US 12,222,779 B2
Partial-width rack-mounted computing devices
Peter George Ross, Olympia, WA (US); and Darin Lee Frink, Lake Tapps, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2015, as Appl. No. 14/809,009.
Application 14/809,009 is a continuation of application No. 13/311,231, filed on Dec. 5, 2011, granted, now 9,095,070, issued on Jul. 28, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2015/0331459 A1, Nov. 19, 2015
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 1/18 (2006.01); G11B 33/12 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/187 (2013.01) [G11B 33/128 (2013.01); H05K 7/1488 (2013.01); H05K 7/1489 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system, comprising:
a rack comprising a plurality of standard slots for computing devices, wherein the rack comprises a plurality of rack rails configured to separate two or more of the plurality of standard slots;
a shelf module mounted in the rack and coupled to at least one standard slot of the plurality of standard slots, the shelf module comprising a plurality of shelf slots configured to receive two or more computing devices within the at least one standard slot in a vertical arrangement, wherein individual ones of the plurality of shelf slots are separated by one or more shelf support rails;
a plurality of computing devices coupled to the shelf module within the at least one standard slot, each computing device of the plurality of the computing devices having a height that is greater than one rack unit and less than or equal to 1.5 rack-units, wherein a first shelf slot of the plurality of shelf slots is configured to receive a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices, wherein a second shelf slot of the plurality of shelf slots is configured to receive a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices above or below the first computing device in the shelf module, and each computing device comprising:
a chassis configured to be separately removable from other computing devices of the plurality of computing devices in the rack;
a circuit board assembly coupled to the chassis;
a processor coupled to the circuit board assembly; and
a plurality of storage devices within the chassis,
wherein a combined height of the first computing device in the first shelf slot and the second computing device in the second shelf slot is greater than 2 rack-units and less than or equal to 3 rack-units of vertical space.