Adaptive Information Handling System Rack Rail Mount
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorGregory L. Henderson
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Abstract
A rail adjustable mount adjusts a rail to support information handling system chassis with different depths in racks of different depths. The adjustable mount couples to a rack front with a sliding portion extending into the rack interior. The adjustable mount sliding portion slidingly engages a guide of the rail to allow adjustment of the rail relative to the rack so that a rail fits into a rack having a depth that is greater than the length of the rail's housing. A floating portion of the rail supports the rail at the rear of the rack and allows the rail position to float relative to the rear of the rack. A biasing device of the adjustable mount biases the rail towards the front of the rack to aid full extension and retraction of the rail at the rack.
Claims18
1-20. (canceled)
An information handling system comprising:
- a rack;
- a rail disposed on the rack;
- an information handling system supported by the rail in the rack, the information handling system having a processor and memory interfaced through a circuit board to process information, the rail operable to slide the information handling system between an interior and an exterior of the rack;
- and
- an adjustable mount coupled to the rail and coordinating motion of the information handling system to first and second positions;
- wherein:
- the first position corresponds to a fully retracted position with the information handling system having a minimum depth;
- the second position corresponding to the fully retracted position with the information handling system having a depth greater than the minimum depth;
- the adjustable mount biases to the first position to maintain the rail relative to the adjustable mount during movement of the information handling system having a minimum depth as the one information handling system slides from an extended position outside of the rack to the first position;
- wherein the adjustable mount biases to the first position to maintain the rail relative to the adjustable mount during movement of the information handling system having depth greater than the minimum depth as the information handling system having a depth of greater than the minimum depth slides from an extended position outside of the rack towards the first position, the adjustable mount overcoming the bias as the information handling system having a depth of greater than the minimum depth passes the first position towards the second position to move the rail relative to the adjustable mount.
A method for supporting an information handling system chassis in a rack, the method comprising:
- coupling the information handling system to a first rail, the first rail coupled to a first adjustable mount;
- coupling a second information handling system to a second rail, the second rail coupled to a second adjustable mount;
- mounting the first and second rails in the rack, each rail mounted to float relative to the front support and the rear support;
- sliding the first information handling system having a first depth from an extended position outside of the rack to a first position in the rack, the adjustable mount biasing the first rail to maintain a constant position relative to the front support and rear support;
- and
- sliding the second information handling system having a second depth, the second depth greater than the first depth, the sliding from an extended position outside of the rack to a second position in the rack, the adjustable mount biasing the rail to maintain a constant position relative to the front support and the rear support as the second information moves toward the rack and overcoming the biasing to move the rail relative to the front support and rear support as the second information handling system moves to the second position.
A system for coupling information handling systems of different depths to a rack, the system comprising:
- a rail having a housing and a sliding portion, the sliding portion sliding out a front of the housing, the rail floating within the rack;
- an information handling system chassis mount disposed at the sliding portion and operable to couple with an information handling system chassis;
- an adjustable mount having a mounting portion operable to couple to a front of the rack, the adjustable mount coupling to the rail, the adjustable mount operable to fully retract a first information handling system having a first depth into the rack, the adjustable mount biasing the rail in a first position relative to the rack for fully retracting the first information handling system, the adjustable mount biasing the rail in the first position for retraction of a second information handling system chassis having a second depth to the first depth and overcoming the biasing to move the rail to a second position during further retraction of the second information handling system chassis past the first depth to the second depth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.