Power supply device

• US 7,814,347 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2007
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Wakamatsu, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chang; Eric
• Application Number:
  US11/703,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,343 Days
• Field of Search: 713/323
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2015 Redundant power supplies power supply failure G06F1/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2089 Redundant storage control functionality

Abstract

A power supply device which comprises at least two power supply units and the same number of adapter cards, each of the adaptor cards comprising a number of hot swap circuits at least equal to a number of the power supply units is disclosed. In the power supply device power from each of the at least two power supply units is supplied to a respective one of the hot swap circuits within each of the adapter cards.

Claims

1. A power supply device comprising:

at least two power supply units and a same number of adapter cards, each of said adaptor cards comprising a number of hot swap circuits at least equal to a number of said power supply units;

a backboard to which each of said at least two supply units and each of said adaptor cards is connected via a respective connector; and

plural power supply lines on said backboard, each of said power supply lines starting from a respective different one of said at least two power supply units and branching to each of said adaptor cards, each of said hot swap circuits receiving an input only from a respective one of said plural power supply lines.

2. The power supply device according to claim 1, wherein an output of each of said hot swap circuits within each of said adapter cards is connected to a respective diode and thereafter connected with each other.

3. A disk enclosure device comprising said power supply device according to claim 2.

4. A disk enclosure device comprising said power supply device according to claim 1.

5. A power supply method comprising:

supplying power from each of at least two power supply units to a respective one of a number of hot swap circuits within each of a number of adapter cards,

wherein the number of hot swap circuits within each adaptor card is greater than or equal to the number of power supply units and the number of adaptor cards is equal to the number of power supply units, and

wherein power is supplied to the hot swap circuits via a backboard that includes plural power supply lines, each of the power supply lines supplying power from a respective different one of the at least two power supply units to each of the adaptor cards and each of the hot swap circuits receiving an input only from a respective one of the plural power supply lines.

6. The power supply method according to claim 5, wherein each of said at least two of power supply units and each of said adaptor cards is connected to the back board via a respective connector.

7. The power supply method according to claim 5, each of said hot swap circuits within each of said adaptor cards is connected to a respective diode and thereafter connected with each other.