US 12,262,471 B2
Dual-sided expansion card with offset slot alignment
Andrew Rudolph Heyd, Longmont, CO (US); Brenden M. Rust, Loveland, CO (US); Christopher R. Long, Colorado Springs, CO (US); Sumit Puri, Calabasas, CA (US); and Bryan Schramm, Broomfield, CO (US)
Assigned to Liqid Inc., Westminster, CO (US)
Filed by Liqid Inc., Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,190.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107671 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 1/00 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/14 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 1/142 (2013.01) [H05K 1/0201 (2013.01); H05K 7/2039 (2013.01); H05K 2201/066 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10159 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer peripheral device, comprising:
a heat sink member that establishes a skewed offset stackup between a primary circuit board and a secondary circuit board coupled thereto;
a circuit interconnect element configured to communicatively couple across the skewed offset stackup between the primary circuit board and the secondary circuit board;
the primary circuit board comprising an edge connector insertable into a slot connector of a host system and configured to carry host signaling for the computer peripheral device;
the secondary circuit board comprising a first set of data storage device connectors on a first side and a second set of data storage connectors on a second side;
subassembly connection features established on at least one among the heat sink member, the primary circuit board, and the secondary circuit board, and configured to couple to storage subassemblies that carry data storage devices;
a first storage subassembly coupled to a first portion of the subassembly connection features and configured to carry first data storage devices cantilevered from and connected into the first set of the data storage device connectors; and
a second storage subassembly coupled to a second portion of the subassembly connection features and configured to carry second data storage devices cantilevered from and connected into the second set of the data storage device connectors.