CN113721727A - Server, tool-free disassembly and assembly module and buckling connection mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a server, a tool-free disassembly and assembly module and a buckling connection mechanism, wherein the buckling connection mechanism comprises a first connecting piece and a second connecting piece, the first connecting piece is provided with a buckling groove, and the second connecting piece is provided with a buckling part matched with the buckling groove; the buckling groove comprises a first groove part and a second groove part communicated with the first groove part, and the width of the second groove part is larger than that of the first groove part; the buckling part comprises a sliding block body connected with the second connecting piece in a sliding manner, an elastic arm vertical to the sliding block body and arranged oppositely up and down, and a clamping hook arranged at the tail end of the elastic arm; the sliding block body is provided with a clamping hole, and a button body which moves along the axial direction of the clamping hole and is used for expanding the clamping hook to be clamped in the first groove part is arranged in the clamping hole in a penetrating mode; the lateral part of trip is equipped with along the direction inclined plane of first slot part slope setting to the second slot part, still includes the elastic component that is used for driving the slider body towards first slot part motion and resets. The buckling connection mechanism can be buckled or opened in multiple orders, and convenience in module maintenance is improved.

Description

Server, tool-free disassembly and assembly module and buckling connection mechanism

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of servers, in particular to a buckling connection mechanism. The invention also relates to a tool-free dismounting module and a server with the buckling connection mechanism.

Background

The server in the market at present adopts the module design often, is favorable to the module sharing, reduce cost. In order to improve the disassembly and assembly efficiency of the module, the existing module is usually assembled and disassembled without tools, and a common connection mode is buckled and connected. The module all need strictly follow the operation manual when the installation, just can smoothly lock or open according to operation manual one-step operation, realizes the installation of module fixed or demolish, leads to the module to change the dismantlement inconvenient, and maintenance efficiency is low.

How to improve the maintenance efficiency of the module becomes a technical problem to be solved by those skilled in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

One of the objectives of the present invention is to provide a fastening connection mechanism, which can be fastened or unlocked in multiple orders, so as to improve the convenience of module maintenance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a tool-free module comprising the above buckling connection mechanism. The present invention also provides a server including the tool-less mounting/dismounting module.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a fastening connection mechanism, which includes a first connection member and a second connection member, wherein the first connection member has a fastening groove, and the second connection member has a fastening portion matching with the fastening groove;

the buckling groove comprises a first groove part and a second groove part communicated with the first groove part, and the width of the second groove part is larger than that of the first groove part;

the buckling part comprises a sliding block body connected with the second connecting piece in a sliding mode, an elastic arm which is vertical to the sliding block body and is arranged oppositely up and down, and a clamping hook arranged at the tail end of the elastic arm;

the sliding block body is provided with a clamping hole, and a button body which moves along the axial direction of the clamping hole to open the clamping hook to be clamped in the first groove part is arranged in the clamping hole in a penetrating mode;

the lateral part of trip is equipped with along first slot part to the direction inclined plane that the slope of second slot part set up still includes and is used for driving the slider body moves the elastic component that resets towards first slot part.

Optionally, the button body includes a pull-out handle at a start end, an expansion part at a tail end, and a shaft part connecting the pull-out handle and the expansion part, and the second connecting piece is provided with a strip-shaped hole through which the shaft part passes and moves along with the slider body.

Optionally, the end of the expansion part is provided with a conical guide part.

Optionally, the inner sides of the pair of hooks which are arranged oppositely up and down are provided with guide protrusions, and the distance between the pair of guide protrusions is increased after decreased along the direction far away from the slider body.

Optionally, a clamping jaw is arranged on the inner side of the second connecting piece, the sliding block body is slidably clamped between the clamping jaw and the second connecting piece, and a limiting protrusion clamped on the clamping jaw is arranged at the tail end of the sliding block body in the length direction.

Optionally, the slider body is provided with a strip-shaped groove along the length direction thereof, and the elastic member is a spring arranged in the strip-shaped groove.

The invention provides a tool-free disassembly and assembly module which comprises any one of the buckling connection mechanisms, wherein the first connecting piece is a module body, the second connecting piece is a handle rotationally connected to the first end of the outer end face of the module body, and the buckling groove is formed in the outer end face of the module body.

Optionally, the module further comprises slide rail assemblies arranged on two sides of the module body and used for slidably connecting and fixing the module body;

the first end of the handle is provided with a clamping part, the inner side of the second end of the handle is provided with the buckling part, the slide rail assembly is provided with a clamping groove matched with the clamping part, so that when the module body is arranged in the slide rail assembly and the buckling part is locked in the buckling groove, the clamping part rotates to the inside of the clamping groove.

The invention also provides a server which comprises the tool-free disassembling and assembling module.

Optionally, the sliding rail assembly further comprises a chassis for fixing the sliding rail assembly.

Compared with the background art, the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece of the buckling connecting mechanism provided by the invention are buckled by the buckling groove and the buckling part; when the lock is used, the clamping hooks of the sliding block body can be arranged in the first groove parts according to a normal sequence, then the button body is pressed, the tail end of the button body enters the clamping hooks from the elastic arms, the clamping hooks are unfolded to the upper side and the lower side by the button body, and the locking of the upper wall and the lower wall of the first groove parts is achieved.

When the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece are in an unbuckled state and the button body is used for unfolding the clamping hook, the clamping hook cannot enter the first groove part, the clamping hook is extruded by virtue of the guide inclined plane obliquely arranged on the side part of the clamping hook, the clamping hook moves towards the second groove part along with the slider body relative to the second connecting piece, and after the clamping hook is clamped into the first connecting piece from the second groove part with larger width, the clamping hook moves to the first groove part under the driving of the elastic piece to realize locking.

The button body does not need to be pulled out from the clamping hook intentionally and locked, and then the button body is pressed again to realize locking, and the locking connecting mechanism can realize locking between two connecting pieces in multiple sequences; the unblock order is then just opposite, both can draw the button body and realize the unblock, and the button body that can slide again drives slider body and trip and breaks away from the realization from the second slot part and open, improves the convenience that instrument dismouting module was not exempted from to maintain.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a snap-fit connection mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention in a locked state;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of the first connecting member 1 and the second connecting member 2 in a fitted and unlocked state;

fig. 3 is a schematic view showing a state where the first link 1 and the second link 2 are separated;

fig. 4 is a schematic inside view of the second connector 2;

fig. 5 is a structural view of the slider body 21;

fig. 6 is a structural view of the button body 23;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of a tool-less mounting/dismounting module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an exploded view of the module body and handle of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is an exploded view of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein:

1-a first connecting piece, 2-a second connecting piece, 3-a sliding rail component and 4-a case;

11-a fastening groove;

21-a slider body, 22-an elastic piece, 23-a button body, 24-a claw, 25-a clamping part and 26-a strip-shaped hole;

31-a locking groove;

111-first groove section, 112-second groove section;

211-an elastic arm, 212-a hook, 213-a clamping hole, 214-a strip-shaped groove, 215-a limiting bulge, 216-a guide bulge and 217-a guide inclined plane;

231-pull handle, 232-shaft, 233-bulge, 234-tapered guide.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In order that those skilled in the art will better understand the disclosure, the invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

The invention provides a buckling connecting mechanism which can realize locking under various states, namely can lock according to different sequences without recovering a specific state and lock according to a specific sequence.

As shown in fig. 1-6, the snap-fit connection mechanism includes a first connection member 1 and a second connection member 2, which are snap-fit connected. In order to realize the buckling of the first connecting piece 1 and the second connecting piece 2, a buckling groove 11 is formed in the outer end face of the first connecting piece 1, the buckling groove 11 comprises a first groove part 111 and a second groove part 112 which are horizontally communicated, and the width of the second groove part 112 is larger than that of the first groove part 111; the inboard of second connecting piece 2 then sets up and lock groove 11 complex buckling parts, and the buckling parts includes slider body 21 and button body 23, and slider body 21 can slide about second connecting piece 2 relatively, and slider body 21 sets up the elastic arm 211 that extends perpendicular to its length direction, and elastic arm 211 sets up relatively from top to bottom, offers card hole 213 on the slider body 21 between a pair of elastic arm 211 for button body 23 can pass in and out between elastic arm 211. The end of the elastic arm 211 at the upper end is provided with a hook 212 protruding upwards, the end of the elastic arm 211 at the lower end is provided with a hook 212 protruding downwards, and the elastic arm 211 and the hook 212 are opened by means of the button body 23, so that the hook 212 hooks the upper side wall and the lower side wall of the first groove part 111, and the first connecting piece 1 and the second connecting piece 2 are locked.

The side surface of the hook 212 is provided with the guiding inclined surface 217 as shown in fig. 5, when the hook 212 is spread, the fastening portion cannot be directly fastened into the first groove portion 111, and the guiding inclined surface 217 of the hook 212 is pressed by the groove wall of the first groove portion 111, so as to drive the slider body 21 to slide along the direction from the first groove portion 111 to the second groove portion 112 relative to the second connecting member 2, so that the fastening portion enters the fastening groove 11 of the first connecting member 1 through the second groove portion 112. When the slider body 21 moves toward the second groove portion 112, that is, the right side shown in fig. 3 or the left side shown in fig. 4, the elastic member 22 is compressed; after the hook 212 of the slider body 21 enters the fastening groove 11, the slider body 21 moves to the inner side of the first groove 111 under the driving of the restoring elasticity of the elastic member 22, and the hook 212 hooks the upper and lower walls of the first groove 111 again, so that the first connecting member 1 and the second connecting member 2 are prevented from being separated.

Therefore, when the first connecting piece 1 and the second connecting piece 2 are buckled, the buckle connecting mechanism provided by the invention not only can buckle the hook 212 into the first groove part 111, but also can press the button body 23 to enable the hook 212 to be opened along the up-and-down direction, so that the locking relative to the first groove part 111 is realized; the hook 212 can be directly buckled in a state of being spread by the button body 23, the slider body 21 is driven to slide to the second groove portion 112 under the guiding action of the guiding inclined surface 217 to be buckled into the buckling groove 11, the slider body 21 and the hook 212 are driven to reset to the inner side of the first groove portion 111 by the elastic piece 22 to realize locking, and the button body 23 does not need to be pulled out to be buckled or the button body 23 does not need to be pressed again to realize locking. The separation processes of the first connecting piece 1 and the second connecting piece 2 are just opposite, the buckling connection mechanism provided by the invention can be directly buckled or opened under various states, and the phenomenon that the buckling connection mechanism is damaged because the first connecting piece 1 and the second connecting piece 2 are directly buckled under the state that the button body 23 props open the clamping hook 212 is avoided.

As shown in fig. 3 and 5, as a preferred embodiment, the initial end or the outer end of the button body 23 is provided with a pull handle 231, and the pull handle 231 is in the shape of a knob or a button so as to control the pull-out or push-in of the button body 23 by the pull handle 231. The end of the button body 23 is provided with an expansion part 233, the drawing handle 231 and the expansion part 233 are connected through a shaft part 232, the diameter of the expansion part 233 is larger than that of the drawing handle 231, and the shaft part 232 passes through the second connector 2 and the clamping hole 213 of the slider body 21 to realize the axial forward and backward movement relative to the clamping hole 213. When the button body 23 is in the pulled-out state, the expanded portion 233 is just positioned between the elastic arms 211 arranged opposite to each other in the up-down direction, and when the button body 23 is in the pressed-in state, the expanded portion 233 is squeezed between the pair of hooks 212 arranged opposite to each other in the up-down direction, and the hooks 212 are spread. Because the button body 23 is arranged in the clamping hole 213 of the slider body 21, in order to avoid the button body 23 from limiting the sliding of the slider body 21 relative to the second connecting piece 2, the second connecting piece 2 is provided with the strip-shaped hole 26, and the length of the strip-shaped hole 26 meets the sliding requirement of the button body 23 along with the slider body 21.

With further reference to fig. 6, the hook 212 at the upper end not only protrudes upwards relative to the elastic arm 211, but also protrudes downwards relative to the elastic arm 211 at the lower end; the lower end of the hook 212 at the lower end is convex downwards relative to the elastic arm 211, and the upper end of the hook is convex upwards relative to the elastic arm 211; the upper and lower sidewalls of the first groove portion 111 are caught by the upper protrusions of the upper hooks 212 and the lower protrusions of the lower hooks 212, and the expanded portions 233 are engaged by the upper hooks 212 and the upper protrusions of the lower and lower hooks 212, so that the hooks 212 are sufficiently spread when the expanded portions 233 are squeezed between the hooks 212.

Preferably, the end of the expansion part 233 is further provided with a tapered guide part 234, and the tapered guide part 234 is provided to facilitate the smooth extrusion of the expansion part 233 between the pair of hooks 212. The pair of hooks 212 are arranged to protrude inwards and are high in the middle and low in the two ends. That is, the distance between the inner protrusions of the pair of hooks 212 gradually decreases to the minimum value along the direction away from the slider body 21, and then gradually increases, and the arrangement of the inner protrusions of the pair of hooks 212 is also beneficial to the smooth squeezing in and out of the expansion part 233.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, a plurality of sets of claws 24 are arranged on the inner side of the second connecting part 2, the claws 24 are L-shaped, one side of each claw 24 is vertically fixed on the inner side of the second connecting part 2, and the slider body 21 is attached to the inner side of the second connecting part 2 and is pressed and limited by the claws 24 and can only slide relative to the length direction of the second connecting part 2. The tail end of the length direction of the sliding block body 21 is also provided with a limiting bulge 215, the limiting bulge 215 can be clamped with the clamping jaw 24 to limit the sliding block body 21, and the elastic piece 22 is guaranteed to be in a compression state. The slider body 21 is provided with a strip-shaped groove 214 along the length direction, the elastic piece 22 adopts a spring arranged in the strip-shaped groove 214, and the end part of the strip-shaped groove 214 is provided with a guide post for fixing the spring.

It can be understood that, the elastic member 22 is used for driving the slider body 21 to return to the first groove portion 111, and not only a compressed spring disposed on the left side of the slider body 21 shown in fig. 4, but also a tension spring disposed on the right side of the slider body 21 may be used, one end of the tension spring is connected to the slider body 21, and the other end is fixedly connected to the second connecting member 2.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the present invention provides a tool-less module assembly/disassembly system, including the fastening connection mechanism described in any of the above embodiments, wherein the first connection member 1 is specifically a module body, the second connection member 2 is a handle rotatably connected to a first end of an outer end surface of the module body, the fastening groove 11 is formed in the outer end surface of the module body, and the fastening portion is formed at a second end of the handle. Through the second end of lock or unblock handle, utilize the rotation of handle, make the first end of handle and the installation department that is used for installing the module body form locking or unblock, realize exempting from bare-handed quick assembly disassembly of instrument dismouting module.

Specifically, exempt from instrument dismouting module still includes slide rail set 3, and slide rail set 3 sets up in the both sides of module body, and the tip of the slide rail set 3 of one side wherein is seted up and is stopped groove 31, and the first end of handle then sets up and stops groove 31 cooperation, along the length direction's of handle clamping part 25 that extends. Slide the dress with the module body to the relative slide rail set spare 3 in, when the handle rotated to personally submit certain angle with the outer end of module body, clamping part 25 breaks away from clamping groove 31, when the handle rotated to the outer end face of laminating module body, clamping part 25 locking was in clamping groove 31, and the installation that can realize the module body is fixed with the relative clamping groove 11 locking of buckling part, and the unblock process of module body is then opposite.

As shown in fig. 9 and 10, the present invention discloses a server, which includes the tool-free detachable module described in the above embodiments, and further includes a chassis 4 of the server, the slide rail assembly 3 is preassembled and fixed on the chassis 4, the module body is slid into the slide rail body and the handle is rotated to lock the fastening portion and the fastening groove 11, so that the module body can be quickly installed and fixed, the module body can be a hard disk module, and other parts of the server can refer to the prior art, which is not described in detail in this application.

It is noted that, in this specification, relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity from another entity without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities.

The server, the tool-free disassembly and assembly module and the buckling connection mechanism provided by the invention are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention are explained herein using specific examples, which are presented only to assist in understanding the method and its core concepts. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make various improvements and modifications to the present invention without departing from the principle of the present invention, and those improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A buckling connection mechanism is characterized by comprising a first connecting piece and a second connecting piece, wherein the first connecting piece is provided with a buckling groove, and the second connecting piece is provided with a buckling part matched with the buckling groove;

the buckling groove comprises a first groove part and a second groove part communicated with the first groove part, and the width of the second groove part is larger than that of the first groove part;

the buckling part comprises a sliding block body connected with the second connecting piece in a sliding mode, an elastic arm which is vertical to the sliding block body and is arranged oppositely up and down, and a clamping hook arranged at the tail end of the elastic arm;

the sliding block body is provided with a clamping hole, and a button body which moves along the axial direction of the clamping hole to open the clamping hook to be clamped in the first groove part is arranged in the clamping hole in a penetrating mode;

the lateral part of trip is equipped with along first slot part to the direction inclined plane that the slope of second slot part set up still includes and is used for driving the slider body moves the elastic component that resets towards first slot part.

2. The buckle connection mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the button body includes a pull-out handle portion at a start end, an expansion portion at a tail end, and a shaft portion connecting the pull-out handle portion and the expansion portion, and the second connection member is provided with a strip-shaped hole through which the shaft portion passes and moves along with the slider body.

3. The snap-fit connection according to claim 2, wherein the tip of the expanded portion is provided with a tapered guide.

4. The buckling connection mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a pair of the hooks arranged oppositely up and down are provided with guide protrusions on inner sides thereof, and a distance between the pair of the guide protrusions is increased after decreased in a direction away from the slider body.

5. The buckle connection mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a claw is provided on an inner side of the second connection member, the slider body is slidably engaged between the claw and the second connection member, and a limit protrusion engaged with the claw is provided at a longitudinal end of the slider body.

6. The buckle connection mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the slider body is formed with a strip-shaped groove along a length direction thereof, and the elastic member is a spring disposed in the strip-shaped groove.

7. A tool-free disassembly and assembly module, comprising the fastening connection mechanism of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the first connection member is a module body, the second connection member is a handle rotatably connected to a first end of an outer end face of the module body, and the fastening groove is opened on the outer end face of the module body.

8. The tool-less disassembly and assembly module of claim 7, further comprising a slide assembly disposed on both sides of the module body for slidably connecting and fixing the module body;

the first end of the handle is provided with a clamping part, the inner side of the second end of the handle is provided with the buckling part, the slide rail assembly is provided with a clamping groove matched with the clamping part, so that when the module body is arranged in the slide rail assembly and the buckling part is locked in the buckling groove, the clamping part rotates to the inside of the clamping groove.

9. A server comprising the tool-less assembly and disassembly module of claim 7 or 8.

10. The server of claim 9, further comprising a chassis to secure the slide assembly.

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