TWM505677U - Server chassis - Google Patents

Description

Server chassis

The present invention relates to a server chassis.

With the development of network technology, the demand for various network services by network users has also grown rapidly. Therefore, operators have added server cabinets in the data center to support the computing power and virtual space required for various application services.

However, the physical space of the data center is limited and can only accommodate a limited number of server cabinets. Therefore, the industry has begun to pay attention to the configuration of high information density, and expects to put more information equipment in a certain space, for example, the blade server (Blade Server), because it uses a shared power module and fan module. Etc., so you can save space and accommodate more server chassis. However, the hard disk of the traditional blade server cabinet is an internal hard disk. If the hard disk needs to be replaced or repaired, the server chassis needs to be completely detached, which causes unstable service and cumbersome procedures. It also reduces management efficiency.

In view of this, the present invention proposes a server chassis to solve the problem of requiring the server chassis to be detached from the server cabinet when replacing or repairing the hard disk.

The present invention relates to a server chassis that is adapted to be withdrawn from a server cabinet and placed for a plurality of hard disks. The server chassis includes a chassis body and a hard disk case. The chassis body has an accommodation space. The accommodating space includes a motherboard accommodating area and a hard disk accommodating area. The hard disk case slides along a sliding direction between a take-out position and a storage position. At the storage position, the hard disk case is housed in the hard disk accommodating area. The hard disk case protrudes from the chassis body when the position is removed. The hard disk case has a hard disk placement space. The hard disk placement space allows these hard disks to enter the hard disk case in a depth direction of the hard disk placement space. The sliding direction and the depth direction are perpendicular to each other.

According to the server chassis provided by the present invention, when the server cabinet is applied to the server cabinet, the hard disk case is slid between the removal position and the storage position, so that the server chassis is not detached from the server cabinet. Keep the hard drive status of these hard drives and manage them hard.

The above description of the present invention and the following description of the embodiments are intended to illustrate and explain the spirit and principles of the present invention, and to provide further explanation of the scope of the present invention.

1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e‧‧‧ server chassis

2‧‧‧Server cabinet

3‧‧‧ Hard disk

10‧‧‧Chassis body

20‧‧‧Slide module

30‧‧‧hard disk case

31‧‧‧Maximum surface

40‧‧‧Rotating mechanism

101‧‧‧Chassis side panels

103‧‧‧Chassis board

105‧‧‧Chassis backplane

107‧‧‧Chassis front panel

109‧‧‧Chassis partition

201‧‧‧First rail assembly

203‧‧‧Second rail assembly

301‧‧‧hard disk box partition

D1‧‧‧ sliding direction

D2‧‧‧depth direction

D3‧‧‧ normal vector direction

S1‧‧‧ access space

S2‧‧‧ accommodating space

S3‧‧‧hard disk placement space

Z1‧‧‧ hard disk storage area

Z2‧‧‧ motherboard capacity

1A is a schematic view showing a server chassis according to a first embodiment of the present invention disposed in a server cabinet.

Figure 1B is a schematic illustration of a server chassis in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic illustration of a server chassis in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic illustration of a server chassis in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a schematic illustration of a server chassis in accordance with a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a schematic illustration of a server chassis in accordance with a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

In the following, the present invention is only described by way of examples, and the present invention is further described in detail, but the scope of the present invention is not limited by any point of view.

It should be noted that the drawings of the present invention are simplified schematic diagrams, and only the basic structure of the present invention is illustrated in a schematic manner. Therefore, only the components related to the present invention are indicated in the drawings, and the components shown are not drawn in the actual number, shape, size ratio, etc., and the actual size is actually an option. The design and the layout of its components may be more complicated. Furthermore, coordinates have been indicated in the drawings of the present invention, wherein the z-axis direction is parallel to the direction of gravity and will be described herein.

Please refer to FIG. 1A, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a first embodiment of the present invention, which is disposed in a server cabinet.

This embodiment provides a server chassis 1a, which is suitable for being extracted from a server cabinet 2 and used for placing the hard disk 3. Specifically, the server cabinet 2 has a plurality of pick-and-place spaces S1, and the server cabinets 1a can be respectively taken out or placed in the pick-and-place spaces S1 of the server cabinet 2. In addition, the number of these pick-and-place spaces S1 of the server cabinet 2 is not used. To limit the embodiment.

In addition, it can be understood that the server cabinet 2 and the hard disk 3 shown in FIG. 1A are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the embodiment. In fact, the server cabinet 2 can be, but is not limited to, a blade server cabinet or a blade server.

Next, the server chassis 1a will be further described.

Please refer to FIG. 1B, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, the server chassis 1a includes a chassis body 10, a slide rail module 20, and a hard disk enclosure 30.

In detail, the chassis body 10 is generally a housing structure composed of a plurality of sheets. In this embodiment, the chassis body 10 includes a chassis side panel 101, a chassis upper panel 103, a chassis bottom panel 105, and a chassis front. The board 107 and a chassis partition 109. The upper chassis 103 and the chassis bottom 105 are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the chassis side panel 101. The chassis front panel 107 is connected to the chassis side panel 101, the chassis upper panel 103, and the chassis bottom panel 105, respectively. The chassis body 10 is substantially disposed on the chassis side panel 101, and the housing space S2 is partitioned into a hard disk receiving area Z1 and a motherboard receiving area. Z2. The aforementioned hard disk accommodating area Z1 refers to an area for accommodating and managing a hard disk in the server case 1a, and the aforementioned motherboard accommodating area Z2 refers to an electronic device for setting a motherboard and the like in the server case 1a. The area of the component.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the chassis body 10 can further have another chassis side panel (not shown) relative to the chassis side panel 101. Thereby, the chassis body 10 can be formed as a hollow housing structure, but is not intended to limit the embodiment.

The slide rail module 20 is disposed on the chassis body 10, and is mainly a multi-segment slide rail module formed by a structure such as a slide rail and a roller. More specifically, in the embodiment, the slide rail module 20 includes a first slide rail assembly 201 and a second rail assembly 203. The first rail assembly 201 can be disposed on the chassis partition 109 of the chassis body 10 in a locking or snapping manner. The second rail assembly 203 is slidably coupled to the first rail assembly 201, for example, between the first rail assembly 201 and the second rail assembly 203, but not limited to the manner in which the rollers and the chutes cooperate with each other. Connected. The hard disk case 30 is slidably disposed on the second rail assembly 203 of the slide rail module 20. It can be understood that between the hard disk box 30 and the second rail assembly 203, It is limited to the way that the roller and the chute cooperate with each other.

Thereby, the hard disk case 30 can be slid relative to the case body 10 between a storage position and a removal position in a sliding direction D1 via the slide rail module 20. As shown in FIG. 1B, the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 is parallel to the Y-axis direction, and it can be said that the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 is perpendicular to the direction of gravity. The storage position described above means that the hard disk case 30 is slid in the sliding direction D1 and stored in the hard disk accommodating area Z1, and the above-mentioned removal position means that the hard disk case 30 slides along the sliding direction D1 to protrude from the chassis. Body 10.

In addition, the number of the slide rail assemblies in the slide rail module 20 of the present embodiment is not limited to the embodiment. For example, in other embodiments, the slide rail module 20 is only a single slide rail assembly, or The number of rail assemblies of the rail module 20 can be greater than two.

The hard disk case 30 has a slightly box shape. In detail, the hard disk case 30 has a hard disk placement space S3, and the hard disk placement space S3 can be used to accommodate a plurality of hard disks 3. Specifically, in the embodiment, the hard disk placement space S3 can be provided with a plurality of hard disk box partitions 301, which can partition the hard disk placement space S3 into a plurality of sub-spaces for the hard disk 3 Setting and storage. The sub-placement space is arranged in the manner of M-line and N-line, and M and N are natural numbers greater than or equal to two. In this example, the sub-placement space is three rows and five straight lines. However, for a specific function, each sub-placement space arrangement is designed such that either M or N is one. Incidentally, the aforementioned straight line refers to the number of hard disk layers in the direction of gravity; and the course refers to the number of hard disk layers in the direction perpendicular to the direction of gravity.

In this embodiment or other embodiments, the hard disk case partition 301 can be provided with a guide rail to facilitate guiding the hard disk 3 into the hard disk placement space S3.

Thereby, by sliding the hard disk case 30 between the take-out position and the storage position, the hard disk 3 can be effectively managed without detaching the server case 1a from the server cabinet 2.

In addition, the number and size of the hard disks 3 accommodated in the hard disk placement space S3 are not intended to limit the embodiment. For example, the user can adjust the size of the hard disk case 30 according to the requirements to increase or decrease the space of the hard disk placement space S3 to accommodate different contents. A number or size of hard drives 3.

Furthermore, the hard disk 3 of the present embodiment is taken out or placed in the hard disk placement space S3 along a depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3, as shown in FIG. 1B, in the depth direction D2 and the z-axis. The directions are parallel, and it can be said that the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 is parallel to the direction of gravity. More specifically, in the present embodiment, the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 is perpendicular to the normal vector direction D3 of a maximum surface 31 on the hard disk 3, and the aforementioned normal vector direction D3 is parallel to the X-axis direction. . Therefore, it can also be said that the normal vector direction D3 of a maximum surface 31 on the hard disk 3 is perpendicular to the direction of gravity. Further, the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 described above is parallel to the Y-axis direction and perpendicular to the direction of gravity. Therefore, it can be said that the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 is perpendicular to the depth direction D2.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30, the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3, and the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 on the hard disk 3 are perpendicular to each other.

Although the foregoing embodiment shows the server case 1a, it is only for the convenience of explaining the spirit of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Actually, it is within the scope of the present invention as long as the servo chassis that conforms to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 and the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 are perpendicular to each other. In addition, the foregoing chassis body 10 and the slide rail module 20 are not limited to the present invention in terms of size, and are claimed herein. Further, in this example, the hard disk 3 has a connection port (not shown) to be connected to the hard disk case 30 with respect to the smallest surface in the direction of the hard disk case 30. And the connection has one The wider side edge and a narrower side edge; in this example, the wider side edge of the connecting port is parallel to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a second embodiment of the present invention. Since this embodiment is similar to the first embodiment, it will be explained only for the difference.

The servo chassis 1b provided in this embodiment is different from the server chassis 1a of the foregoing embodiment in that the normal vector direction of the largest surface 31 of the hard disk 3 in the server chassis 1b of this embodiment is different. D3 is parallel to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30. As shown in FIG. 2, the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 and the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 are both parallel to the Y-axis direction, and it can be said that the normal vector direction of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 is also The sliding direction D1 of the D3 and the hard disk case 30 is perpendicular to the direction of gravity. In addition, it can be understood that the hard disk case partition 301 can be removed from the hard disk case 30 of the embodiment, and the guide rails are disposed on the inner surface of the hard disk case 30, so that the hard disk 3 can be guided. In the hard disk box 30. Meanwhile, in this example, the wider side edges of the connection ports of the respective hard disks 3 are perpendicular to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30. In addition, in this example, the aforementioned sub-placement spaces are arranged in a row and more than five straight rows, but they also have a multi-row design, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

Please refer to FIG. 3, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a third embodiment of the present invention. Since this embodiment is similar to the first embodiment, it will be explained only for the difference.

The server chassis 1c provided in this embodiment is different from the server chassis 1a of the foregoing embodiment in that the server chassis 1c of the present embodiment has a depth direction D2 of the hard disk housing space S3 and The X-axis direction is parallel, and it can be said that the depth direction D2 of the hard disk accommodation space S3 is perpendicular to the gravity direction. Therefore, the hard disk 3 is placed in the hard disk case 30 along the X-axis direction perpendicular to the gravity direction. On the other hand, the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 is parallel to the z-axis direction. It can be said that the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 is parallel to the direction of gravity. Meanwhile, in this example, the wider side edge of the connection port of each of the hard disks 3 and the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30 are horizontal. Further, in the present example, the aforementioned sub-placement spaces are arranged in seven rows and five straight rows.

Please refer to FIG. 4, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. Since this embodiment is similar to the first embodiment, it will be explained only for the difference.

The server chassis 1d provided in this embodiment is different from the server chassis 1a of the foregoing embodiment in that the depth direction D2 of the hard disk housing space S3 in the server chassis 1d of this embodiment is different. The X-axis direction is parallel, and it can be said that the depth direction D2 of the hard disk accommodation space S3 is perpendicular to the gravity direction. Therefore, the hard disk 3 is placed in the hard disk case 30 along the X-axis direction perpendicular to the gravity direction. The normal vector direction D3 of the largest surface 31 of the hard disk 3 is parallel to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30. As shown in FIG. 4, the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 and the sliding of the hard disk case 30 are shown. The direction D1 is parallel to the Y-axis direction. Therefore, it can also be said that the normal vector direction D3 of the maximum surface 31 of the hard disk 3 and the hard disk The sliding direction D1 of the cartridge 30 is perpendicular to the direction of gravity. In addition, it can be understood that the hard disk case partition 301 can be removed from the hard disk case 30 of the embodiment, and the guide rails are disposed on the inner surface of the hard disk case 30, so that the hard disk 3 can be guided. In the hard disk box 30. Meanwhile, in this example, the wider side edges of the connection ports of the respective hard disks 3 are perpendicular to the sliding direction D1 of the hard disk case 30. Further, in the present example, the aforementioned sub-placement spaces are arranged in a row and five or more straight rows.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is a schematic diagram of a server chassis according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention. Since this embodiment is similar to the first to fourth embodiments described above, only the differences will be described.

The server chassis 1e provided in this embodiment is different from the server chassis 1a of the foregoing embodiment in that, in the server chassis 1e of the embodiment, the hard disk case 30 has a rotating mechanism 40. The depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 can be adjusted between the parallel direction (Z axis) and the vertical direction (X axis) of the gravity direction. In this way, the extraction direction and the placement direction of the hard disk 3 can be adjusted according to the actual use state. For example, if the original hard disk 3 is placed in the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 in parallel with the direction of gravity, but the space above the server case 1e is insufficient, the hard disk 3 does not have enough space to be parallel in the direction of gravity. When the direction is placed or extracted to the hard disk case 30, the rotation mechanism 40 can be used to rotate the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 to a direction perpendicular to the direction of gravity, for example, the X axis, so that the hard disk 3 can be the X axis, That is, the hard disk 3 is placed or extracted in the left-right direction, and after the hard disk 3 is extracted or placed to the hard disk case 30, the rotating mechanism is utilized. 40 rotates the depth direction D2 of the hard disk placement space S3 to a direction parallel to the direction of gravity.

It can be seen from the above description that the design of the server chassis of the present invention can be used to detach the server chassis from the server cabinet by sliding the hard disk case between the removal position and the storage position when applied to the server cabinet. In the case of effective management of these hard drives.

Although the embodiments of the present invention are disclosed as described above, it is not intended to limit the present invention, and any one of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, The structure, the characteristics and the spirit of the invention may be changed as a matter of course. Therefore, the scope of patent protection of the present invention is subject to the definition of the scope of the patent application attached to the present specification.

1a‧‧‧Server chassis

2‧‧‧Server cabinet

3‧‧‧ Hard disk

S1‧‧‧ access space

Claims (13)

A server chassis, which is adapted to be taken out from a server cabinet and provided for a plurality of hard disks. The server chassis includes: a chassis body, the chassis body has a receiving space, and the receiving space includes a motherboard a accommodating area and a hard disk accommodating area; and a hard disk case slidable along a sliding direction between a removal position and a storage position, wherein the hard disk case is received in the hard disk accommodating position In the area, in the removal position, the hard disk case protrudes from the chassis body, and the hard disk case has a hard disk placement space, and the hard disk placement space allows the hard disk to be placed along the hard disk placement space. The hard disk box is entered in the depth direction, and the sliding direction is perpendicular to the depth direction. The server chassis of claim 1, wherein each of the hard disks has a largest surface, and a normal vector direction of the largest surface is parallel to the sliding direction. The server chassis of claim 2, wherein the depth direction of the hard disk placement space is parallel to the direction of gravity. The server chassis of claim 2, wherein the depth direction of the hard disk placement space is perpendicular to a direction of gravity. The server case of claim 2, wherein the hard disk case has a rotating mechanism that adjusts the depth direction of the hard disk placement space between a parallel direction and a vertical direction of the gravity direction. The server chassis of claim 1, wherein each of the hard disks has a maximum surface, and a normal vector direction of the maximum surface is perpendicular to the sliding direction. The server chassis of claim 6, wherein the depth direction of the hard disk placement space is parallel to the direction of gravity. The server chassis of claim 6, wherein the depth direction of the hard disk placement space is perpendicular to a direction of gravity. The server case of claim 6, wherein the hard disk case has a rotating mechanism that adjusts the depth direction of the hard disk placement space between a parallel direction and a vertical direction of the gravity direction. For example, in the server case described in claim 1, the hard disk placement space allows the hard disks to be arranged in an M-horizontal and N-straight manner, and the M and the N are natural numbers greater than or equal to two. For example, in the server chassis described in claim 1, the hard disk placement space allows the hard disks to be arranged in an M-line and a N-line manner, and any one of M and N is equal to one. The server chassis of claim 1, further comprising a slide rail module connected to the chassis body, the hard disk box being slidably disposed on the slide rail module. The server chassis of claim 12, wherein the slide rail module comprises a first slide rail assembly and a second slide rail assembly, the first slide rail assembly is disposed on The second sliding rail assembly slidably connects the first sliding rail assembly and the hard disk box respectively.