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US 12,713,550 B2Granted
Equipment rail with finger mounting bracket
AssigneePanduit Corp.
InventorTomasz K. Waz
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Abstract
An equipment rail mounted in a data center cabinet to support rack mounted equipment in the data center cabinet. The equipment rail includes a first section and a second section. A finger mounting bracket is secured to the second section of the equipment rail. The finger mounting bracket has a first member with sidewalls and a second member parallel to the first member. The distal ends of the sidewalls engage the equipment rail to form an open area between the first member and the second section of the equipment rail.
Claims16
An equipment rail mounted in a data center cabinet, the equipment rail comprising:
- a first section and a second section;
- and
- a finger mounting bracket secured to the second section, wherein the finger mounting bracket has a first member with sidewalls extending in a same direction and a second member parallel to the first member, wherein distal ends of the sidewalls engage the equipment rail forming an open area between the first member and the equipment rail such as to be framed by the equipment rail on a first side, a center section of the first member on a second side opposite the first side, and the sidewalls of the first member connecting the first side to the second side on opposite ends of the first side and the second side wherein the second section includes a plurality of vertical slots and fastener openings, the second member of the finger mounting bracket extends from a distal end of one of the sidewalls of the first member, a plurality of hooks extend from a distal end of opposite side wall of the first member, whereby the hooks are installed in the vertical slots in the equipment rail to secure the finger mounting bracket to the equipment rail.
A data center cabinet comprising:
- a frame including front vertical posts, a first bottom side to side beam and a first top side to side beam positioned between and connected to the front vertical posts, back vertical posts, a second bottom side to side beam and a second top side to side beam positioned between and connected to the back vertical posts, a plurality of front to back beams positioned between and connected to one of the front vertical posts and one of the back vertical posts;
- equipment rails secured to the plurality of front to back beams, wherein each equipment rail has a first section and a second section;
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- a finger mounting bracket secured to one of the equipment rails, wherein the finger mounting bracket has a first member with sidewalls and a second member parallel to the first member extending in a same direction, wherein distal ends of the sidewalls engage the equipment rail forming an open area between the first member and the equipment rail such as to be framed by the equipment rail on a first side, a center section of the first member on a second side opposite the first side, and the sidewalls of the first member connecting the first side to the second side on opposite ends of the first side and the second side,
- wherein the second section includes a plurality of vertical slots and fastener openings, the second member of the finger mounting bracket extends from a distal end of one of the sidewalls of the first member, a plurality of hooks extend from a distal end of opposite side wall of the first member, whereby the hooks are installed in the vertical slots in the equipment rail to secure the finger mounting bracket to the equipment rail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.