US 11,924,993 B2
Auxiliary equipment for an electronic apparatus
Uwe Gröschner, Meiningen (DE); Henrik Beil, Meiningen (DE); Henrik Streve, Meiningen (DE); Falk Steiner, Meiningen (DE); and Frank König, Meiningen (DE)
Assigned to ADTRAN NETWORKS SE, Meiningen OT Dreissigacker (DE)
Filed by ADVA Optical Networking SE, Meiningen OT Dreissigacker (DE)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/236,737.
Claims priority of application No. 20172026 (EP), filed on Apr. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0345523 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01); H05K 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20209 (2013.01) [H05K 7/1492 (2013.01); H05K 7/183 (2013.01); H05K 7/20172 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
hardware equipment having hardware components enclosed by a chassis having a front side and a rear side, and
auxiliary equipment movable within the chassis along at least one transportation rail with a non-linear trajectory extending in horizontal plane between a first position at the front side of the chassis and a second position behind the hardware equipment at the rear side of the chassis,
wherein the hardware equipment comprises redundant hardware components being at least temporarily removable from the chassis to provide a free space that is made for moving the auxiliary equipment within the chassis along the at least one transportation rail between the first and second position,
wherein the movable auxiliary equipment is movable for replacement and/or maintenance of auxiliary devices during operation of the hardware equipment of the apparatus without interruption of the operation of the hardware equipment,
wherein the auxiliary devices form an auxiliary equipment train,
wherein the at least one transportation rail is equipped with a push/pull mechanism being adapted to push the auxiliary equipment train from the first position at the front side of the chassis into the second position behind the hardware equipment at the rear side of the chassis and being adapted to pull the auxiliary equipment train out from the second position to the first position,
wherein the auxiliary equipment train pulled out to the first position by the push/pull mechanism is removable in the first position from the at least one transportation rail of the apparatus,
wherein the push/pull mechanism of the at least one transportation rail comprises an electrical motor integrated in the chassis and adapted to move the auxiliary equipment train between the first and second position, and
wherein a controller configured to control the operation of the auxiliary devices of the auxiliary equipment train is adapted to control the electrical motor of the push/pull mechanism to move the auxiliary equipment train in response to a user input received via a user interface of the apparatus.