CN1456815A - Display device for fan status - Google Patents

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CN1456815A
CN1456815A CN 02119258 CN02119258A CN1456815A CN 1456815 A CN1456815 A CN 1456815A CN 02119258 CN02119258 CN 02119258 CN 02119258 A CN02119258 A CN 02119258A CN 1456815 A CN1456815 A CN 1456815A
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A fan state indicator is composed of a hot attach-detach fan with detector and indicating lamps, and a fan controller for controlling said fan. When said fan and controller are electrically connected, the signal is transmitted from detector to controller for turning on relative state lamp.

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The display unit of fan-status
Technical field
The invention belongs to a kind of display unit of fan-status, be applied to server, particularly relate to a kind of display unit of hot-plug fan state, to learn the state of hot-plug fan apace.
Background technique
Under people require situation that server do not shut down, do not stop day by day, the reliability of server comes into one's own more, therefore server mostly provides the equipment of live inserting and pulling (Hot insertion and hotswapping), as: hardware such as power supply unit, fan, Winchester disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or interface equipments such as keyboard (Keyboard) and mouse, so that the system maintenance personnel can not shut down or activate again, and application program is still under the situation of carrying out, hot-plug equipment is changed or inserted to server, to carry out the maintenance work of server.
And when the damage of the fan in the above-mentioned hot-plug equipment can't be rotated, can under the situation of not shutting down, change this fan, avoiding bad, and cause server to work as machine because of dispelling the heat, but when the fan damage can't be rotated, the staff also can't learn the information of this damage immediately.
Based on the problems referred to above, the display unit that develops a kind of fan-status is understood the operating condition of hot-plug fan apace for the user, therefore can be in when not rotating at hot-plug fan, find this abnormal situation apace, and with this hot-plug fan replacing, and then allow another normal hot-plug fan continuation heat radiation that the user changed then be the ten minutes matter of moment.
Summary of the invention
Technical problem to be solved by this invention provides a kind of display unit that is used for the demonstration fan-status of server, is in rotation or the state that does not rotate so that the user understands hot-plug fan rapidly.
The display unit of disclosed fan-status includes hot-plug fan and fan governor according to the present invention, wherein hot-plug fan includes detector and tutorial light, with the running situation of difference sensing hot-plug fan and the state of demonstration hot-plug fan, and tutorial light has the display place, two places that the cresset color differs from one another, rotate or rotary state not to show that respectively hot-plug fan is in, or tutorial light only has a display place, and show with this display place whether shinny that hot-plug fan is in and rotate or rotary state not, and fan governor, then be connected with hot-plug fan movably, with the control hot-plug fan.
When hot-plug fan is connected with fan governor, transmit information to fan governor by detector, and make tutorial light show that hot-plug fan is in by fan governor to rotate or rotary state not, when just the information that detector transmitted is rotation information, tutorial light can be by showing this rotary state with one of two display places, or show this rotary state with himself not shinny (or shinny), and when information that detector transmitted is error message, tutorial light can be by showing this rotary state with another of two display places, or show this rotary state with himself shinny (or not shinny).
Further specify purpose of the present invention, structure characteristics and function thereof below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments
Description of drawings Fig. 1 is an installation drawing of the present invention; Fig. 2 A, 2B reach the not demonstration schematic representation of rotary state for the display place, two places of tutorial light of the present invention in the rotation of hot-plug fan; And Fig. 3 A, 3B reach the not demonstration schematic representation of rotary state for one of tutorial light of the present invention display place in the rotation of hot-plug fan.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1, the display unit of disclosed fan-status includes hot-plug fan 10, fan governor 20 and device controller 30 according to the present invention, wherein hot-plug fan 10 is connected with fan governor 20 movably, so that fan governor 20 control hot-plug fans 10, and device controller 30 also is connected with fan governor 20, to see through fan governor 20 control hot-plug fans 10.
Hot-plug fan 10 includes detector 11, tutorial light 12, live inserting and pulling connecting head 13 and inserts indicator 14; Detector 11 is in order to the running situation of sensing hot-plug fan 10 (be sensing hot-plug fan 10 be in rotate or rotary state not), and transmits this information; Tutorial light 12 is in order to show the state of hot-plug fan 10, and have two display places 121,121 ' that the cresset color differs from one another, rotate or rotary state (shown in Fig. 2 A, Fig. 2 B) not to show that respectively hot-plug fan 10 is in, or tutorial light 12 only has a display place 121, and shows with himself whether shinny that hot-plug fan 10 is in and rotate or rotary state (shown in Fig. 3 A, 3B) not; The usefulness that live inserting and pulling connecting head 13 heat supplies plug fan 10 is connected with fan governor 20; Insert indicator 14 in order to transmit the insertion information of hot-plug fan 10 of inserting to fan governor 20.
Fan governor 20 comprises live inserting and pulling connecting base 21, receiver 22, controller 23, Port 24 and display controller 25; Live inserting and pulling connecting base 21 corresponding live inserting and pulling connecting heads 13 are connected with fan governor 20 for hot-plug fan 10; Receiver 22 is in order to receive by detector 11 and to insert the information that indicator 14 is transmitted; Controller 23 is connected with receiver 22, and controls hot-plug fan 10 and the transmission of making information according to the information of gained; The usefulness that 24 air feed fans of connection interface controller 20 is connected with device controller 30; When display controller 25 is used to controller 23 and transmits the insertion information to device controller 30, remove by tutorial light 12 by display controller 25 and to show that hot-plug fans 20 are in state.
Device controller 30 comprises standby power supply 31, with when the power-off of the electric power that device controller 30 is provided, supplies with tutorial light 12 electric power and shows the not rotary state of hot-plug fan 10.
Activation when hot-plug fan 10 uses is described below: (be connected with live inserting and pulling connecting base 21 by live inserting and pulling connecting head 13 when hot-plug fan 10 has just inserted in fan governor 20, at this moment, fan governor 20 also is connected with device controller 30 by its Port 24), receiver 22 receives by the insertion information of inserting indicator 14 transmission and is sent to controller 23, and be sent to device controller 30 by controller 23, at the same time, controller 23 is also removed the state of the shown hot-plug fan 10 of tutorial light 12 by display controller 25, afterwards, device controller 30 transmits the control information of activation hot-plug fan 10 to receiver 22, receiver 22 is sent to controller 23 with this control information again, transmitting these control informations to hot-plug fan 10, and activate hot-plug fan 10 by controller 23.
And the present invention shows that the mode of fan-status is: be inserted in fan governor 20 backs (this moment, both connected) at above-mentioned hot-plug fan 10,, and make tutorial light 12 show that hot-plug fans 10 are in by fan governor 20 to rotate or rotary state not to fan governor 20 by detector 11 transmission information.
Above-mentioned speech is into both are connected at hot-plug fan 10 and fan governor 20, and during hot-plug fan 10 runnings, transmit the receiver 22 of rotation information by detector 11 to fan governor 20, and transmit these information to controller 23 by receiver 22, to make tutorial light 12 show that hot-plug fan 10 is in rotary state by controller 23, as previously mentioned, tutorial light 12 can be by showing this rotary state with one of display place, two places (as: display place 121), or show this rotary state with himself not shinny (or shinny) of display place 121; Otherwise, both are connected when hot-plug fan 10 and fan governor 20, and when hot-plug fan 10 does not turn round, transmit the receiver 22 of error message by detector 11 to fan governor 20, and transmit these information to controller 23 by receiver 22, to make tutorial light 12 show that hot-plug fan 10 is in not rotary state by controller 23, as previously mentioned, tutorial light 12 can show this rotary state by another (as: display place 121 ') with two display places, or shows this rotary state with himself shinny (or not shinny) of display place 121.
And when the power-off of the electric power that device controller 30 is provided, standby power supply 31 can be supplied with tutorial light 12 electric power and show the not rotary state of hot-plug fan 10.
Show by said apparatus that fan state can (be stopped power supply or fan failure no matter be) when fan does not rotate and remind, to allow the user understand fan state apace.
The present invention is a kind of display unit of fan-status, main system does the prompting of the state of hot-plug fan by tutorial light, understand apace that for the user hot-plug fan is in rotation or the state that does not rotate, therefore can be when hot-plug fan be in not rotary state, find this abnormal situation apace, and the hot-plug fan that this does not rotate changed, and use another normal hot-plug fan of being changed to continue heat radiation.
The above person only is the present invention's preferred embodiment wherein, is not to be used for limiting practical range of the present invention; Be that all equalizations of being done according to the present patent application claim change and modification, be all the desired protection domain of claim of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. the display unit of a fan-status is characterized in that: include:
One hot-plug fan includes a detector and a tutorial light, with the running situation of this hot-plug fan of sensing respectively and show the state of this hot-plug fan; And
One fan governor, be connected with this hot-plug fan movably, to control this hot-plug fan, when this hot-plug fan is connected with this fan governor, transmit an information to this fan governor by this detector, and make this tutorial light show that this hot-plug fan is in by this fan governor to rotate or rotary state not.
2. the display unit of fan-status according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: this tutorial light has two display places, rotates or rotary state not to show that respectively this hot-plug fan is in.
3. as the display unit of fan-status as described in the claim 2, it is characterized in that: the cresset color that this two display place is manifested differs from one another.
4. the display unit of fan-status according to claim 1 is characterized in that: this tutorial light shows that this hot-plug fan is in and rotates or rotary state not with whether shinny.
5. the display unit of fan-status according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: this hot-plug fan comprises a live inserting and pulling connecting head, and this fan governor comprise to one of should the live inserting and pulling connecting head live inserting and pulling connecting base, be connected with this fan governor for this hot-plug fan.
6. the display unit of fan-status according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: this fan governor more comprises:
One receiver is to receive this information by this detector was transmitted; And
One controller is connected with this receiver, and controls this hot-plug fan according to this information.
7. the display unit of fan-status according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: more comprise one of being connected device controller with this fan governor, and control this hot-plug fan by this fan governor, and this device controller has more a standby power supply, when closing, provide this tutorial light electric power to show the rotary state of this hot-plug fan in the source of this device controller.
8. as the showing device of fan-status as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that: this fan governor more comprises a connection interface, is connected with this device controller.
9. as the display unit of fan-status as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that: this hot-plug fan comprises:
One inserts indicator, to transmit the insertion information of this hot-plug fan to this fan governor of inserting; And
This fan governor comprises:
One receiver receives this insertion information that is transmitted by this insertion indicator; And
One controller, be connected with this receiver, in order to control this hot-plug fan and transmission information, when this hot-plug fan inserts in this fan governor, this receiver receives by this and inserts this insertion information that indicator transmits, and be sent to this device controller by this controller, and transmit at this device controller and to activate the control information of one of this hot-plug fan to this receiver, activate this hot-plug fan by this controller.
10, as the display unit of fan-status as described in the claim 9, it is characterized in that: this fan governor comprises a display controller, when transmitting this insertion information to this device controller, remove by this display controller and to show that by this tutorial light this hot-plug fan is in state in this controller.
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