Blade server module

• US 20030147219A1
• Filed: 02/06/2002
• Published: 08/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shin Jiuh Corp.
• Original Assignee: Shin Jiuh Corp.
• Inventors: Chou, Chin-Wen
• Granted Patent: US 6,665,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/725
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/128 of the plurality of recording/reproducing devices, e.g. disk drives, onto a chassis

Abstract

A blade server module for simultaneously installing a plurality layers of small servers in a front and rear array fashion to form a supercomputer for processing a large amount of data mainly includes a casing which have holding units divided to form retrieval spaces for housing the small servers, a radiator located in the casing and an outer lid located on the upper side of the casing. The server module may house and couple a plurality of small servers to form a supercomputer for processing a large amount of data.

Claims

1. A blade server module for coupling a plurality of small servers to form a server module to process a large amount of data, comprising:

a casing including a base plate for forming a housing chamber, and two side walls connecting to two sides of the base plate and having respectively a plurality of holding units located on a front and a rear section of the side walls corresponding to each other to form divided spaces for holding the small servers therein, and allowing the small servers retrievable therefrom;

a radiator located in the casing and interposed between the holding units on the front and the rear sections having at least one coupling section for receiving an air fan; and

an outer lid located on an upper side of the casing.

2. The blade server of claim 1, wherein the holding units are formed by ending a sheet continuously and include a first anchor section fastened to the side walls and a loading section.

3. The blade server of claim 1, wherein the casing has at least one fastening section located at a front end on two sides thereof corresponding to each holding unit, and each small server having a jutting section for fastening to the fastening section through a fastening element.

4. The blade server of claim 1, wherein the coupling section of the radiator has a coupling trough for fastening to a fastening member located on the air fan.

5. The blade server of claim 1, wherein the outer lid includes a front lid, a rear lid and a middle lid.

6. The blade server of claim 5, wherein the front lid and the rear lid have respectively one end formed a second and a third coupling section which have a lower elevation than the surfaces of the front and the rear lids for fastening to the middle lid so that the middle lid is at the same surface level of the front and the rear lids when fastened.

7. The blade server of claim 1 further having an inner lid installed on an inner side at an upper section of the casing.

8. The blade server of claim 7, wherein the inner lid has a reinforced plate and a bottom plate, the reinforced plate having two sides formed a third anchor section.

9. The blade server of claim 1, wherein each small server includes at least a power supply device, a motherboard and a hard disk drive, and has a front end formed a network control socket for linking hardware in series to form the server module.

10. The blade server of claim 1, wherein the small servers on the top layer of the casing has installations of a power supply socket, an air fan control card and a network control cluster socket to form a switch control server.