Removable component filter
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsDavid Dickey, Richard B. Nelson, Seiya Ohta
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Abstract
A cost effective and easily manufactured filler for a removable system component. A hard disk drive filler embodiment is disclosed having five exterior sides and internal baffles to simulate the airflow modifying characteristics of a hard disk drive. The hard disk drive filler is stackable, flame-resistant, and is manufactured by an injection-molding process.
Claims16
A filler that replaces a removable component within a system having components cooled by heat exchange from heat-producing components to a flowing fluid, the filler comprising:
- an open, tray-like, injection-molded body with external dimensions equivalent to the solid removable component having a solid side and an open side;
- a handle extending from, and continuous with, the tray-like body;
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- baffles extending from, and continuous with, an interior surface of the tray-like body that produce fluid-flow modifying characteristics across the open side of the tray-like body similar to the fluid-flow modifying characteristics across an equivalent side of the removable component.
A hard disk drive filler that fills an open slot left in a bank of hard disk drives within a disk array, the disk array cooled by heat exchange from heat-producing components to air forced through the disk array by an electric fan, the filler comprising:
- an open, tray-like, injection-molded body with external dimensions equivalent to a hard disk drive and having a solid side and an open side;
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- baffles extending from an interior surface of the sold side that produce turbulent air-flow characteristics across the open side of the tray-like body that permit a flow of air between the open side of the tray-like body and an adjacent hard disk drive similar to the flow of air between two adjacent hard disk drives.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.