Patents by Inventor Sean P. O'Donnell

Sean P. O'Donnell 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: 12079048
    Abstract: A bezel configured to mechanically couple to a housing for housing components of an information handling system may include one or more mechanical features for mechanically coupling the bezel to the housing, an illuminated element module mechanically coupled to a mechanical structure of the bezel, and a bezel connector having a plurality of pins communicatively coupled to the illuminated element module, the bezel connector configured to communicatively couple the illuminated element module to an access controller of the information handling system housed within the housing, such that the illuminated element module receives instructions from the access controller for displaying a visual behavior relating to a status of the information handling system and displays the visual behavior in response to receiving the instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard Crisp, Matthew B. Gilbert, Scott C. Lauffer, Timothy M. Lambert, Libertad Paloma Escobar Carrizales, Peter Kaltenbach
  • Publication number: 20240260222
    Abstract: A server information handling system is secured by a bezel that couples to an access location, such as an air vent at a front or rear face of a housing. The bezel includes a security structure having a lock and configured to couple directly at the front face or with a bezel extension at the rear face so that the server information handling system can use the same bezel with both a front face or rear face rack mount. The bezel has a lock integrated with the security structure, an air filter that fits over the security structure to filter air flowing into the housing, and a filter brace that captures the air filter by coupling to the security structure over the air filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter T. Clark, Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Matthew B. Gilbert, Georg Todtenbier, Oscar Coutinho, Yung-Chun Chen, Ming-Chiao Lee, Chi-Sung Chang
  • Patent number: 11997822
    Abstract: A chassis assembly includes a rack chassis and a block assembly. The rack chassis includes a left side panel and a right side panel that are made from one continuous single material. The left side panel includes a left rail guide, and the right side panel includes a right rail guide. The block assembly is adapted to slide into the rack chassis and includes a top cover, a left sidewall, and a right sidewall that are interconnected. The left sidewall of the block assembly includes a left rail adapted to slide into the left rail guide when the block assembly is located leftmost of the rack chassis. The right sidewall of the block assembly includes a right rail that is adapted to slide into the right rail guide when the block assembly is located rightmost of the rack chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jean Marie Doglio, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Nicholas Adam Kelly, Robert G. Bassman
  • Patent number: 11985784
    Abstract: A server information handling system is secured by a bezel that couples to an access location, such as an air vent at a front or rear face of a housing. The bezel includes a security structure having a lock and configured to couple directly at the front face or with a bezel extension at the rear face so that the server information handling system can use the same bezel with both a front face or rear face rack mount. The bezel has a lock integrated with the security structure, an air filter that fits over the security structure to filter air flowing into the housing, and a filter brace that captures the air filter by coupling to the security structure over the air filter. The filter brace attaches and detaches at the security structure when the security structure locks a server information handling system housing so that the air filter can be changed while the housing remains secure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter T. Clark, Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Matthew B. Gilbert, Georg Todtenbier, Oscar Coutinho, Yung-Chun Chen, Ming-Chiao Lee, Chi-Sung Chang
  • Patent number: 11812567
    Abstract: A handle assembly may include a base, a handle rotably coupled to the base via a hinge, the handle comprising a lock integral to the handle and mechanically coupled to a remainder of the handle via a spring having a spring force that biases the lock in a locked position relative to the handle. The base may include a mechanical retention feature for receiving and mechanically retaining an information handling resource. The base may also include one or more features configured to, as the handle is translated into a closed position relative to the base, mechanically engage with the lock to overcome the spring force that biases the lock in a locked position and allows the lock to return to the locked position in order to maintain the handle in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Sean P. O'Donnell, John Donachy, Juan M. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11682274
    Abstract: A programmable dynamic information handling system rack lighting system may include an array of a plurality of visual indicators configured to be programmed such that each information handling system of a chassis is associated with a set of one or more of the plurality of visual indicators and a lighting control subsystem configured to control illumination of the plurality of visual indicators based on statuses of information handling systems of the chassis, such that the lighting control subsystem causes each set of the visual indicators to illuminate based on a status of the respective information handling system associated with such set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Richard A. Crisp, Matthew B. Gilbert, Sean P. O'Donnell, Robert B. Curtis
  • Patent number: 11665840
    Abstract: A server information handling system couples to a rack and is secured with a security device coupled to one side of the information handling system housing clear of the front side of the information handling system so that the entire front side of the housing is available for venting and/or interface devices like a power switch and ports. The security device has a latch that moves vertically in response to an outward and upward pull on a lever engaged with the latch. The latch secures and releases the housing to the server rack, such as at the rail holding the housing in the rack, and releases a pin from a slot of a bezel that covers a front face of the server information handling system. The pin moves vertically in a channel of the latch and is biased to a locked position so that insertion of the server bezel onto the housing will lock the bezel with the pin while the lever remains in a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard W. Guzman, Richard A. Crisp, Jean M. Doglio, Peter Clark, Kevin Keller
  • Publication number: 20230129135
    Abstract: A server information handling system is secured by a bezel that couples to an access location, such as an air vent at a front or rear face of a housing. The bezel includes a security structure having a lock and configured to couple directly at the front face or with a bezel extension at the rear face so that the server information handling system can use the same bezel with both a front face or rear face rack mount. The bezel has a lock integrated with the security structure, an air filter that fits over the security structure to filter air flowing into the housing, and a filter brace that captures the air filter by coupling to the security structure over the air filter. The filter brace attaches and detaches at the security structure when the security structure locks a server information handling system housing so that the air filter can be changed while the housing remains secure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter T. Clark, Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Matthew B. Gilbert, Georg Todtenbier, Oscar Coutinho, Yung-Chun Chen, Ming-Chiao Lee, Chi-Sung Chang
  • Publication number: 20230128507
    Abstract: A server information handling system is secured by a bezel that couples to an access location, such as an air vent at a front or rear face of a housing. The bezel includes a security structure having a lock and configured to couple directly at the front face or with a bezel extension at the rear face so that the server information handling system can use the same bezel with both a front face or rear face rack mount. The bezel has a lock integrated with the security structure, an air filter that fits over the security structure to filter air flowing into the housing, and a filter brace that captures the air filter by coupling to the security structure over the air filter. The filter brace attaches and detaches at the security structure when the security structure locks a server information handling system housing so that the air filter can be changed while the housing remains secure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter T. Clark, Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Matthew B. Gilbert, Georg Todtenbier, Oscar Coutinho, Yung-Chun Chen, Ming-Chiao Lee, Chi-Sung Chang
  • Publication number: 20230126299
    Abstract: A chassis assembly includes a rack chassis and a block assembly. The rack chassis includes a left side panel and a right side panel that are made from one continuous single material. The left side panel includes a left rail guide, and the right side panel includes a right rail guide. The block assembly is adapted to slide into the rack chassis and includes a top cover, a left sidewall, and a right sidewall that are interconnected. The left sidewall of the block assembly includes a left rail adapted to slide into the left rail guide when the block assembly is located leftmost of the rack chassis. The right sidewall of the block assembly includes a right rail that is adapted to slide into the right rail guide when the block assembly is located rightmost of the rack chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Jean Marie Doglio, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Nicholas Adam Kelly, Robert G. Bassman
  • Publication number: 20220334621
    Abstract: A bezel configured to mechanically couple to a housing for housing components of an information handling system may include one or more mechanical features for mechanically coupling the bezel to the housing, an illuminated element module mechanically coupled to a mechanical structure of the bezel, and a bezel connector having a plurality of pins communicatively coupled to the illuminated element module, the bezel connector configured to communicatively couple the illuminated element module to an access controller of the information handling system housed within the housing, such that the illuminated element module receives instructions from the access controller for displaying a visual behavior relating to a status of the information handling system and displays the visual behavior in response to receiving the instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'DONNELL, Richard CRISP, Matthew B. GILBERT, Scott C. LAUFFER, Timothy M. LAMBERT, Libertad Paloma Escobar CARRIZALES, Peter KALTENBACH
  • Publication number: 20220322552
    Abstract: A handle assembly may include a base, a handle rotably coupled to the base via a hinge, the handle comprising a lock integral to the handle and mechanically coupled to a remainder of the handle via a spring having a spring force that biases the lock in a locked position relative to the handle. The base may include a mechanical retention feature for receiving and mechanically retaining an information handling resource. The base may also include one or more features configured to, as the handle is translated into a closed position relative to the base, mechanically engage with the lock to overcome the spring force that biases the lock in a locked position and allows the lock to return to the locked position in order to maintain the handle in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eduardo ESCAMILLA, Sean P. O'DONNELL, John DONACHY, Juan M. GONZALEZ
  • Publication number: 20220210882
    Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a plurality of indicator lights. The at least one processor may be configured to detect a fault condition associated with a particular information handling resource located at a particular physical location, and cause at least some of the plurality of indicator lights to be illuminated in a determined sequence based on the physical location, wherein the determined sequence is configured to cause a dynamic visual illumination that is directed toward the physical location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Scott C. LAUFFER, Matthew Bryan GILBERT, Richard William GUZMAN, Richard Andrew CRISP, Sean P. O'DONNELL
  • Publication number: 20220020248
    Abstract: A programmable dynamic information handling system rack lighting system may include an array of a plurality of visual indicators configured to be programmed such that each information handling system of a chassis is associated with a set of one or more of the plurality of visual indicators and a lighting control subsystem configured to control illumination of the plurality of visual indicators based on statuses of information handling systems of the chassis, such that the lighting control subsystem causes each set of the visual indicators to illuminate based on a status of the respective information handling system associated with such set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Richard A. CRISP, Matthew B. GILBERT, Sean P. O'DONNELL, Robert B. CURTIS
  • Publication number: 20210329755
    Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a plurality of indicator lights. The at least one processor may be configured to detect a fault condition associated with a particular information handling resource located at a particular physical location, and cause at least some of the plurality of indicator lights to be illuminated in a determined sequence based on the physical location, wherein the determined sequence is configured to cause a dynamic visual illumination that is directed toward the physical location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Scott C. LAUFFER, Matthew Bryan GILBERT, Richard William GUZMAN, Richard Andrew CRISP, Sean P. O'DONNELL
  • Patent number: D912678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard A. Crisp
  • Patent number: D962911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard W. Guzman, Peter Clark, Nick Poteracki
  • Patent number: D972572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Clark, Richard W. Guzman, Sean P. O'Donnell, Georg Todtenbier, Oscar Coutinho, Yung-Chun Chen, Ming-Chiao Lee
  • Patent number: D1018523
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Clark, Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard W. Guzman
  • Patent number: D1027964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John C. Donachy, Sean P. O'Donnell, Eduardo Escamilla, Nicholas Lenn Poteracki