US 12,250,784 B2
Equipment locking device
Chia-Ching Huang, Taipei (TW); Kevin Buana, Taoyuan (TW); and Anand Avinash Kulkarni, Sammamish, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/085,364.
Prior Publication US 2024/0206100 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/1415 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An equipment locking device for locking equipment within a rack, comprising:
an equipment locking mechanism connected to the equipment, the equipment locking mechanism having an unlocked state and a locked state; and
a trigger transitioning between a set state and a tripped state, the trigger connected to the equipment locking mechanism such that in the set state, the trigger retains the equipment locking mechanism in the unlocked state wherein a retraction bar is wedged into an auto-ejector that keeps the equipment locking mechanism unbiased relative to the rack and such that, as the trigger transitions from the set state to the tripped state, the trigger transitions the equipment locking mechanism from the unlocked state to the locked state upon contacting a portion of the rack wherein the retraction bar is unwedged from the auto-ejector allowing the equipment locking mechanism to become biased toward the locked state.