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US 2024/0206100 A1Published application
Equipment locking device
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsChia-Ching HUANG, Kevin BUANA, Anand Avinash KULKARNI
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Abstract
A method and a device for locking an equipment with a rack are presented. The device may include a trigger and an equipment locking mechanism, wherein upon the trigger automatically activates the equipment locking mechanism upon contacting a portion of the rack. The automatic locking initiates when the equipment reaches a desired position within the rack.
Claims20
An equipment locking device for locking equipment within a rack, comprising:
- an equipment locking mechanism connected to the equipment, the equipment locking mechanism having an unlocked state and a locked state;
- and
- a trigger transitioning between a set state and a tripped state, the trigger connected to the equipment locking mechanism such that in the set state, the trigger retains the equipment locking mechanism in the unlocked state and such that, as the trigger transitions from the set state to the tripped state, the trigger transitions the equipment locking mechanism from the unlocked state to the locked state upon contacting a portion of the rack.
A method for locking an equipment to a rack, comprising:
- sliding the equipment inside the rack;
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- upon the equipment reaching a desired position within the rack, automatically locking the equipment to the rack.
An equipment locking device for locking an equipment within a rack, comprising:
- a rack locking mechanism;
- an equipment locking mechanism having an unlocked state and a locked state, and
- a trigger connected to the equipment locking mechanism such that upon the trigger contacting a portion of the rack, the trigger automatically transitions the equipment locking mechanism from the unlocked state to the locked state, wherein the equipment locking mechanism in the locked state engage with the rack locking mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.