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US 12,761,697 B2Granted
Information handling system device slot adapter with multiple device types and device slots supported
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJing-Tang Wu, Bo-Wei Chu, Hui-Huan Chien
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Abstract
An information handling system housing includes an interior frame that integrates removeable slot adapters and a garage to hold the slot adapters once separate from the frame. In one example embodiment, a slot adapter has plural support structures and screw openings with an offset bottom surface alignment pin so that insertion into openings in different device slots will support different types of devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs) and wireless network interface controllers.
Claims8
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing;
- a motherboard;
- a processor coupled to the motherboard and operable to execute instructions that process information;
- a memory coupled to the motherboard and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
- plural device slots defined on the motherboard and configured to accept plural types of devices having plural different footprints, the plural different footprints including different standoff heights away above the motherboard;
- and
- a slot adapter configured to couple to a first of the plural device slots in a first configuration to adapt the first device slot to a first of the plural different footprints with a first standoff height above the motherboard and to a second of the plural device slots in a second configuration to adapt the second device slot to a second of the plural different footprints with a second standoff height above the motherboard and different than the first standoff height;
- wherein:
- a first of the plural types of devices comprises a 2280 solid state drive (SSD) having a signal interface at a first end and a screw opening at a second end opposite the first end;
- a second of the plural types of devices comprises a 2230 SSD having the signal interface at a first end and the screw opening at a second end, the slot adapter having an opening to accept a screw and a structure to elevate the second device over the device slot;
- and
- the slot adapter couples in an upright orientation to adapt the first of the plural device slots to accept the 2230 SSD having the first standoff height and an inverted orientation to adapt the first of the plural device slots to a wireless network interface controller (WNIC) device having the second standoff height.
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A device slot adapter comprising:
- a first support structure at a first screw opening to support a first device in a first device slot with an upright slot adapter orientation having a first standoff height when a device rests on a first upper surface in the upright slot adapter orientation;
- and
- a second support structure at a second screw opening to support a second device in a second device slot with an inverted slot adapter orientation having a second standoff height when a device rests on a second upper surface in the inverted slot adapter orientation.
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing;
- a motherboard;
- a processor coupled to the motherboard and operable to execute instructions that process information;
- a memory coupled to the motherboard and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
- plural device slots defined on the motherboard and configured to accept plural types of devices having plural different footprints;
- and
- a slot adapter configured to couple to a first of the plural device slots in a first configuration to adapt the first device slot to a first of the plural footprints and to a second of the plural device slots in a second configuration to adapt the second device slot to a second of the plural footprints;
- and
- a frame contained in the housing interior and having plural slot adapters removably integrated to separate from the frame and couple into a device slot.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.