Modular Distribution Panel Drawer Design for Data Center Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern data centers face challenges in maintaining network cabling due to frequent hardware changes and increasing power densities, leading to difficulties in accessing and updating cabling systems efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A modular distribution panel system featuring a plate-shaped module carrier with removable and lockable drawer design, allowing for flexible arrangement and easy maintenance, combined with shielded distribution modules that can accommodate various connection types, including RJ-45 and fiber optic connections, to ensure high data transmission rates and reduced complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If distribution panels use fixed stationary designs with shielded housings, then shielding effectiveness and transmission rates are improved, but maintenance difficulty and adaptability to hardware changes worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The distribution panel is divided into separate distribution modules that can be independently removed and replaced. Each module contains connection sockets and internal wiring, allowing individual module replacement without affecting other modules. This segmentation enables easy maintenance while maintaining the shielded housing structure for reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The distribution modules are designed with dynamic characteristics, allowing them to be inserted and removed from the panel. The modules can be quickly swapped to adapt to hardware changes, transforming the static fixed design into a dynamic reconfigurable system that maintains shielding effectiveness through the enclosed housing structure.
2Stability of the object's composition
If distribution panels use fixed stationary designs, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability to hardware changes and ease of maintenance worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The panel structure is segmented into a stable housing framework and removable distribution modules. The housing provides structural stability, while the modular components enable adaptability. This allows the system to maintain structural integrity while facilitating easy reconfiguration for different hardware requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The distribution modules are designed as universal components that can be applied in different configurations and positions within the panel. The standardized module design allows the same structural framework to support various module types, enhancing adaptability while maintaining structural stability through the consistent housing design.
3Device complexity
If distribution panels are designed as integrated fixed units, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of repair and maintenance worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated unit is segmented into reusable housing components and replaceable distribution modules. This segmentation reduces repair complexity by allowing individual module replacement rather than entire panel replacement, while the standardized module design keeps overall system complexity manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular design enables selective replacement of defective distribution modules while recovering and retaining functional modules for reuse. This approach simplifies repair operations by allowing quick swap-out of problematic modules while preserving working components, reducing both time and complexity of maintenance.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an arrangement of modular distribution modules (11) for connecting analog or digitally switched connection sockets with further distribution modules or further lines or terminal devices, characterized in that at least one plate-shaped module carrier (1) has one or more distribution modules arranged thereon and the module carrier(s) is/are not designed to be stationary.