Data Card Enclosure with External Ports for Server Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data card designs for rackmount servers do not provide easy access to all available connections, restricting user access to the data card's connections.

Innovation Solution

A data card enclosure system with external communication ports and electrical connections that allow users to access data card connectors and host interface connectors without opening the enclosure, featuring different types of electronic couplings for connecting data card and host interface connectors, and a signal conditioning system for maintaining signal compliance, along with a host data processor for monitoring and configuring these connections.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If data cards are housed in rackmount servers with enclosed designs, then device protection and structural integrity are improved, but user access to data card connections deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural integrityVSAvoiduser access to connections

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements nesting by placing the data card inside an enclosure housing, where the card is accessible through external ports that penetrate the housing. This allows the data card to be protected within the enclosure while still providing connection access through the housing walls, resolving the contradiction between enclosed protection and connection accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Reliability

If data card connectors are placed inside the enclosure housing, then device protection is improved, but connection accessibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice protectionVSAvoidconnection accessibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses external communication ports as intermediaries that extend through the enclosure housing walls. These ports serve as mediators between the external environment and the data card connectors inside the housing, allowing users to access connections without opening the enclosure, thus maintaining both protection and accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Stability of the object's composition

If host interface connectors are enclosed within the housing, then structural integrity is improved, but usability of host interfaces deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural integrityVSAvoidusability of host interfaces

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The host interface connectors are nested within the enclosure housing but remain accessible through external ports that penetrate the housing structure. This nested design maintains the structural integrity and stable composition of the enclosure while providing versatile usability for host interface connections through the external port interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS10509925B2Circuit board enclosure and method for communications applications

Publication Date: 2019.12.17 LDA TECH LTD

AI summary

A data card enclosure method and system comprising data card connectors and host interface connectors on a data card housed in the data card enclosure. The data card enclosure method and system provided for connecting the data card connectors and host interface connectors to external communications ports.