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US 9,104,387 B1Granted
Rack slide system
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorJohn W. Eichelberg
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a rack slide system comprising an elongated supporting structure and a plurality of mobile racks mounted on the elongated supporting structure in side-by-side relation for movement along a controlled path, where the length of the path exceeds by a predetermined amount the sum of the depths of the mobile racks to provide at least one gap between selected ones of the mobile racks.
Claims11
A rack slide system comprising:
- an elongated supporting structure comprising a plurality of slide rails;
- a plurality of mobile racks mounted on the elongated supporting structure in a front-to-back relation for movement along a controlled path, a length of the path exceeding, by a predetermined amount, a sum of depths of the plurality of mobile racks to provide at least one gap between selected ones of the plurality of mobile racks,
- wherein the plurality of mobile racks is arranged to house electronic equipment having side-to-side airflow ventilation, wherein an individual respective one of the plurality of mobile racks has a front, a back, and two sides with side-to-side airflow ventilation and is oriented on the elongated supporting structure to enable an intake ventilation of the electronic equipment to receive air from a cold aisle and an exhaust ventilation of the electronic equipment to blow air out into a hot aisle;
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- an overhead cable management system with tension control to regulate an amount of slack in a network cable connected to the electronic equipment housed in one of the plurality of mobile racks, wherein the overhead cable management system provides to the one of the plurality of mobile racks a length of network cable that allows the one of the plurality of mobile racks to move any distance that does not exceed an entire mobile rack depth-length along the elongated supporting structure,
- wherein the overhead cable management system with tension control comprises a tension pulley that is spring loaded to regulate the slack in the network cable when tension is not being applied to the network cable by the one of the plurality of mobile racks,
- wherein a footprint of the at least one gap is equivalent to or greater than a footprint of the one of the plurality of mobile racks.
4 more elements
A rack slide system comprising:
- an elongated supporting structure;
- a plurality of mobile racks mounted on the elongated supporting structure in a front-to-back relation for movement along a controlled path, a length of the path exceeding, by a predetermined amount, a sum of depths of the plurality of mobile racks to provide at least one gap between selected ones of the plurality of mobile racks;
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- an overhead cable management system with tension control to regulate an amount of slack in a network cable connected to electronic equipment housed in one of the plurality of mobile racks, wherein the overhead cable management system with tension control comprises a tension pulley that is spring loaded to regulate the slack in the network cable when tension is not being applied to the network cable by the one of the plurality of mobile racks,
- wherein a footprint of the at least one gap is equivalent to or greater than a mobile rack footprint,
- wherein the plurality of mobile racks is arranged to house electronic equipment having side-to-side airflow ventilation, wherein an individual respective one of the plurality of mobile racks has a front, a back, and two sides with side-to-side airflow ventilation and is oriented on the elongated supporting structure to enable an intake ventilation of the electronic equipment to receive air from a cold aisle and an exhaust ventilation of the electronic equipment to blow air out into a hot aisle.
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A data center comprising:
- at least a first row of a first plurality of mobile racks;
- a hot aisle defined by a space behind the first row of the first plurality of mobile racks, wherein exhaust from electronic equipment housed in the first plurality of mobile racks in the first row flows to the hot aisle;
- a cold aisle defined by a space in front of the first row of the first plurality of mobile racks, wherein the electronic equipment housed in the first plurality of mobile racks in the first row receives air from the cold aisle;
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- an overhead cable management system with tension control to regulate an amount of slack in a network cable connected to the electronic equipment housed in one of the first plurality of mobile racks, the overhead cable management system being positioned above the first row of the first plurality of mobile racks, wherein the overhead cable management system with tension control comprises a tension pulley that is spring loaded to regulate the slack in the network cable when tension is not being applied to the network cable by the one of the plurality of mobile racks,
- wherein the first plurality of mobile racks in the first row is mounted on an elongated supporting structure in a front-to-back relation for movement along a controlled path, a length of the path exceeding, by a predetermined amount, a sum of depths of the first plurality of mobile racks to provide at least one gap between selected ones of the first plurality of mobile racks,
- wherein a footprint of the at least one gap is equivalent to or greater than a mobile rack footprint, and
- wherein the first plurality of mobile racks is arranged to house electronic equipment having side-to-side airflow ventilation, wherein an individual respective one of the first plurality of mobile racks has a front, a back, and two sides with side-to-side airflow ventilation and is oriented on the elongated supporting structure to enable an intake ventilation of the electronic equipment to receive air from the cold aisle and an exhaust ventilation of the electronic equipment to blow air out into the hot aisle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.