Server Tray Bracket Synchronous Plate Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing server designs require complete removal of the server from the case for maintenance, which puts excessive weight on the sliding rails, leading to deformation and increased detachment time due to the need to pull out the tray completely.
Innovation Solution
A server design featuring a bracket with synchronous plates and limiting bars that align and misalign fixing holes to allow synchronized movement of the tray and bracket out of the case, reducing the load on the sliding rails and streamlining the detachment process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the tray is pulled out completely for maintenance, then the server can be removed from the case, but the sliding rails bear excessive weight causing deformation
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is divided into a stationary part (attached to case) and a movable part (attached to tray), allowing selective movement of only the tray while the bracket remains partially supported by the case structure
Solution Approach 2:
The synchronous plate acts as an intermediary mechanism that couples the tray movement to the bracket, ensuring they move together as a unit while distributing the load away from the sliding rails
2Ease of operation
If the tray is pulled out completely for maintenance, then the server can be removed from the case, but it takes more time to remove the bracket
Solution Approach 1:
The tray and bracket are coupled together through the synchronous plate mechanism, allowing them to be moved and removed as a single integrated unit, eliminating the sequential operation of removing the tray first then the bracket
Solution Approach 2:
The synchronous plate can dynamically switch between locked and unlocked states, enabling the bracket to transition from a fixed configuration to a movable configuration that travels with the tray
Data Source
AI summary
A server includes bracket and tray. The bracket is detachably installed on guiding rails of a case. The bracket includes two side frames and two synchronous plates. The two side frames is installed on the two guiding rails of the case which are facing each other, respectively. The synchronous plates having a limiting surface are slidably installed on the front parts of the two side frames, respectively. Each of the synchronous plates has a fixing position and a free position. The tray includes a body and two limiting bars which are installed on two sides of the body which are opposite to each other, respectively. The limiting bars face the synchronous plates, respectively. When the tray is pulled out of the case, the fixing bars are stopped by the limiting surfaces, respectively, so that the tray and the bracket are pulled out of the case together.