Casing and redundant power supply thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10401923-B2
Application number	US-201615259027-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2016
Priority date	Nov 12, 2015
Publication date	Sep 3, 2019
Grant date	Sep 3, 2019

Abstract

A casing including a first body and a locking plate is provided, the locking plate is installed to the first body, and the locking plate extends inward to form a frame, so as to lock the casing to a main chassis of a desktop computer. Compared with the existing technique, the casing is directly locked to the main chassis of the desktop computer from exterior to interior through the locking plate, i.e. the casing is adapted to install the redundant power supply without changing an internal configuration of the main chassis or changing an outline dimension of the main chassis or the casing. Moreover, in terms of material purchase, it is unnecessary to purchase casings of other dimensions, but only one type of casings are used to produce general power supplies and redundant power supplies, so as to effectively save the manufacturing cost. Moreover, a redundant power supply is provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A casing, comprising:
a first body; and
a locking plate, wherein the locking plate is installed to the first body, the first body has an internal space for accommodating two redundant power supplies, and the locking plate extends inward to form a frame and a locking member penetrates a portion of the locking plate, so as to lock the casing into a main chassis of a desktop computer,
wherein one of the two redundant power supplies disposed in the casing comprises a second body, a first circuit board, a second circuit board and a third circuit board, wherein the first circuit board, the second circuit board and the third circuit board are all disposed in the second body, and the second circuit board and the third circuit board are all perpendicular to and electrically connected to the first circuit board, and the second circuit board and the third circuit board are disposed along a length direction of the second body and are respectively close to two inner sidewalls of the second body opposite to each other.

2. The casing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the portion of the locking plate is configured with at least one locking hole, and the casing is locked into the main chassis of the desktop computer through the locking hole being penetrated by the locking member, and the locking plate is partially folded inward to the internal space.

3. The casing as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a length of the first body is 190 mm, a width of the first body is 150 mm, and a height of the first body is 86 mm.

4. The casing as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising:
at least one guide plate disposed on an inner sidewall of the internal space.

5. The casing as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising:
a separation plate formed by the guide plate by vertically extending towards a center of the internal space.

6. The casing as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the separation plate is perpendicular to a length direction of the first body.

7. The casing as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the separation plate is parallel to a length direction of the first body.

8. The casing as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a casing circuit board;
a direct current (DC)-to-DC converter circuit board; and
a first power management bus circuit board, wherein the casing circuit board, the DC-to-DC converter circuit board and the first power management bus circuit board are disposed in the internal space, the casing circuit board is configured with a connection slot for plugging the redundant power supply, and the DC-to-DC converter circuit board is electrically connected to the casing circuit board.

9. A redundant power supply, being one of the two redundant power supplies and disposed in the casing as claimed in claim 8 , comprising:
the second body;
the first circuit board, wherein the first circuit board is a main circuit board comprising an electrical terminal, the electrical terminal is located at an output end of the redundant power supply and is inserted into the connection slot of the casing;
the second circuit board, wherein the second circuit board is a standby power supply circuit board; and
the third circuit board, wherein the third circuit board is a second power management bus circuit board, and the third circuit board is electrically connected to the first power management bus circuit board disposed in the casing.

10. The redundant power supply as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising:
a fan disposed outside the second body and located above the electrical terminal.

11. The redundant power supply as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising:
a heat sink disposed inside the second body and located at an input end of the redundant power supply.

Assignees

• Fsp Tech Inc

Inventors

• Chuang Tung-Jung
• Huang Cheng-Wen

Classifications

• G06F1/188 Primary

  Mounting of power supply units · CPC title

• G06F1/263

  Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC (G06F1/30 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/189 Primary

  Power distribution · CPC title

• G06F1/20

  Cooling means · CPC title

• H05K7/1427

  Housings · CPC title