Server Expansion Card Carrying Structure with Synchronized Linkage
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing carrying structures for expansion cards in servers often result in connector damage due to uneven forces applied during installation or removal, as users struggle to control the forces exerted on rotating handles, leading to tilting and improper forces on the connector.
Innovation Solution
A carrying structure with two engaging components and a driving linkage system that synchronizes the actuation of these components through driven linkages, ensuring simultaneous engagement or disengagement from the server main body, thereby preventing uneven force application and tilting of the connector, and incorporating a positioning assembly to maintain stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If two rotating handles are used at opposite ends of the carrying structure, then the expansion card can be engaged or disengaged from the server, but uneven forces applied to the handles cause the connector to tilt and become damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines two independent rotating handles into a single integrated driving linkage that simultaneously controls both engaging components. This merging ensures that both handles rotate synchronously at the same speed and angle, distributing force evenly across the connector and preventing tilting or damage during engagement or disengagement operations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the connector is disposed at one end of the expansion card, then the expansion card can be inserted into the motherboard, but it requires different forces to be exerted to the two rotating handles, making it difficult for users to control the force applied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a driving linkage as an intermediary mechanism between the user's input and the two engaging components. This driving linkage acts as a mediator that converts a single user input into synchronized rotation of both handles, eliminating the need for users to independently control the force and speed applied to each handle while maintaining the connector's positioning at one end of the expansion card.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the connector is disposed at one end of the expansion card, then the expansion card can be inserted into the motherboard, but the connector is subject to improper forces and easily damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines two independent rotating handles into a single integrated driving linkage that simultaneously controls both engaging components. This merging ensures that both handles rotate synchronously at the same speed and angle, distributing force evenly across the connector and preventing tilting or damage during engagement or disengagement operations.
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AI summary
A carrying structure including a carrying main body, two engaging components, two driven linkages, and a driving linkage is provided. The carrying main body is adapted to carry an expansion card. The two engaging components are disposed on opposite ends of the carrying main body, each of the engaging components is adapted to be actuated to an engaging state for being engaged to a server main body, and each of the engaging components is adapted to be actuated to a releasing state for being separated from the server main body. The two driven linkages are respectively connected to the two engaging components. The driving linkage is connected between the two driven linkages and adapted to drive the two engaging components to be simultaneously actuated between the engaging state and the releasing state by the two driven linkages. In addition, a server having the carrying structure is also provided.