| CPC H05K 7/20272 (2013.01) [H05K 7/20772 (2013.01); H05K 7/20781 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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20. A method of connecting two fluid connectors of a liquid cooling loop of a server with two corresponding fluid connectors of a rack housing the server, comprising:
guiding the two fluid connectors of the server through a connector channel of a first component of a hardware at two opposite positions along the connector channel, the connector channel having a pair of springing structures each situated at one of two opposite ends of the connector channel to apply an inward force on the two fluid connectors toward each other;
attaching the first component to a second component of the hardware, the second component including a plurality of positioning holes located around a perimeter of the second component, an elastic layer that traverses in a vertical direction of the second component, and a pair of positioning parts used to compress the elastic layer to change a width of the second component in a horizontal direction;
rotating the first component around a rotation axis with respect to the second component to mount the two fluid connectors of the server into two of the positioning holes on opposite edges of the second component using the inward force applied by the pair of springing structures to adjust a relative distance in the vertical direction between the two fluid connectors of the server to match a relative distance in the vertical direction between the two corresponding fluid connectors of the rack;
attaching the pair of positioning parts to the rack to compress the elastic layer to automatically adjust a relative distance in the horizontal direction between the two fluid connectors of the server to match a relative distance in the horizontal direction between the two corresponding fluid connectors of the rack; and
connecting the two fluid connectors of the server to the two corresponding fluid connectors of the rack using a blind-mating connection.
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