TWM597384U - Air duct - Google Patents

Abstract

An air duct includes an upper cover plate and two opposite side walls. The upper cover plate has convex structures. The convex structures protrude from a top surface of the upper cover plate. Each convex structure has at least one lock hole located on thereof. The opposite side walls are connected to the upper cover plate. The upper cover plate and a first end of the two side walls form an air inlet, and the upper cover plate and a second end of the two side walls form an air outlet.

Description

Wind shield

The present disclosure relates to an air guide hood, and particularly to an air guide hood provided with a convex structure for fixing.

In the design of the internal structure of the host, heat dissipation needs to be considered. The host is, for example, a server host or a large-scale computing computer device, and the arrangement of dense computer components must consider heat removal.

In the internal design of some mainframes, it includes a mechanism to guide the wind flow, such as a wind hood. However, the air hood needs to have different designs according to the type of the host, and the air hood will also occupy a certain space inside the host. Therefore, how to reduce the manufacturing cost of the wind deflector and improve the problem of the wind deflector occupying the internal space of the host are the problems to be solved by those skilled in the art.

One aspect of this disclosure is about the wind deflector.

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an air guide cover includes an upper cover plate and two opposite side walls. The upper cover has a convex structure. The raised structure protrudes from the top surface of the upper cover. Each convex structure is provided with a lock hole. The opposite side walls are connected with the cover plate. The upper cover and the first ends of the two side walls form an air inlet, and the upper cover and the second ends of the two side walls form an air outlet.

In one or more embodiments, the air guide further includes a locking member. The locking member extends outward from at least one of the two side walls.

In some embodiments, the upper cover, the two side walls, and the locking member are integrally formed components.

In one or more embodiments, the upper cover includes a horizontal cover and an air deflector. The horizontal cover is vertically connected to the two side walls. The wind deflector is connected to the horizontal cover and extends obliquely at an angle.

In some embodiments, the wind deflector includes a wind deflector provided thereon.

In some embodiments, the raised structure is provided on the horizontal cover plate.

In some embodiments, the raised structure has a flat surface. The lock hole of the convex structure is provided on the flat surface.

In one or more embodiments, the air inlet of the air guide hood is provided with a fan, so as to guide the wind flow generated by the fan.

In one or more embodiments, the upper cover of the air guide is used to fix the storage device. The storage device has screw holes. The screw holes of the storage device are aligned with the corresponding lock holes on the raised structure.

In one or more embodiments, the upper cover of the wind deflector is used to set the fixed frame. The fixing frame has screw holes. The screw holes of the fixing frame are aligned with the corresponding lock holes on the raised structure. The fixed frame provides a fixed space to accommodate the storage device.

In summary, the upper cover plate, the side wall and the locking member of the air guide of the present disclosure can be integrally formed, and the raised structure on the upper cover plate can be used to place computer components, which can effectively use the space.

The above is only used to explain the problem to be solved by this disclosure, the technical means to solve the problem, and the resulting effect, etc. The specific details of this disclosure will be introduced in detail in the following embodiments and related drawings.

The following examples are described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but the provided examples are not intended to limit the scope covered by the disclosure, and the description of structural operations is not intended to limit the order of execution, any combination of components The structure and the resulting devices with equal effects are all covered by this disclosure. In addition, the drawings are for illustrative purposes only, and are not drawn according to the original dimensions. For ease of understanding, the same or similar elements in the following description will be described with the same symbols.

In addition, the terms used in the entire specification and the scope of patent application, unless otherwise specified, usually have the ordinary meaning that each term is used in this field, in the content disclosed here, and in the special content . Certain terms used to describe this disclosure will be discussed below or elsewhere in this specification to provide additional guidance to those skilled in the art in the description of this disclosure.

The terms "first", "second", etc. used in this article do not specifically refer to order or order, nor are they intended to limit this disclosure, they are merely used to distinguish elements or operations described in the same technical terms That's it.

Secondly, the words "contain", "include", "have", "contain", etc. used in this article are all open terms, which means including but not limited to.

Furthermore, in this article, unless there is a special limitation on articles in the text, "a" and "the" may refer to a single or multiple. It will be further understood that the terms "comprising", "including", "having" and similar words used in this article indicate the features, regions, integers, steps, operations, elements and/or components recorded therein, but do not exclude One or more other features, regions, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof described or added thereto.

Please refer to Figure 1 and Figure 2. FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of an air guide 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 2 shows a bottom view of the air guide 100 of FIG. 1.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the air guide cover 100 includes an upper cover 110 and two opposite side walls 170 and 175. The upper cover 110 connects the side wall 170 and the side wall 175. Therefore, the upper cover 110 forms an air inlet 105 with one end of the two side walls 170 and 175, and the air outlet 106 is formed with the other end of the upper cover 110 and the other side walls 170 and 175. In this way, airflow can be provided at the air inlet 105, and the airflow passes through the air guide cover 100 and flows out from the air outlet 106.

In this embodiment, the air guide 100 further includes a front cover 180 extending from the upper cover 110. The upper cover 110, the two opposite side walls 170 and 175 and the front cover 180 jointly form the air outlet 106.

Returning to FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the upper cover 110 includes the wind guide plate 120 and the horizontal cover 140 that are in contact with each other. The horizontal cover 140 is perpendicular to the two side walls 170 and 175. The wind deflector 120 is connected to the horizontal cover 140 and extends obliquely at an angle. The wind deflector 120 is connected to the air inlet 105. The horizontal cover 140 is connected to the air outlet 106. Generally speaking, a fan (such as the fan 210 in the subsequent FIG. 3) may be provided at the air inlet 105 of the air guide 100. The design of the wind deflector 120 makes the wind deflector 100 have a certain height, which is convenient for connecting with the fan, and can guide the wind to the components covered by the wind deflector 100 at the same time.

In this embodiment, the air guide 100 further includes a locking member 190. The locking member 190 can be used to fix the air guide 100 to a motherboard (as shown in the subsequent FIG. 3 ). In this embodiment, the locking member 190 has a locking hole for locking. In this way, the user can lock the air guide cover 100 on the substrate by using screws.

Further, in this embodiment, the upper cover 110 of the air guide 100 (including the front cover 180 extending to the air outlet 106), the opposite side walls 170 and 175, and the locking member 190 are substantially integrally formed. Specifically, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the air guide hood 100 may be formed by vacuum blister. The material of the air guide 100 includes a sheet-shaped plastic material. After heating the sheet-shaped plastic material to a desired temperature (no need to melt the plastic material), the partial pressure of the sheet-shaped plastic material is unevenly applied by vacuuming, thereby shaping the sheet-shaped plastic material into a guide The windshield 100 includes an integrally formed upper cover 110, opposite side walls 170 and 175, and a locking member 190.

The air hood 100 formed by vacuum suction molding has a certain strength in structure, and the cost is relatively low compared to the injection molding method. After the wind hood 100 is formed, secondary processing can be performed through Computer Numerical Control (CNC for short), for example, an opening (such as the wind guide hole 125 and the wind guide hole 125) is provided on the wind guide plate 120 of the upper cover 110 126).

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in this embodiment, the air guide plate 120 is further provided with air guide holes 125 and 126. In this embodiment, the air guide holes 125 are elongated openings extending in a horizontal direction, and the extending direction of the air guide holes 125 is substantially perpendicular to the direction extending from the air inlet 105 to the air outlet 106. This allows part of the airflow flowing into the air guide hood 100 from the air inlet 105 to flow out from the air guide hole 125. The air guide hole 126 is a square opening. Both the air guide holes 125 and 126 can be formed on the air guide plate 120 of the cover plate 110 above the air guide cover 100 after being formed, and then processed by subsequent processing. It should be noted that the disclosure does not limit the shapes of the air guide holes 125 and 126 in this way.

In this embodiment, a plurality of convex structures 145 are further provided on the upper cover 110. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a plurality of protrusion structures 145 are provided on the horizontal cover 140 of the upper cover 110. In this embodiment, the plurality of raised structures 145 on the upper cover 110 are vacuum molded from the horizontal cover 140 of the upper cover 110 when the air hood 100 is molded. And formed on the air guide 100. In other words, the forming of the convex structure 145 and the air guide cover 100 is substantially formed by the same vacuum absorbing process. This makes the raised structure 145 substantially a protruding housing extending from the horizontal cover 140 of the upper cover 110. The raised structure 145 and the upper cover 110 are integrally formed.

Referring to FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the convex structure 145 protrudes from the top surface 143 of the horizontal cover 140 of the upper cover 110. The convex structure 145 has a lock hole 150. The keyhole 150 serves as a fixing structure, and the element can be fixed on the convex structure 145. Further, the convex structure 145 has a flat surface 147, and the lock hole 150 is disposed on the flat surface 147. In this way, once the element is fixed to the convex structure 145, the flat surface 147 of the convex structure 145 will be able to effectively support the element without easy shaking.

In some embodiments, the fixing structure on the raised structure 145 is not limited to the keyhole 150. For example, in some embodiments, male/female sockets for engaging can be provided on the convex structure 145.

In FIG. 1, each convex structure 145 has a different number of lock holes 150. This corresponds to the shape of the convex structure 145 being different.

As shown in FIG. 1, the shape of the convex structure 145 having a lock hole 150 is a circular convex hole. The shape of the convex structure 145 having two lock holes 150 is an elongated shape. The shape of the convex structure 145 with three lock holes 150 is composed of two elongated shapes, corresponding to an L-like shape.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the shape of the convex structure 145 is related to the number of the keyholes 150. When two adjacent locking holes 150 are provided on the upper cover 110 to fix the component, a larger area of the convex structure 145 can be designed, so that the two locking holes 150 are disposed on the same convex structure 145. In this way, processing can be facilitated and costs can be saved.

In the present disclosure, a plurality of adjacent lock holes 150 are provided, the purpose of which is to fix different components of different sizes. For details, please see the follow-up discussion.

Refer to Figure 1 and Figure 2 simultaneously. In this embodiment, on the bottom surface 144 of the horizontal cover 140 of the upper cover 110, the convex structure 145 is substantially recessed from the bottom surface 144. This corresponds to that the convex structure 145 protrudes from the top surface 143 of the horizontal cover plate 140, and the convex structure 145 has a receiving space 148 above the top surface 143. For example, the depth of the accommodation space 148 can accommodate a screw. In this way, when the screw holes of the component are aligned with the locking holes 150 of the protruding structure 145, the component can be locked on the protruding structure 145 by screws. Since the locked screws are arranged in the accommodating space 148, the influence on the air flow flowing from the air inlet 105 to the air outlet 106 in the air guide 100 can be reduced.

Please refer to Figure 3 and Figure 4. FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view of an air guide 100 disposed on a motherboard 200 and fixing a hard disk 300 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 4 shows an exploded view of Figure 3. At the same time, referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, to further explain that the air guide cover 100 such as the main board 200 provided inside the main unit, and further exert a space-saving function. For the purpose of simple explanation, the screws used to fix the air guide 100 are not shown in the drawings.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, the air guide cover 100 is installed on the main board 200. The main board 200 is provided with a plurality of fans 210 and a plurality of elements 220 covered by the wind hood 100. The element 220 may include, for example, a wafer and fins for heat conduction provided on the wafer. A plurality of fans 210 form a group of fan arrays. The fan arrays are arranged at the air inlet 105 of the air duct 100. These fans 210 are used to provide air flow, so that air flows from the air inlet 105 of the air duct 100 to the air outlet 106, thereby taking away the heat generated by the element 220.

Further, on the upper cover 110 of the air guide 100, a storage device can be fixed. The storage device is, for example, the hard disk 300 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The hard disk 300 is, for example, a conventional HDD (Hard Disk Drive) hard disk. In this embodiment, the hard disk 300 is substantially disposed on the convex structure 145 of the upper cover 110. Each hard disk 300 is locked by four locking holes 150 respectively located on different raised structures 145. In this way, the opposing convex structures 145 and the keyhole 150 can be regarded as forming a fixed base, so that the hard disk 300 can be disposed. In addition, since the convex structure 145 has a flat surface 147, the hard disk 300 can be stably placed on the convex structure 145. This also corresponds to that the four corners of the bottom of the hard disk 300 are respectively fixed to four lock holes 150 on the four convex structures 145 opposite to each other, and the center of the bottom of the hard disk 300 is substantially suspended.

To further explain the installation of the hard disk 300 on the air guide 100, please refer to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of an air guide 100 fixing a hard disk 300 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view along line L-L' in Fig. 5. For the purpose of simple explanation, the screws used to fix the hard disk 300 are not shown in the figure.

Please refer to Figure 5 and Figure 6 at the same time. In this embodiment, the four corners of the bottom of each hard disk 300 used have screw holes 310 for fixing. As shown in FIG. 6, once the hard disk 300 is installed on the air guide 100, the locking holes 150 of the convex structure 145 of the upper cover 110 are designed to align with the screw holes 310 at the bottom of the hard disk 300. In this way, screws can be provided in the accommodating space 148 to lock the screw holes 310 at the bottom of the hard disk 300 through the locking holes 150 of the protrusion structure 145. The screws are arranged in the accommodating space 148, which can reduce the influence on the air flow inside the air guide 100. As shown in FIG. 6, the hard disk 300 is substantially suspended and fixed between the convex structures 145 to prevent the air guide cover 100 from damaging the hard disk 300 due to contact.

In FIG. 5, a plurality of air guide holes 126 are provided adjacent to the hard disk 300, so that the wind can be directed to the hard disk 300 to dissipate heat for the hard disk 300.

In this way, by providing the air guiding hood 100 with a convex structure 145 that can be used to fix the storage device such as the hard disk 300, the space for installing the hard disk 300 inside the host can be saved. In some embodiments, what is disposed on the raised structure 145 may be other types of elements. This makes the use of the internal space of the host more flexible.

Please refer to Figure 7. FIG. 7 shows a perspective view of an air guide 100 fixing a fixed frame 400 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Compared to FIG. 5, in FIG. 7, the fixing frame 400 that is slightly smaller than the hard disk 300 is fixed to the air guide 100.

As shown in FIG. 7, the bottom corner of the fixing frame 400 has screw holes 410, and the convex structure 145 can be designed with locking holes 150 aligned with the screw holes 410 to lock the fixing frame 400. Due to being disposed between the plurality of convex structures 145, the bottom of the fixed frame 400 is substantially suspended. The fixing frame 400 provides a fixing space for accommodating other components. Specifically, the fixed space provided by the fixed frame 400 can be used to accommodate other types of storage devices.

As mentioned above, in some embodiments, one convex structure 145 may be provided with a plurality of locking holes 150. The positions of the plurality of different lock holes 150 on the plurality of different protrusion structures 145 may be designed to be opposite, for example, respectively aligned with the four lock holes 150 at the four corners of the bottom surface of a storage device. Multiple sets of different locking holes 150 can be disposed on the upper cover 110 together to lock components of different sizes. When a convex structure 145 has a plurality of locking holes 150, it corresponds to the convex structure 145 that occupies a larger area on the upper cover 110. This also corresponds to that the convex structure 145 may have a large flat surface 147, which is favorable for stably placing the storage device or other components.

In summary, the upper cover plate, the side wall and the locking member of the air guide cover of the present disclosure can be integrally formed, and the raised structure on the upper cover plate can be used to place computer components and can effectively use space. The raised structure is, for example, a raised structure integrally formed with the upper cover plate, and the raised structure can provide an accommodating space, so as to receive a fixing member for fixing, such as a screw. In this way, these fixing members have less influence on the air flow inside the air guide hood, and the convex structure can suspend the bottom of the element to be fixed, thereby avoiding damage to the element. These raised structures can also be used to fix other frames, so as to fix other types of components and storage devices through the frames.

Although this disclosure has been disclosed as above with examples, it is not intended to limit this disclosure. Anyone who is familiar with this skill can act as various modifications and retouching without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure, so the protection of this disclosure The scope shall be determined by the scope of the attached patent application.

100: wind hood 105: air inlet 106: air outlet 110: upper cover 120: wind deflector 125,126: air duct 140: horizontal cover 143: top surface 144: underside 145: raised structure 147: Flat surface 148: accommodating space 150: keyhole 170,175: side wall 180: front cover 190: Lock firmware 200: motherboard 210: fan 220: component 300: hard drive 310: screw hole 400: fixed frame 410: screw hole L-L’: line segment

In order to make the above and other objects, features, advantages and embodiments of the present disclosure more obvious and understandable, the drawings are described below. The advantages and drawings of the present disclosure should be based on the embodiments listed below and refer to the drawings for a better understanding. These drawings illustrate only the listed embodiments, and therefore should not be considered as limiting individual embodiments or revealing the scope of patent application. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an air guide according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; Figure 2 shows a bottom view of the wind hood of Figure 1; FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an air hood disposed on a motherboard and fixing a hard disk according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; Figure 4 shows an exploded view of Figure 3; FIG. 5 is a perspective view of an air hood fixing a hard disk according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line L-L' in Figure 5; and FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an air guide cover fixing a fixed frame according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

100: wind hood

105: air inlet

106: air outlet

110: upper cover

120: wind deflector

125,126: air duct

140: horizontal cover

143: top surface

145: raised structure

147: Flat surface

150: keyhole

170,175: side wall

180: front cover

190: Lock firmware

Claims (10)

A wind deflector includes: An upper cover plate having at least one raised structure, wherein the raised structure protrudes from a top surface of the upper cover plate, and each of the raised structures is provided with at least one lock hole; The opposite side walls are connected to the upper cover plate, wherein the upper cover plate forms an air inlet with a first end of the two side walls, and the upper cover plate forms an air outlet with a second end of the two side walls. The wind deflector according to claim 1, further comprising a locking member, wherein the locking member extends outward from at least one of the two side walls. The wind deflector according to claim 2, wherein the upper cover, the two side walls, and the locking member are integrally formed components. The wind deflector according to claim 1, wherein the upper cover plate includes a horizontal cover plate and an air guide plate, the horizontal cover plate is vertically connected to the two side walls, the air guide plate is connected to the horizontal cover plate and Extend diagonally at an angle. The wind deflector according to claim 4, wherein the wind deflector includes a wind deflector hole provided thereon. The wind deflector according to claim 4, wherein the raised structure is provided on the horizontal cover plate. The wind deflector according to claim 6, wherein the convex structure has a flat surface, and the at least one locking hole of the convex structure is disposed on the flat surface. The wind deflector according to claim 1, wherein the air inlet is provided with a fan to guide the air flow generated by the fan. The wind deflector according to claim 1, wherein the upper cover plate is used to fix a storage device, the storage device has at least one screw hole, and the at least one screw hole of the storage device is respectively aligned with the at least one convex structure Corresponding to the at least one lock hole. The wind deflector according to claim 1, wherein the upper cover plate is used to set a fixed frame body, the fixed frame body has at least one screw hole, and the at least one screw hole of the fixed frame body is respectively aligned with the at least one Corresponding to the at least one locking hole on the raised structure, the fixing frame provides a fixing space for accommodating a storage device.

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