Server rack

• US 8,430,462 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2011
• Issued: 04/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Wen-Hung, Chen, Chin-Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): Hansen, James O
• Assistant Examiner(s): ING, MATTHEW W
• Application Number:
  US13/044,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20120126673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 312/31, 312/31.01, 312/36, 312/236, 312/223.2, 211/26, 211/192, 361/679.46, 361/679.49, 361/692, 361/831, 361/678, 361/679.5, 361/679.51
• US Class Current: 312/223.2
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20736 within cabinets for removing heat from server blades

Abstract

A server rack includes a main body, a pair of rails, and a pair of air guiding members. The main body includes two opposite sidewalls, each of which include a first flange defining a number of first through holes and define an air hole. The rails define a channel communicating with the air holes in the main body. Each air guiding member covers the corresponding air hole and includes a second flange that contacts corresponding first flange and defines a number of second through holes. A portion of the second though holes in each second flange and the corresponding first through holes are inserted by fasteners and the other second through holes and the corresponding first through holes without the fasteners inserted are reserved for directing cooling air to the channel via the air guiding members and the air holes.

Claims

1. A server rack comprising:

a main body comprising a pair of opposite sidewalls and defining an inlet at a side of the sidewalls, each sidewall comprising a first flange bent outward from the inlet, each sidewall defining an air hole, the first flange defining a number of first through holes;

a pair of rails received in the main body and attached to the sidewalls, the rails cooperatively defining a channel in the main body, the channel communicating with the air holes and being configured for receiving a switch; and

a pair of air guiding members positioned on the sidewalls, each air guiding member comprising a first section and a second section connected to the first section, each first section being positioned outside the main body and covering a corresponding air hole, one end of each second section being positioned within an intersecting corner between a corresponding sidewall and a corresponding first flange, and contacting the corresponding first flange, each air guiding member defining an air collection opening in the second section thereof, each air collection opening being covered by the corresponding first flange and in communication with the first through holes of the corresponding first flange and the corresponding air hole.

2. The server rack of claim 1, wherein each first flange is an elongated stripe, the first through holes in each first flange are arranged in a line that is substantially parallel to a lengthwise direction of each first flange.

3. The server rack of claim 1, further comprising an upper plate and a lower plate, the sidewalls perpendicularly connecting two edges of each of the upper plate and the lower plate.

4. The server rack of claim 3, wherein the air holes are rectangular, a lengthwise direction of each air hole is substantially parallel to the upper plate and the lower plate.

5. The server rack of claim 1, wherein each air guiding member comprises a cover body and an assembly sheet, the cover body comprises one of the first sections and one of the second sections, the assembly sheet comprises a second flange and a third flange perpendicularly connected to the second flange, the second flange contacts a correspond first flange and defines a number of second through holes, corresponding to the first through holes of the corresponding first flange, the third flange contacts the second section.

6. The server rack of claim 5, wherein the cover body is substantially an L-shaped cover.

7. The server rack of claim 5, wherein each rail comprises a fourth flange, each fourth flange contacts a corresponding second flange and defines a number of third through holes that are aligned with a portion of the second through holes of the corresponding second flange.

8. The server rack of claim 7, further comprising a number of fasteners, each of the fasteners inserted into a corresponding one of the first through holes, a corresponding one of the second through holes, and a corresponding one of the third through holes.

9. The server rack of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of pair of another rails received in the main body and attached to the sidewalls for receiving a plurality of server modules respectively.