CN109582628B

CN109582628B - Server chassis and exempt from instrument hot plug and insert PCIE composite card module thereof

Info

Publication number: CN109582628B
Application number: CN201811583764.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 董建志
Original assignee: Guangdong Inspur Big Data Research Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Inspur Smart Computing Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-12-24
Filing date: 2018-12-24
Publication date: 2022-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 2038-12-24
Also published as: CN109582628A

Abstract

The invention discloses a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of a server case, which comprises a disassembly and assembly supporting shell arranged in a box body, a PCIE board card movably arranged on the disassembly and assembly supporting shell, and an operating mechanism arranged on the disassembly and assembly supporting shell and used for driving the PCIE board card to vertically move on the disassembly and assembly supporting shell. When the PCIE board card needs to be installed or disassembled, an operator only needs to correspondingly operate an operating mechanism on the PCIE composite card module, so that the PCIE board card can vertically move up and down on the dismounting support shell, and hot plugging operation of the PCIE board card and the PCIE slot is achieved. The invention can realize the hot plug of the PCIE board card only by the structural component of the PCIE composite card module, thereby simply and conveniently realizing the hot plug operation of the PCIE card, reducing the requirement on the operation space in the case and improving the hot plug operation efficiency. The invention also discloses a server case, which has the beneficial effects as described above.

Description

Server chassis and exempt from instrument hot plug and insert PCIE composite card module thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of PCIE cards, in particular to a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of a server case. The invention also relates to a server chassis.

Background

With the development of the electronic technology in China, more and more electronic devices have been widely used.

Servers are important components in electronic devices, and are devices that provide computing services. Since the server needs to respond to and process the service request, the server generally has the capability of assuming and securing the service. The server is divided into a file server, a database server, an application server, a WEB server and the like according to different service types provided by the server. The main components of the server include a processor, a hard disk, a memory, a system bus, etc., and are similar to a general-purpose computer architecture, but the server is required to have high processing capability, stability, reliability, security, expandability, manageability, etc., because it needs to provide highly reliable services.

In the big data era, a large number of IT devices are centrally located in a data center. These data centers include various types of servers, storage, switches, and a large number of cabinets and other infrastructure. Each type of IT equipment is composed of various hardware boards, such as a computing module, a memory module, a chassis, a fan module, and the like.

Nowadays, servers and storage devices are more and more advanced, and in order to ensure the continuity and integrity of interactive data, the servers of a data center generally run continuously for 24 hours all day long, wherein part of the servers must continue to run until the end of the service life as long as the servers are started. In the case of long-term operation, there is always a case where some components are broken or damaged on the server, and therefore, the server needs to be frequently maintained. Even during maintenance, the server cannot be powered off, thus requiring that important elements in the server be able to perform hot-plug operations.

A PCIE card is a common component in a server, which often needs to be detached and installed in a hot-plug manner. Currently, a hot-plug operation for a PCIE card is usually completed by using external moving parts, such as various hardware tools. However, the internal space of the server chassis is narrow, the structural members are complicated, the installation density of components such as the PCIE board or other storage devices is very high, and often, there is not enough space in the chassis for external moving parts, and the hot plug operation of the PCIE card is very troublesome and the efficiency is very low.

Therefore, how to simply and conveniently implement the hot-plug operation on the PCIE card, reduce the requirement for the operating space in the chassis, and improve the hot-plug operation efficiency is a technical problem to be solved urgently by those skilled in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of a server chassis, which can simply and conveniently realize the hot-plug operation of a PCIE card, reduce the requirement on the operation space in the chassis and improve the hot-plug operation efficiency. Another object of the present invention is to provide a server chassis.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of a server chassis, which includes a disassembly and assembly support shell arranged in a box body, a PCIE board movably arranged on the disassembly and assembly support shell, and an operating mechanism arranged on the disassembly and assembly support shell and used for driving the PCIE board to vertically move on the disassembly and assembly support shell.

Preferably, the operating mechanism includes a swing rod which is rotatably arranged on the surface of the dismounting support shell and swings in the vertical plane, and the tail end of the swing rod is connected to the tail end of the PCIE board card.

Preferably, the intermediate portion of pendulum rod is equipped with the through-hole separately, the dismouting support shell on the surface with the position department that the through-hole corresponds has seted up vertical slide opening, install the fastener in the through-hole, just the fastener runs through detachably connects behind the vertical slide opening on the PCEI integrated circuit board.

Preferably, a pressing piece for pressing the tail end of the swing rod to guide the vertical movement of the swing rod is arranged on the surface of the dismounting supporting shell.

Preferably, the top of the tail end of the swing rod is connected with a pulling handle convenient for a hand to apply force vertically.

Preferably, the bottom of the tail end of the swing rod is connected with an arch piece which is used for semi-wrapping a fixing bolt at the tail end of the PCIE board card so as to drive the PCIE board card to move vertically.

Preferably, the top of the dismounting support shell is provided with an elastic shifting piece used for horizontally shifting the PCIE board card to enable the fixing bolt to be separated from the arched piece.

The invention also provides a server case, which comprises a case body and the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module arranged in the case body, wherein the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module is specifically any one of the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card modules.

The tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of the server case mainly comprises a dismounting support shell, a PCIE board card and an operating mechanism. Wherein, the dismouting support shell sets up in quick-witted incasement, mainly used is as the dismouting platform of PCIE integrated circuit board. The PCIE board card is installed in the dismounting support shell to form a composite structure with the dismounting support shell, the dismounting support shell is similar to a back plate of the PCIE board card, and the PCIE board card can move on the dismounting support shell. Operating device sets up on the dismouting supports the shell, mainly used drives the PCIE integrated circuit board through the staff operation and carries out vertical motion on the dismouting supports the shell. Therefore, when the PCIE board card needs to be installed or disassembled, an operator only needs to correspondingly operate an operating mechanism on the PCIE composite card module, the PCIE board card can vertically move up and down on the dismounting support shell, and hot plugging operation of the PCIE board card and the PCIE slot is achieved. Compared with the prior art, the hot plug and unplug operation of the PCIE board card can be realized only by using the structural member of the PCIE composite card module without performing related operation on the PCIE board card by using external movable parts, so that the hot plug and unplug operation of the PCIE board card can be simply and conveniently realized, the requirement on the operation space in a case is reduced, and the hot plug and unplugging operation efficiency is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hot-plug status of a PCIE board in an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a hot-plug state of a PCEI board in an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, in fig. 1-2:

the assembling and disassembling support comprises a supporting shell-1, a vertical sliding hole-101, a PCIE board card-2, a swing rod-3, a through hole-301, a pulling handle-302, an arch sheet-303, a fastener-4, a pressing sheet-5, a fixing bolt-6, an elastic shifting sheet-7 and a rotating shaft-8.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a hot-plug status of a PCIE board 2 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a hot-plug status of a PCIE board according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In a specific embodiment provided by the present invention, a tool-free hot-pluggable PCIE composite card module of a server chassis mainly includes a disassembly and assembly support shell 1, a PCIE board 2, and an operation mechanism.

Wherein, dismouting support shell 1 sets up in the quick-witted incasement, mainly used as the dismouting platform of PCIE integrated circuit board 2. The PCIE board 2 is installed in the detachable support case 1, and forms a composite structure with the detachable support case, the detachable support case 1 is similar to a backplane of the PCIE board 2, and the PCIE board 2 can move on the detachable support case 1.

Operating device sets up on dismouting support shell 1, mainly used drives PCIE integrated circuit board 2 through the operation of staff and carries out vertical motion on dismouting support shell 1. So, when needing to install or dismantle the operation to PCIE integrated circuit board 2, operating personnel only need to correspond the operation to the operating device on the PCIE composite card module, can make PCIE integrated circuit board 2 carry out vertical elevating movement on dismouting support shell 1, and then realize the hot plug operation of PCIE integrated circuit board 2 and PCIE slot.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment does not need to carry out related operation on the PCIE board 2 by means of external movable parts, and the hot plug of the PCIE board 2 can be realized only by means of the structural member of the PCIE composite card module itself, so that the hot plug and the hot plug operation on the PCIE card can be realized simply and conveniently, the requirement on the operating space in the chassis is reduced, and the hot plug operating efficiency is improved.

In a preferred embodiment with respect to the operating mechanism, the operating mechanism essentially comprises a pendulum 3. Specifically, one end of the swing rod 3 is rotatably arranged on the surface of the dismounting supporting shell 1 and can swing in a vertical plane in the rotating process. Generally, one end of the swing rod 3 can be connected to the detachable supporting shell 1 through a rotating shaft 8. Meanwhile, the tail end of the swing rod 3 is connected to the tail end of the PCIE board card 2. Therefore, when the swing rod 3 is pulled to swing upwards, the PCIE board 2 can be gradually and vertically pulled out from the PCIE slot through the connection between the tail end of the swing rod and the PCIE board 2, and as long as the swing amplitude is large enough, the PCIE board 2 can be completely pulled out from the PCIE slot. On the contrary, the PCIE board card 2 can be vertically inserted into the PCIE slot only by pulling the swing rod 3 to swing outwards.

Further, in order to improve the convenience and stability of the operation of inserting and pulling the PCIE board 2 and the PCIE slot through the swing link 3, in this embodiment, a through hole 301 is formed in the middle portion of the swing link 3, and a vertical sliding hole 101 is formed in a position corresponding to the through hole 301 on the surface of the dismounting support shell 1. The through hole 301 is provided with a fastening member 4, and the end of the fastening member 4 penetrates through the vertical sliding hole 101 and is detachably connected with the surface (or the back) of the PCIE board 2. Specifically, the through hole 301 may be a threaded hole, the fastening member 4 may be a bolt, and the vertical sliding hole 101 may be an oblong hole, so that the bolt can slide in the vertical sliding hole 101 after being in threaded connection with the through hole 301. So, when pulling pendulum rod 3 so that its luffing motion, not only can carry out the application of force to it at PCIE integrated circuit board 2's end, can also drive PCIE integrated circuit board 2 simultaneously through fastener 4 that the 3 middle parts of pendulum rod set up and carry out synchronous vertical motion, more laborsaving and smooth to the dismouting operation of PCIE integrated circuit board 2.

It should be noted that, because the requirement on the pulling stroke of the swing link 3 for the dismounting operation of the PCIE board 2 is not high, the circumferential motion of the PCIE board 2 itself and the fastening member 4 can be considered as vertical lifting motion, and similarly, the arc design may also be omitted for the vertical sliding hole 101. For the oscillating rod 3, when oscillating, the stroke change of the tail end of the oscillating rod is the largest, so as to ensure that the oscillating rod can smoothly drive the PCIE board 2 to perform vertical lifting motion, and prevent motion interference, the tail end of the oscillating rod 3 may have elasticity, for example, the tail end of the oscillating rod 3 is an elastic sheet.

Connect the aforesaid, because the terminal movement stroke of pendulum rod 3 is the biggest, the influence of external factors such as mechanical vibration is also accumulated prominently here most easily, for preventing that the staff from the in-process that pulls pendulum rod 3 from appearing that pendulum rod 3 transversely is in disorder shaken, the wobbling condition, this embodiment has set up compressing tablet 5 in the position department that is close to the pendulum rod 3 end on the surface of dismouting support shell 1. Specifically, the pressing piece 5 is concave, and is reversely buckled on the surface of the detachable support housing 1, and both ends thereof are connected to the surface of the detachable support housing 1, and a narrow space is formed between the middle portion and the surface of the detachable support housing 1. Therefore, the tail end of the swing rod 3 can penetrate through a narrow space between the pressing sheet 5 and the surface of the dismounting supporting shell 1, and the horizontal movement of the swing rod 3 is limited through the proper pretightening force applied to the pressing sheet 5, so that the guiding effect in the vertical direction is formed.

In order to facilitate the operator to pull the swing rod 3 to apply force, the top of the end of the swing rod 3 is connected with a pulling handle 302 for facilitating the manual hand to apply force vertically. Specifically, the overall shape of the pulling handle 302 may be "concave", and the groove portion thereof may allow the fingers of the operator to be buckled therein, so as to facilitate vertical pulling upward, thereby pulling up the PCIE board 2. On the contrary, the surface part of the back of the groove of the pulling handle 302 can be conveniently pressed by an operator, so that the vertical pressing is convenient, and the PCIE board 2 is inserted into the PCIE slot. Meanwhile, a protruding limiting portion is generally disposed at the top end of the detachable support housing 1, so as to limit the maximum pulling height or the maximum pulling rotation angle of the pulling handle 302, and meanwhile, the detachable support housing can be used to abut against the pulling handle 302 during pulling operation, so as to provide a fulcrum for an operator to apply force.

Further, for making the pendulum rod 3 can be smooth, transmit the power that operating personnel exerted on to the PCIE integrated circuit board 2 steadily, this embodiment has connected arch piece 303 in the terminal bottom of pendulum rod 3, and this arch piece 303 mainly used links to each other with fixing bolt 6 that sets up on the PCIE integrated circuit board 2 tail end, forms half wrapping up the gesture to it to make the pendulum rod 3 can drive this fixing bolt 6 smoothly and carry out vertical motion, do not hinder this fixing bolt 6 at horizontal ascending one-way motion simultaneously. This fixing bolt 6 mainly used fixes PCIE integrated circuit board 2 on dismouting supporting shell 1, avoids because factors such as mechanical vibration lead to the golden finger to break away from the PCIE slot. Specifically, the arcuate piece 303 has a half-moon shape or a semicircular shape, and clamps the semicircular portion of the fixing bolt 6 from the lateral direction. After the fixing bolt 6 is unscrewed and unlocked, the PCIE board card 2 can be driven to vertically lift and move by the pulling pressure of the fixing bolt 6.

Furthermore, if the PCIE board 2 is to be completely removed, the fixing bolt 6 at the end of the PCIE board 2 is required to be completely separated from the arched piece 303. For this purpose, the present embodiment provides an elastic pick 7 at the top of the detachable support housing 1. Generally, the elastic shifting piece 7 is tightly attached to the surface of the detachable support shell 1, and after the PCIE board 2 and the detachable support shell 1 are assembled, the back surface of the PCIE board 2 compresses an energy storage portion at the end of the elastic shifting piece 7, so that the end portion of the elastic shifting piece 7 stores elastic potential energy. When the swing rod 3 is pulled to the right position by an angle and the PCIE board card 2 is vertically pulled out to the right position by a distance, the operator can pull the elastic shifting piece 7 at the moment, so that the accumulated elastic potential energy is released by the energy storage part at the tail end of the elastic shifting piece 7, the PCIE board card 2 is bounced, and the operator can conveniently pull out the PCIE board card 2 integrally from the dismounting support shell 1. Of course, the elastic expansion and contraction direction of the elastic shifting piece 7 is parallel to the direction of the notch of the arched piece 303.

This embodiment further provides a server chassis, which mainly includes a box body and a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module disposed in the box body, where the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module is the same as the above related contents, and is not described here again.

The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of a server case is characterized by comprising a dismounting support shell (1) arranged in a box body, a PCIE board card (2) movably arranged on the dismounting support shell (1), and an operating mechanism arranged on the dismounting support shell (1) and used for driving the PCIE board card (2) to vertically move on the dismounting support shell (1);

the operating mechanism comprises a swing rod (3) which is rotatably arranged on the surface of the dismounting support shell (1) and swings in a vertical plane, and the tail end of the swing rod (3) is connected with the tail end of the PCIE board card (2);

a through hole (301) is formed in the middle of the swing rod (3), a vertical sliding hole (101) is formed in the surface of the dismounting supporting shell (1) at a position corresponding to the through hole, a fastening piece (4) is installed in the through hole (301), and the fastening piece (4) penetrates through the vertical sliding hole (101) and then is detachably connected to the PCIE board card (2);

a pressing sheet (5) for pressing the tail end of the swing rod (3) to guide the vertical movement of the swing rod is arranged on the surface of the dismounting supporting shell (1);

the top of the tail end of the swing rod (3) is connected with a pulling handle (302) which is convenient for a human hand to apply force vertically;

the bottom of the tail end of the swing rod (3) is connected with an arch sheet (303) which is used for semi-wrapping a fixing bolt (6) at the tail end of the PCIE board card (2) so as to drive the fixing bolt to vertically move;

the top of the dismounting supporting shell (1) is provided with an elastic shifting sheet (7) which is used for horizontally shifting the PCIE board card (2) so as to enable the fixing bolt (6) to be separated from the arched sheet (303).

2. A server case comprises a case body and a tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module arranged in the case body, and is characterized in that the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module is specifically the tool-free hot-plug PCIE composite card module of claim 1.