Tamper detecting cases
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorJohn Norton
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Abstract
Examples relate to tamper detecting cases comprising a socket and a mating lid. The socket has a bottom wall, opposing side walls and an upper opening and the mating lid has a top wall, opposing side walls and a lower opening. The socket and the mating lid fit together defining an inner cavity to store a storage unit. The tamper detecting case further comprises a three dimensional grid of conductive traces formed on the opposing side walls of the socket, an inner surface of the bottom wall of the socket and on an inner surface of the top wall of the mating lid, that forms a current path. The tamper detecting case also comprises a sensor that is to sense a flow of electrical current flowing through the current path and to generate a signal to erase the storage unit when the current path is interrupted.
Claims20
A tamper detecting case comprising:
- a socket and a mating lid, the socket having a bottom wall, opposing side walls and an upper opening and the mating lid having a top wall, opposing side walls and a lower opening, and wherein the socket and the mating lid fit together defining an inner cavity to store at least one storage unit;
- a three dimensional grid of conductive traces formed on the opposing side walls of the socket, an inner surface of the bottom wall of the socket and on an inner surface of the top wall of the mating lid, the three dimensional grid of conductive traces forming, when the socket and the mating lid are joined together, a current path;
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- a sensor that is to sense a flow of electrical current flowing through the current path, wherein the sensor is to generate a signal to erase the at least one storage unit when the current path is interrupted.
A tamper detecting case comprising:
- a socket and a mating lid, the socket having a bottom wall, opposing side walls and an upper opening and the mating lid having a top wall, opposing side walls and a lower opening, and wherein the socket and the mating lid fit together defining an inner cavity to store at least one storage unit;
- a three dimensional grid of conductive traces formed on the opposing side walls of the socket, an inner surface of the bottom wall of the socket and on an inner surface of the top wall of the mating lid, the three dimensional grid of conductive traces forming, when the socket and the mating lid are joined together, a current path;
- a sensor that is to sense a flow of electrical current flowing through the current path, wherein the sensor is to generate a signal to erase the at least one storage unit when the current path is interrupted;
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- a host base management controller to erase the at least one storage unit in response to receiving the signal from the sensor.
A tamper detecting case comprising:
- a socket and a mating lid, the socket having a bottom wall, opposing side walls and an upper opening and the mating lid having a top wall, opposing side walls and a lower opening, and wherein the socket and the mating lid fit together defining an inner cavity to store at least one storage unit;
- a three dimensional grid of conductive traces formed on the opposing side walls of the socket, an inner surface of the bottom wall of the socket and on an inner surface of the top wall of the mating lid, the three dimensional grid of conductive traces forming, when the socket and the mating lid are joined together, a current path;
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- a sensor that is to sense a flow of electrical current flowing through the current path, wherein the sensor is to generate a signal to erase the at least one storage unit when the current path is interrupted;
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- wherein, when the socket and the mating lid are joined together, the opposing side walls of the mating lid completely cover the opposing side walls of the socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.