Rack component latches
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKevin Bailey, Christopher Strickland Beall, Brandyn David Giroux, Michael Jon Moen
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Abstract
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.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a rack-mountable server comprising a chassis, the chassis comprising:
- a floor;
- a side wall extending up from the floor;
- a front wall extending up from the floor;
- and
- a first latch member opening at the side wall of the chassis;
- and
- a latching component configured to retain the rack-mountable server in a server rack having a second latch member opening, the latching component comprising:
- a flexible member connected to the side wall of the chassis at a proximal portion of the flexible member;
- a protrusion connected to the flexible member at a distal portion of the flexible member, the flexible member:
- biased into a locked position in which the protrusion extends into the first and second latch member openings;
- and
- deflectable into an unlocked position in which the protrusion is removed from the second latch member opening;
- and
- a receiver structure disposed between the distal portion and the proximal portion;
- and
- a key component sized to be received into the receiver structure and configured to move the latching component from the locked position to the unlocked position.
A system, comprising:
- a rack component case comprising an interior surface, the rack component case configured to support a rack component;
- and
- a latching component connected to the rack component case at the interior surface, the latching component comprising a receiver structure sized and configured to receive an unlatching component that, when received by the receiver structure, moves the latching component from a locked position in which a protrusion of the latching component extends outside the rack component case and an unlocked position in which the protrusion is removed from outside the rack component case, wherein the unlatching component is separate and removable from the latching component.
A device, comprising:
- a proximal portion for connection to an interior surface of a case of a rack component;
- a distal portion opposite the proximal portion, the distal portion comprising a latch member moveable between:
- a locked position in which the latch member is outside the case when the proximal portion is connected to the interior surface;
- and
- an unlocked position in which the latch member is removed from outside the rack component when the proximal portion is connected to the interior surface;
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- a receiver structure mounted between the distal portion and the proximal portion, the receiver structure configured to receive a key component,
- wherein the key component is separate and removable from the device and configured to cause the latch member to move from the locked position to the unlocked position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.