Non-magentic access floor system for use in electronic imaging rooms

Abstract

An access system is provided that employs a floor panel and pedestal assembly designed to provide a non-magnetic environment with no metal on metal contact making the system particularly suited for EMI machine room use. The access floor eliminates the difficulty in calibrating the EMI machine due to minute movement in the access floor panels that arises from metal on metal contact. Moreover, the system ensures that the floor panels themselves contain no metallic parts thereby eliminating the static white pixel noise associated with the more powerful magnets now used in the current generation of EMI machines. Thus a considerably more versatile access floor is provided that can support the need of the current generation of EMI machines to be movement free and to not generate static interference in their visual output.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is related to and claims priority from earlier filed U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 134,732, filed Jul. 14, 2009.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to access flooring systems. More specifically, the present invention relates to an improved access flooring system that is constructed entirely from non-magnetic materials in a manner that allows use of the system in applications where a strong magnetic field exists.[0003]During the early development of computers and related technology, the equipment was commonly housed in centralized computer rooms. This equipment generally consisted of several pieces of bulky equipment that needed power cabling and communication cabling between each piece. In addition, the large pieces of equipment maintained in a confined space generated large quantities of heat, thus requiring cooling equipment. All of the cabling that ran between the equip...

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[0009]In this regard, the present invention provides an improved access system that employs floor panels and pedestals that have no metal on metal component contact and is therefore totally non-magnetic. The pedestal assembly has a stainless steel support rod that extends between a non-metallic cap and a non-metallic base support. Since the support post cap and b...

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In addition, the large pieces of equipment maintained in a confined space generated large quantities of heat, thus requiring cooling equipment.

Further, the air conditioning was pumped into the room typically using wall or ceiling registers in a manner that did not efficiently cool the equipment.

The access floor used in such rooms must use non-magnetic materials in the floor construction or else even minute movement in the floor caused by the strong magnetic field generated by the EMI machine will interfere with the operation of the EMI machine and its output.

However, as the magnets used in the EMI machines have become increa...

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