Computer chassis for two motherboards oriented one above the other

• US 20080037209A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Open Source Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Open Source Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Rodriguez, Bryan, Niazi, Eren, Rotzow, Marc
• Application Number:
  US11/503,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20080037209A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/683
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/184 Mounting of motherboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/187 Mounting of fixed and removable disk drives

Abstract

One embodiment of the invention is a computer chassis for housing modules of a computer system. According to this embodiment, the chassis features a chassis base, a first tray for a motherboard removably engaged with the chassis base, and a second tray for a motherboard removably engaged with the chassis base. The second tray is oriented above the first tray when engaged in the chassis base. This embodiment also features a plurality of drawers for storage equipment, such as hard drives, where each drawer is removably engaged with the chassis base. The drawers are oriented laterally to the first and second trays in the chassis base.

Claims

1. A computer chassis comprising:

a chassis base;

a first tray for a motherboard removably engaged with the chassis base;

a second tray for a motherboard removably engaged with the chassis base, the second tray being oriented above the first tray when engaged in the chassis base;

a plurality of drawers for storage equipment, each drawer removably engaged with the chassis base, the plurality of drawers being oriented laterally to the first and second trays in the chassis base.

2. The chassis of claim 1, wherein the chassis has a height of two standard units.

3. The chassis of claim 1, wherein the storage equipment are hard drives.

4. The chassis of claim 1, wherein the plurality of drawers for storage equipment include three rows of four drawers.

5. The chassis of claim 1, wherein each motherboard includes I/O connectors including keyboard, video, mouse, USB and network ports.

6. The chassis of claim 5, wherein the keyboard, video, and mouse ports are accessible from the rear of the chassis when the motherboards are in place in the trays.

7. The chassis of claim 6, wherein the plurality of drawers for storage equipment are accessible from the front of the chassis.

8. The chassis of claim 6, wherein network connections from the motherboards are connected in the rear of the chassis.

9. The chassis of claim 1, wherein the first and second trays are engaged with the chassis base via thumbscrews.

10. The chassis of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of backplanes removably engaged with the chassis base, wherein each backplane accompanies a storage device.

11. The chassis of claim 1, further comprising at least one fan connected to the chassis base, the fan for cooling the motherboards.

12. The chassis of claim 11, wherein heat is exhausted out of the rear of the chassis.

13. The chassis of claim 1, wherein the chassis is connected to a rack via a system of rails, wherein the chassis has a height of two standard units of the rack.

14. A computer chassis comprising:

a chassis base;

a plurality of drawers for electronic modules, the drawers removably engaged at the front of the chassis base;

first and second trays for motherboards, the first and second trays removably engaged with the chassis base at the rear of the chassis base, the second tray being oriented above the first tray when engaged in the chassis base; and

a plurality of backplanes removably engaged with the chassis base between the front and the rear of the chassis base, wherein each backplane accompanies an electronic module on one of the drawers.

15. The computer chassis of claim 14, wherein each backplane is engaged with the chassis base via thumbscrews.

16. The computer chassis of claim 14, wherein the first and second trays are engaged with the chassis base via thumbscrews.

17. The computer chassis of claim 14, wherein the plurality of drawers for storage equipment include three rows of four drawers.

18. The computer chassis of claim 14, wherein the electronic modules are hard drives.

19. The computer chassis of claim 14, wherein the chassis is connected to a rack via a system of rails, wherein the chassis has a height of two standard units of the rack.

20. The computer chassis of claim 14, further comprising at least one fan coupled to the chassis base adjacent the backplanes.