 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: 11868301Abstract: A computer system includes symmetrical sets of motherboard serial channels which couple processor devices on a motherboard with a common serial link interface. The common serial link interface can be coupled with an endpoint device to establish symmetrical serial links between the endpoint device and the processor devices. The computer system can include a riser card which can be coupled with the serial link interface. The riser card can include an endpoint device interface and serial channels which can couple the processor devices with the endpoint device via symmetrical limited selections of the motherboard serial channels. The riser can include additional interfaces which can couple the processor devices with additional expansion devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Darin Lee Frink, Michael Jon Moen, Christopher Nathan Watson
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Patent number: 11296527Abstract: A power supply system can include a plurality of battery backup units and a control unit. The battery backup units may be utilized to supply backup energy to a power supply unit, for example, in case of a power outage event. The control unit can gauge a respective capacity, temperature, age, and/or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units. The control unit can designate a particular battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units as a spared unit, e.g., to be spared in the power outage event. The designation may be based at least in part on the respective capacity or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit gauged.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ligong Wang, Michael Jon Moen
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Patent number: 11188142Abstract: A rules-based mechanism is described for powering down racks in an ordered and autonomous way in a data center. Power shelf controllers (PSCs), on different racks or on the same rack, communicate together through a network, called the PSC network, separate from the data network. The PSCs are aware of the other PSCs that share the same input power domain. When the racks are configured for use, each PSC is assigned a priority value, based upon the management provisioning layer assignment. Each PSC creates a table of all the other PSCs and tracks each assigned priority value. When a power event occurs, the PSC can power down components within the rack in accordance with the priority table. Recovery can also be carried out in conformance with the priority table.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James BeSerra, David Edward Bryan, Gavin Akira Ebisuzaki, Michael Jon Moen, Roey Rivnay
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Patent number: 10853248Abstract: It may be beneficial in the case of an undesired lapse of external power to provide a back-up power supply to protect electronic components in an electronic equipment rack. This can frequently be difficult and/or costly due to the necessary addition of electronic infrastructure, such as cabling and/or logic. One means of overcoming this obstacle is to utilize unused or reserved conductors in an already utilized management cable to convey a loss-of-power signal to the components in tandem with the existing cable signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Michael Jon Moen
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Patent number: 10765028Abstract: Retention mechanisms for retaining compute components within server racks are described. In one example, a retention mechanism includes a latching component configured to move between a locked position and an unlocked position. The retention mechanism also includes a retaining component configured to position the latching component in the unlocked position. Movement of the retaining component releases the latching component thereby allowing the latching component to move into the locked position.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Strickland Beall, Michael Jon Moen, Kevin Bailey, Brandyn David Giroux, Robert Hastings, Chen An
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Patent number: 10638645Abstract: An assembly for containing and detecting leaks from a coolant line includes a basin with side and end walls, and at least one U-shaped cavity in an end wall for receiving a coolant line of a liquid cooling system. A bottom of the basin includes at least one sloped interior surface arranged to divert water in the basin to a local low point, where a sensor is positioned and operable to detect liquid in the collection basin. A leak detection system can employ a leak detection assembly to detect and/or locate a leak.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jon Moen, Vijay Patel, Felipe Enrique Ortega Gutierrez, Yaotsung Lee
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Patent number: 10587140Abstract: A power supply system can include a plurality of battery backup units and a control unit. The battery backup units may be utilized to supply backup energy to a power supply unit, for example, in case of a power outage event. The control unit can gauge a respective capacity, temperature, age, and/or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units. The control unit can designate a particular battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units as a spared unit, e.g., to be spared in the power outage event. The designation may be based at least in part on the respective capacity or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit gauged.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ligong Wang, Michael Jon Moen
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Patent number: 10563429Abstract: Latching components for retaining rack component cases within server racks are described. In one example, a latching component is installed at an interior surface of a rack component case. The latching component includes a protrusion. The latching component is biased in a locked position in which the protrusion is outside the rack component case. The latching component is moveable from the locked position to an unlocked in which the protrusion is removed from outside the rack component case using an unlatching component.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Bailey, Christopher Strickland Beall, Brandyn David Giroux, Michael Jon Moen
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Patent number: 10401946Abstract: A system includes hardware logic circuit configured to execute power control software. The hardware logic circuit executes the power control software to receive a request from a processing unit for delivery of a power level corresponding to a first power state and determine that the processing unit should operate at a second power state, where the second power state is different than the requested first power state. The hardware logic circuit also executes the power control software to cause a power supply to deliver a power level corresponding to the second power state to the processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason Alexander Harland, Michael Jon Moen
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Patent number: 10386903Abstract: A method for migrating a power shelf between being supplied single-phase power and three-phase power includes coupling a second power adapter to an input of a power shelf of a rack while power is being supplied to the power shelf via a first power adapter coupled to another input of the power shelf. The first power adapter includes a multi-pin connector coupled to the input and three other connectors each coupled to respective single-phase power sources and the second power adapter includes a multi-pin connector configured to couple with the other input and another connector configured to couple with a three-phase power source.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jon Moen, Brandyn David Giroux, Jing Wang
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Patent number: 10050399Abstract: A connection panel for enabling quick change over of a network device comprises a body and an engaging device. An exterior side of the body has multiple sockets, each of which can receive a plug connector. The panel is configured for positioning at one end of a rack space for the network device. The panel's interior side has first network device connections configured to mate with second network device connections on the network device. The engaging device has at least one member extending between the network device and the panel, and is repositionable between at least an engaged position in which the network device is moved towards and mechanically coupled to the panel with the second network device connections urged into engagement with and electrically connected to the first connections, and a disengaged position in which the network device is disengaged from the panel and removable from the rack space.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jon Moen, Max Jesse Wishman
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Patent number: 9722381Abstract: A connection panel for enabling quick change over of a network device comprises a body and an engaging device. An exterior side of the body has multiple sockets, each of which can receive a plug connector. The panel is configured for positioning at one end of a rack space for the network device. The panel's interior side has first network device connections configured to mate with second network device connections on the network device. The engaging device has at least one member extending between the network device and the panel, and is repositionable between at least an engaged position in which the network device is moved towards and mechanically coupled to the panel with the second network device connections urged into engagement with and electrically connected to the first connections, and a disengaged position in which the network device is disengaged from the panel and removable from the rack space.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jon Moen, Max Jesse Wishman