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US 12,681,545 B2Granted
Front input/output (I/O) expansion module for a computing device
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsMichael Dudley French, Jr., Bradley Paul Antczak, Nathan Okenna Onyejiaka, Paul Spence Sawyer
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Abstract
An input/output (I/O) expansion module includes a first substrate, and an expansion slot disposed on the first substrate. The expansion slot is configured to be communicatively coupled to a backplane slot disposed on a backplane of a computing device. The computing device is external to the I/O expansion module.
Claims18
An input/output (I/O) expansion enclosure, comprising:
- a rackmountable chassis;
- a riser card mounted within the chassis, the riser card comprising one or more I/O expansion card slots each configured to receive a corresponding I/O card;
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- a cable configured to communicatively couple the one or more I/O expansion card slots of the riser card to a conversion module installed in a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) drive slot on a NVME backplane of a rackmountable computing device external to the rackmountable chassis of the I/O expansion enclosure.
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A system comprising:
- a rack unit comprising one or more rack spaces;
- a computing device installed in a first rack space of the rack unit, the computing device comprising a peripheral component bay accessible from a first side of the computing device, wherein the peripheral component bay comprises a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) storage device backplane having NVME storage device slots each configured to receive a corresponding NVME storage device;
- a conversion module installed in the peripheral component bay of the computing device and coupled to at least one of the storage device slots present on the storage device backplane;
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- an input/output (I/O) expansion module external to the computing device and installed in a second rack space, the I/O expansion module comprising:
- a chassis;
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- a riser card mounted within the chassis, the riser card comprising one or more I/O expansion card slots each configured to receive a respective I/O expansion card;
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- a cable connecting the I/O expansion module to the computing device and configured to communicatively couple wherein the one or more I/O expansion card slots of the riser card to the NVME storage device backplane of the computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.