# US 2021/0345514 A1 · Chassis and electronic device applying the chassis

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- Number: US 2021/0345514 A1
- Document ID: US20210345514A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/035,759
- Filed: 2020-09-29
- Published: 2021-11-04
- Earliest claimed: 2020-04-29
- Assignees: Celestica Technology Consultancy (Shanghai) Co. Ltd
- Applicants: Celestica Technology Consultancy (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
- Inventors: Wenjin LI; Yuan XUE; Alonzo Ramirez
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210345514A1

## CPC

- H05K 7/1492: {having electrical distribution arrangements, e.g. power supply or data communications}
- G06F 1/183: Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for supporting printed circuit boards
- G06F 1/185: Mounting of expansion boards
- G06F 1/187: Mounting of fixed or removable disk drives
- G06F 1/188: Mounting of power supply units
- G06F 1/189: {Power distribution}
- G06F 1/20: Cooling means
- G06F 1/206: {comprising thermal management}
- G11B 33/128: {of the plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. disk drives, onto a chassis}
- G11B 33/142: {by air cooling}
- H05K 7/1474: {Mounting of modules, e.g. on a base or rail or wall}
- H05K 7/20736: {within cabinets for removing heat from server blades}
- H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R)

## Abstract

The present disclosure provides a chassis and an electronic device applying the chassis. The chassis includes: a chassis body; the chassis body is a 2U chassis body or a 4U chassis body; a hard disk module, installed in a front end area of the chassis body; a power supply module, installed at one side of a rear end area of the chassis body; a controller module, installed in a remaining rear end area of the chassis body except the power supply module, parallel with the power supply module, and including a plurality of pluggable functional modules; a middle board, connected with the power supply module, the hard disk module, and the control module, respectively, to realize the electrical connection between the power supply module, the hard disk module, and the control module. The present disclosure can improve the versatility of the chassis modules.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A chassis, comprising:
a chassis body, wherein the chassis body is a 2U chassis body or a 4U chassis body;
a hard disk module, installed in a front end area of the chassis body;
a power supply module, installed at one side of a rear end area of the chassis body;
a controller module, installed in a remaining rear end area of the chassis body except the power supply module, in parallel with the power supply module, and including a plurality of pluggable functional modules; and
a middle board connected with the power supply module, the hard disk module, and the control module, respectively, to realize an electrical connection between the power supply module, the hard disk module, and the control module.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The chassis according to claim 1, wherein in the 2U chassis body, wherein
the hard disk module includes 0 to 24 hard disk units arranged in the front end area of the chassis body;
the power supply module includes two stacked power supply units;
the controller module includes two half-width controllers, a width of the controller is half of a width of the remaining rear end area.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The chassis according to claim 2, wherein the half-width controller comprises:
a main board;
U-shaped housing side plates, arranged on both sides of the main board;
a battery backup module, arranged at an end of the main board, the battery backup module provides power supply when power is off;
two stacked M.2 interface modules adjacent to the battery backup module;
two PCI-E modules, in parallel with the battery backup module and the two M.2 interface modules; and
a plurality of dual-inline-memory modules, a CPU module and three fan modules arranged in the middle of the main board.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The chassis according to claim 1, wherein in the 2U chassis body, wherein
the hard disk module includes 0 to 24 hard disk units arranged in the front end area of the chassis body;
the power supply module includes two stacked power supply units;
the controller module includes a full-width controller with a width equal to a width of the remaining rear end area.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The chassis according to claim 2, wherein the middle board comprises:
a first adapter board and a second adapter board, respectively connected with the two power supply units;
a power supply backplane, connected with the first adapter board and the second adapter board; and
a connection backplane, respectively connected with the power supply backplane, the hard disk module, and the controller module.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The chassis according to claim 1, wherein in the 4U chassis body,
the hard disk module includes two layers of stacked hard disk sub-modules arranged in the front end area of the chassis body, and the hard disk sub-modules include 0 to 48 hard disk units;
the power supply module includes two layers of stacked power supply sub-modules installed at one side of the rear end area of the chassis body, and each layer of the power supply sub-module includes two stacked power supply units;
the controller module includes two layers of controller sub-modules installed in a remaining rear end area of the chassis body except the power supply module and in parallel with the power supply module, each of the controller sub-modules includes a full-width controller with a width equal to a width of the remaining rear end area.

### Claim 7 (depends on 4)

The chassis according to claim 4, wherein the full-width controller comprises:
a main board;
U-shaped housing side plates, arranged on both sides of the main board,
two battery backup modules, arranged at one end of the main board and in the middle of the end, the two battery backup module are parallel with each other and provides power supply when power is off;
two M.2 interface modules arranged side by side under and disposed below the battery backup modules,
four PCI-E modules arranged outside and parallel with the battery backup module; and
a plurality of dual-inline-memory modules, two CPU module and five fan modules arranged in the middle of the main board.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The chassis according to claim 6, wherein the middle board comprises:
a first adapter board, a second adapter board, a third adapter board, and a fourth adapter, respectively connected with four power supply units,
a power supply backplane, connected with the first adapter board, the second adapter board, the third adapter board, and the fourth adapter board; and
a connection backplane, connected with the power supply backplane, the hard disk module, and the controller module.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

The chassis according to claim 2, wherein
the functional modules in the half-width controller and the full-width controller have the same size;
the 2U chassis body and the 4U chassis body both includes full-width controller.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

An electronic device, wherein the electronic device applies the chassis according to claim 1.