I-Shaped Circuit Board for Multi-Drive Data Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional server systems face challenges with space occupancy, increased component costs, signal synchronization issues, and heat dissipation problems due to multiple hard drives requiring separate connectors and cables, leading to potential system crashes and network shutdowns.
Innovation Solution
A data storage connecting device with a circuit board shaped like a capital I, featuring two connectors at one end and a single transmission connector at the other, allowing equal distances for signal transmission and enhancing thermal convection with hollow tray designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple hard drives are connected to multiple connecting boards or data bus cables, then each storage device can be accessed independently, but the space occupancy and component cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple data bus connection functions into a single connecting board. Multiple hard drives are connected to the same connecting board through individual connectors, rather than requiring separate connecting boards for each drive. This consolidation reduces the number of components and space occupancy while maintaining independent access capability to each storage device.
2Productivity
If multiple hard drives are connected to multiple connecting boards or data bus cables, then each storage device can be accessed independently, but the component cost increases due to redundant connecting boards or data bus cables
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple connecting board functions into a single connecting board that can handle multiple hard drive connections simultaneously. This reduces the quantity of connecting boards and data bus cables required, thereby lowering component costs while maintaining the capability to access multiple storage devices independently.
3Ease of operation
If hard drives are positioned at different distances from connecting boards, then flexible positioning is achieved, but signal synchronization issues and signal loss occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the connecting board with multiple connectors positioned at equal distances from the central processing unit. This equipotential arrangement ensures that signal transmission paths to different hard drives are of equal length, eliminating signal synchronization issues and preventing signal loss, while still allowing flexible positioning of hard drives in the storage device.
4Productivity
If multiple connecting boards or data bus cables are used, then each storage device can be connected separately, but heat dissipation space is reduced leading to system crashes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple connecting boards into a single connecting board with multiple connectors, thereby consolidating the components and creating additional space for heat dissipation. This design maintains the capability to connect and access multiple storage devices independently while improving heat dissipation efficiency and preventing system crashes.
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AI summary
A data storage connecting device includes a circuit board, a first connector, a second connector and a third connector. The circuit board has a first connecting end and a second connecting end. The first connector and a second connector are both disposed on the first connecting end and respectively at two sides of a long axis of the circuit board, a location of the second connector connecting with a data storage device being opposite to that of the first connector connecting with another data storage device. The third connector is disposed on the second connecting end for transmitting data from two data storage devices connected to the first connector and the second connector, respectively, via the circuit to a server device, or vice versa.