CN107219903A - A kind of cantilever arm, equipment and system with extension wire area - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an extension arm, equipment and system with extended wiring area, the extension arm is connected with the external equipment main body, the extension arm includes at least one layer of wiring area, and each layer of wiring area is provided with at least An extension arm connection terminal; meanwhile, each extension arm connection terminal is connected with the equipment main board included in the equipment main body through the internal wiring of the extension arm. Based on the connection terminal on the extension arm connected to the device main body, the problem of lack of contact terminals on the device main body can be solved, and the connection of the extension arm does not need to increase the height of the device main body. Therefore, this solution can improve the space utilization rate of the equipment.

Description

An extended arm, device and system with extended wiring area

technical field

The invention relates to the field of computer technology, in particular to a device and system with an extended arm and an extended wiring area.

Background technique

With the rapid development of the electronic information industry, there are more and more applications of data centers. Electronic equipment in the data center, such as rack-mounted equipment, usually has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, so the terminals can be arranged on the front panel and the rear panel of the equipment.

At present, when the number of connection terminals of the equipment needs to be increased, it can be solved by increasing the height of the equipment.

However, an increase in equipment height generally reduces the space utilization of the equipment. For example, an increase in the height of the rack-mounted equipment will cause a waste of space in the cabinet.

Contents of the invention

The invention provides a device and a system with an extended arm and an extended wiring area, which can improve the space utilization rate of the device.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:

In a first aspect, the present invention provides an extension arm connected to an external device body, comprising:

At least one layer of wiring area, wherein at least one extension arm terminal is arranged in each layer of wiring area;

Each of the extending arm terminals is connected to the device main board included in the device main body through the internal wiring of the extending arm.

Further, for any one layer wiring area in the at least one layer wiring area, the layer wiring area includes a first wiring side and a second wiring side,

Wherein, the layout of at least one extension arm terminal provided in the wiring area of this layer is: respectively arranged on the first wiring side, respectively arranged on the second wiring side, respectively arranged on the first wiring side and any one of the second wiring sides.

Further, the number of layers of the at least one wiring region is 1, and the shape of the extending arm is "U".

Further, the extension arm also includes: an external routing area, an internal routing area, and a cable management area for the main body;

The external wiring area includes a wiring opening and a wiring outlet;

Wherein, the wiring opening is set at the connection position between the external wiring area and the cable management area of the main body;

The main body cable management area is used to store the beginning of the lead-out line of each main body terminal on the device main body, and the end of the lead-out line passes through the wiring opening, the external wiring area and the Lead out from the outlet port;

The internal routing area is used to store the internal wiring of the extension arm.

Further, the extension arm also includes: sheet metal parts;

The sheet metal part is arranged at the connecting position of the outer wiring area and the inner wiring area.

In a second aspect, the present invention provides a device with an extended wiring area, comprising:

any one of the extension arms described above, and, the device main body connected to the extension arm;

The main body of the device includes a main board of the device.

Further, the device with an extended wiring area further includes: a cover plate corresponding to the extension arm, used to correspondingly cover the upper part of the extension arm;

The cover plate is an integral structure.

Further, the main body of the device is a rack-mounted device;

The rack-mounted equipment includes a rear panel provided with at least one terminal at the tail of the main body;

The extension arm is a tail extension arm located on one side of the rear panel.

Further, the main body of the device is a rack-mounted device;

The rack-mounted equipment includes a front panel provided with at least one main body head terminal;

The extension arm is a head extension arm located on one side of the front panel.

In a third aspect, the present invention provides a system with an extended wiring area, comprising:

At least one of the above-mentioned equipment with extended wiring area, and the cabinet;

The cabinet includes at least one layer of shelves;

The racks on each layer are used to fix any of the devices with extended wiring areas.

Further, the storage rack is a tray or a guide rail set.

Further, the system with extended wiring area also includes: a horizontal cable manager;

For each of the extension arm terminals on the extension arm and each of the main body terminals on the device body, the horizontal wire manager is used to store the end of the lead wire of each of the extension arm terminals and the end of each lead-out wire of the body terminal block.

The present invention provides an extension arm, equipment and system with extended wiring area, the extension arm is connected with the external equipment main body, the extension arm includes at least one layer of wiring area, and each layer of wiring area is provided with at least An extension arm connection terminal; meanwhile, each extension arm connection terminal is connected with the equipment main board included in the equipment main body through the internal wiring of the extension arm. Based on the connection terminal on the extension arm connected to the device main body, the problem of lack of contact terminals on the device main body can be solved, and the connection of the extension arm does not need to increase the height of the device main body. Therefore, the present invention can improve the space utilization rate of the equipment.

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description are For some embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art can also obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative work.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an extension arm provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of another extension arm provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of another extension arm provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a device with an extended wiring area provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic perspective view of another device with an extended wiring area provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a schematic perspective view of a tail extension arm provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a system with an extended wiring area provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

In order to make the purpose, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments It is a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all of them. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative work belong to the protection of the present invention. scope.

As shown in Figure 1, the embodiment of the present invention provides an extension arm, which is connected to the external device main body and may include:

At least one layer of wiring area 101, wherein at least one extension arm terminal 1011 is arranged in each layer of wiring area 101;

Each of the extending arm terminals 1011 is connected to the main board of the device included in the device main body through the internal wiring of the extending arm.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an extension arm, the extension arm is connected to an external device main body, the extension arm includes at least one layer of wiring areas, and each layer of wiring areas is provided with at least one extension arm connection terminal; At the same time, each extension arm connecting terminal is connected with the equipment main board included in the equipment main body through the internal wiring of the extension arm. Based on the connection terminal on the extension arm connected to the device main body, the problem of lack of contact terminals on the device main body can be solved, and the connection of the extension arm does not need to increase the height of the device main body. Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention can improve the space utilization rate of the device.

In an embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 2, for a possible wiring terminal layout, so, for any one layer wiring area 101 in the at least one layer wiring area 101, the layer wiring area 101 includes a first wiring side and a second wiring side,

Wherein, the layout of at least one arm terminal 1011 provided in the wiring area 101 of this layer is: respectively arranged on the first wiring side, respectively arranged on the second wiring side, respectively arranged on the first Any one of the wiring side and the second wiring side.

As shown in Figure 2, based on the main body of the device, from near to far, the extension arm includes three layers of wiring areas, which are the first layer wiring area, the second layer wiring area, and the third layer wiring area. For any layer of wiring area, the side of the wiring area close to the device main body can be its first wiring side, and the side away from the device main body can be its second wiring side.

In this way, as shown in Figure 2, three extension arm terminals are arranged in the wiring area of the first layer, and they are all arranged on the first wiring side; three extension arm terminals are arranged in the second layer wiring area, and They are all arranged on the second connection side; 6 extension arm connection terminals are arranged in the third layer connection area, and 3 extension arm connection terminals are respectively arranged on the first connection side and the second connection side. Wherein, each extension arm terminal is connected to the main board of the device through the internal connection of the extension arm, so that these extension arm terminals can be used as an extended connection terminal, and have the same wiring capacity as the original terminal on the main body of the device. Therefore, it can be used by the main body of the device.

In one embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 3 , the number of layers of the at least one wiring region is 1, and the shape of the extending arm is "U".

As shown in Figure 3, the extension arm connected to the main body of the device includes a layer of wiring area, and the shape of the extension arm can be a "U" shape, that is, points A, B, M, L, H, K , F, C, and A may be in the shape of a "U".

In detail, the area composed of points F, G, M, K, and F in turn may be a wiring area. As shown in FIG. 3 , there are 7 extension arm wiring terminals arranged in the wiring area.

In Fig. 3, it can be seen that there are 7 main body terminals on the main body of the device, and 7 extension arm terminals are provided on the extension arm, and the 7 extension arm terminals are all connected through the extension arm. The line is connected to the main board of the device, and the specific line can be shown as a dotted line in FIG. 3 . When the staff needs to use the terminal, the main body terminal on the main body of the device can be used, and the extension arm terminal on the extension arm can also be used. Wherein, when these two types of terminal blocks are used, their connection wires, or lead wires, can be led out to the outside of the main body of the device and the extension arm, and the specific lines can be shown as the double-dot dashed lines in FIG. 3 .

In an embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 3 , in order to illustrate a possible internal cable management method of the extension arm, the extension arm also includes: an external wiring area, an internal wiring area, and a main line cable management area;

The external wiring area includes a wiring opening and a wiring outlet;

Wherein, the wiring opening is set at the connection position between the external wiring area and the cable management area of the main body;

The main body cable management area is used to store the beginning of the lead-out line of each main body terminal on the device main body, and the end of the lead-out line passes through the wiring opening, the external wiring area and the Lead out from the outlet port;

The internal routing area is used to store the internal wiring of the extension arm.

In one embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 3 , the area surrounded by points A, B, G, C, and A in turn may be an external wiring area; points F, G, M, L, H, The area enclosed by K and F may be an internal routing area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, please refer to Fig. 3, when using the main body connection terminal on the equipment main body, its lead-out line is more, in order to facilitate the orderly management of this part of lead-out line, can be between point D and point I, A baffle is provided between the point E and the point J, so that the starting end of this part of the lead-out line can be located in the area between the two baffles. Certainly, on the baffle between point D and point I, holes or openings for facilitating the lead wires to pass through the baffle need to be provided. In this way, the area surrounded by the points D, E, J, I, and D in turn can be the main cable management area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in order to facilitate the neat management of various cables in the extension arm, the outer routing area, inner routing area, and main cable management area of the extension arm are usually grooved.

Based on the above content, in order to facilitate the neat management of the lead-out wires of the main body terminals and to lead them to the outside, it is possible to set a wiring port at the connection position between the external wiring area and the main body cable management area. For example, please refer to FIG. 3 , the wiring opening can be set at the position connecting the point D and the point E. Correspondingly, a wire outlet can be set at the position connecting the point B and the point G. In this way, the lead-out wires of the main body terminal can be led out through the main body cable management area, the wiring opening, the external wiring area, and the wire outlet in turn, so that the staff can use the end of the lead-out wire, that is, use the main body terminal.

In an embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 3 , in order to illustrate a possible internal cable management method of the extension arm, the extension arm further includes: sheet metal parts;

The sheet metal part is arranged at the connecting position of the outer wiring area and the inner wiring area.

In detail, in order to facilitate the neat management of the internal wiring of the extension arm connected to each extension arm terminal and the lead-out wires connected to each main body connection terminal, the external wiring area can be isolated from the internal wiring area . In this way, please refer to FIG. 3 , a sheet metal part can be provided at the connection position between the external wiring area and the internal wiring area, that is, the line connecting point F and point G.

Based on the above content, please refer to FIG. 4 , an embodiment of the present invention provides a device with an extended wiring area, which may include: any of the extensions 401 described above, and the device connected to the extension arm 401 body 402;

The device main body 402 includes a device main board.

In detail, the extension arm and the main body of the device can be connected together as a whole to form a device with an extended wiring area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, please refer to Fig. 4, in order to facilitate the neat management of various lines inside the extension arm, and the overall convenience of use of the device with the extended wiring area, the device with the extended wiring area It also includes: a cover plate 403 corresponding to the extension arm 401, for correspondingly covering the upper part of the extension arm 401;

The cover plate 403 is an integral structure.

As shown in FIG. 4 , when the cover plate covers the upper part of the extension arm, various connections inside the extension arm can be blocked.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the main body of the device is a rack-mounted device;

The rack-mounted equipment includes a rear panel provided with at least one terminal at the tail of the main body;

The extension arm is a tail extension arm located on one side of the rear panel.

In detail, the rack-mounted equipment may include a front panel and a rear panel, and main body terminals may be arranged on both the front and rear panels. As shown in FIG. 4 , the extension arm in FIG. 4 is connected to one side of the rear panel of the rack-mounted equipment, so the extension arm can be extended from the tail.

Correspondingly, in one embodiment of the present invention, the device main body is a rack-mounted device;

The rack-mounted equipment includes a front panel provided with at least one main body head terminal;

The extension arm is a head extension arm located on one side of the front panel.

Based on the above, in one embodiment of the present invention, according to actual needs, when the number of contact terminals to be extended is large, the same rack-mounted device can also be connected to a rear extension arm and a head extension arm at the same time.

Of course, since the number of layers of the wiring area included in the extension arm can be more than one layer, when the number of contact terminals that need to be expanded is large, and the main body of the device is inconvenient to connect two extension arms at the same time, a multi-layer connection can also be used. The extension arm in the wiring area connects to the main body of the device.

In summary, as shown in FIG. 5 , in one embodiment of the present invention, a device with an extended wiring area is provided, which may include: a device main body 501 , a tail extension arm 502 , and a cover plate 503 ;

The tail extension arm 502 includes a layer of wiring area, wherein seven extension arm connection terminals 5021 are arranged in the layer wiring area, and each extension arm connection terminal 5021 is connected to the main body of the device through the internal connection of the extension arm. The main board of the equipment included in 501 is connected;

The tail extension arm 502 also includes an external routing area 5022, an internal routing area 5023, a main body cable management area 5024, and sheet metal parts 5025;

The external wiring area 5022 includes a wiring opening 50221 and a wiring opening 50222;

Wherein, the wiring opening 50221 is set at the connection position between the external wiring area 5022 and the main body cable management area 5024;

The main body cable management area 5024 is used to store the beginning of the lead-out line of each main body connection terminal 5011 on the device main body 501, and the end of the lead-out line passes through the wiring opening 50221, the external wiring area 5022 and the wiring opening 50222 successively. elicit;

The internal wiring area 5023 is used to store the internal wiring of the extension arm;

The sheet metal part 5025 is disposed at the connection position between the outer wiring area 5022 and the inner wiring area 5023 .

In detail, in an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 5 may be an exploded view of the device shown in FIG. 4 above.

It can be seen from FIG. 5 that the tail extension arm shown in FIG. 5 includes a wiring area of one layer, and seven extension arm connection terminals are arranged in the wiring area. The rear panel of the main body of the device is provided with several main body tail connection terminals. The rear extension arm is connected to the rear panel position of the main body of the device.

Each extension arm connecting terminal is connected with the equipment main board in the main body of the equipment through the internal wiring of the extension arm, and the equipment main board is not shown in FIG. 5 . The extension arm internal wiring is located in the internal routing area.

The lead-out wires of each main body connection terminal can be led out through the main body cable management area, the wiring opening, the external wiring area, and the wiring opening in sequence. This lead-out is not shown in FIG. 5 .

Meanwhile, please refer to FIG. 6 , which may be a schematic structural diagram of the tail extension arm in FIG. 5 . It can be seen from FIG. 6 that both the external routing area and the internal routing area of the extended arm at the tail can be grooved for storing corresponding cables. An opening, ie, a wiring opening, is provided on the inner wall of the external wiring area. The cable management area of the main body at the location of the cable opening can also be a groove shape composed of baffles on both sides, and the cable management area of the main body is not shown in FIG. 6 .

Please refer to FIG. 7 , an embodiment of the present invention provides a system with an extended wiring area, which may include: at least one device 701 with an extended wiring area described above, and a cabinet 702;

The cabinet 702 includes at least one shelf 7021;

The shelf 7021 on each layer is used to fix any of the devices 701 with an extended wiring area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the storage rack is a tray or a guide rail set.

As shown in FIG. 7 , the guide rail set provided in the cabinet can be used to support and fix a device with an extended wiring area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 7, the system with extended wiring area also includes: a horizontal cable organizer 703;

For each extension arm connection terminal on the extension arm and each main body connection terminal on the device main body, the horizontal wire organizer 703 is used to store the lead-out wires of each extension arm connection terminal ends and ends of each lead-out wire of the body terminal block.

In detail, the horizontal wire organizer can be arranged on one side of the extension arm, so as to facilitate the comprehensive management of the lead-out lines of each extension arm terminal on the extension arm and the lead-out lines of each main body connection terminal on the equipment main body, so as to facilitate Workers use the original main body connection terminals and the extension arm connection terminals expanded through the extension arms.

To sum up, when the main body of the device needs to increase the number of terminals, the main body of the device can be connected to the extension arm to expand the terminals. This way of extending the terminals will not increase the height of the main body of the device, so that the main body of the device can be increased, such as The space utilization rate of the rack-mounted equipment ensures the space utilization rate of the cabinet and increases the competitiveness of the product.

In summary, each embodiment of the present invention has at least the following beneficial effects:

1. In the embodiment of the present invention, an extension arm is provided. The extension arm is connected to the external device main body. The extension arm includes at least one layer of wiring area, and each layer of wiring area is provided with at least one extension arm. At the same time, each extension arm connection terminal is connected to the equipment main board included in the equipment main body through the internal wiring of the extension arm. Based on the connection terminal on the extension arm connected to the device main body, the problem of lack of contact terminals on the device main body can be solved, and the connection of the extension arm does not need to increase the height of the device main body. Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention can improve the space utilization rate of the device.

2. In the embodiment of the present invention, when the main body of the device needs to increase the number of terminals, the main body of the device can be connected to the extension arm to expand the terminals. This expansion method of the terminals will not increase the height of the main body of the device, thereby increasing the number of terminals. The main body, such as the space utilization rate of rack-mounted equipment, ensures the space utilization rate of the cabinet and increases the competitiveness of the product.

It should be noted that in this article, relational terms such as first and second are only used to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not necessarily require or imply that there is a relationship between these entities or operations. There is no such actual relationship or sequence. Furthermore, the term "comprises", "comprises" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article, or apparatus comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, but also includes elements not expressly listed. other elements of or also include elements inherent in such a process, method, article, or device. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional same elements in the process, method, article or apparatus comprising said element.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the steps to realize the above method embodiments can be completed by program instructions related hardware, and the aforementioned programs can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed, the It includes the steps of the above method embodiments; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: ROM, RAM, magnetic disk or optical disk and other various media that can store program codes.

Finally, it should be noted that the above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and are not used to limit the protection scope of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. a kind of cantilever arm, it is characterised in that be connected with outside equipment body, including：

At least one layer of wire area, wherein, at least one cantilever arm binding post is provided with each layer of wire area；

Each described cantilever arm binding post is by cantilever arm interconnector, the equipment master included with the equipment body Plate is connected.

2. cantilever arm according to claim 1, it is characterised in that

For any one layer of wire area at least one layer of wire area, this layer of wire area include the first connection side and Second connection side,

Wherein, the layout type of at least one cantilever arm binding post of setting is in this layer of wire area：It is respectively arranged at institute The first connection side is stated, second connection side is respectively arranged at, is respectively arranged at first connection side and second wiring Any one in side.

3. cantilever arm according to claim 1 or 2, it is characterised in that

The number of plies of at least one layer of wire area is 1, and the cantilever arm is shaped as " U " font.

4. cantilever arm according to claim 3, it is characterised in that

Also include：Outside cabling area, internal cabling area, main body cable management area；

Include cabling mouthful and line outlet in the outside cabling area；

Wherein, the cabling mouth is arranged at the link position in the outside cabling area and the main body cable management area；

The main body cable management area is used for the beginning for depositing the lead-out wire of each main body binding post on the equipment body Hold, and the end of the lead-out wire is drawn through the cabling mouthful, the outside cabling area and the line outlet successively；

The internal cabling area is used to deposit the cantilever arm interconnector.

5. cantilever arm according to claim 4, it is characterised in that

Also include：Sheet metal component；

The sheet metal component is arranged at the link position in the outside cabling area and the internal cabling area.

6. a kind of have the equipment for extending wire area, it is characterised in that including：

Cantilever arm as described in any in claim 1 to 5, and, the equipment body being connected with the cantilever arm；

Include equipment mainboard in the equipment body.

7. according to claim 6 have the equipment for extending wire area, it is characterised in that

Also include：The cover plate corresponding with the cantilever arm, the top of the cantilever arm is covered in for correspondence；

The cover plate is integral type structure.

8. the equipment with extension wire area according to claim 6 or 7, it is characterised in that the equipment body is Rack-mount unit；

The rack-mount unit includes the rear board for being provided with least one body tail section binding post；

The cantilever arm is the afterbody cantilever arm positioned at the rear board side；

Or,

The equipment body is rack-mount unit；

The rack-mount unit includes the front panel for being provided with least one body head binding post；

The cantilever arm is the head cantilever arm positioned at the front panel side.

9. a kind of have the system for extending wire area, it is characterised in that including：

At least one has the equipment for extending wire area, and rack as described in any in claim 6 to 8；

The rack includes at least one layer of rack；

Each layer rack is used to fix any equipment with extension wire area.

10. according to claim 9 have the system for extending wire area, it is characterised in that

The rack is pallet or set of rails；

And/or,

Also include：Horizontal line winder；

For each main body terminals on each cantilever arm binding post and the equipment body on the cantilever arm Son, the horizontal line winder is used for end and each the described master for depositing the lead-out wire of each cantilever arm binding post The end of the lead-out wire of body binding post.