Rack sidecar for additional it equipment and cable management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAaron R. Cox, Jason E. Minyard, Camillo Sassano, Kevin L. Schultz
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Abstract
A structure of a server rack and sidecar combination. The structure may include; a server rack having an opening and a server door on a front side of the server rack; a sidecar mounted to a side of the server rack, the sidecar has an access area on a front side of the sidecar, wherein the server rack opening and the access area are accessible form a common side; an adapter mounted to the accessible common side, wherein the adapter does not restrict access to the server rack opening and the access area, the adapter has at least three vertical sides; and a cable management bar located within the at least three vertical sides.
Claims10
A sidecar structure for attachment to a server rack comprising:
- the sidecar having one or more access areas, wherein the sidecar has a means of connecting to a side of the server rack, the server rack having one or more server openings, wherein the means of connecting the sidecar to the server rack does not restrict access to the one or more access areas and the one or more server openings from a common side.
An adapter structure for connection to a server rack and sidecar combination comprising:
- an adapter having at least three vertical surfaces, wherein the three vertical surfaces include a connecting surface, a server door surface, and a secondary surface, the connecting surface is coplanar with a front surface of the server rack and a front surface of the sidecar, the server door surface extends at an angle θ from an intersection line with the connecting surface, the secondary surface has an intersection line with the connecting surface and an intersection line with the server door surface, wherein the intersection line between the server door surface and the secondary surface is a distance (h) from the connecting surface, and wherein the adaptor does not restrict access to a server rack opening or sidecar access areas from a common side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.