US 12,484,182 B2
Rack front-to-rear cable routing system
Victor Teeter, Round Rock, TX (US); Shree Rathinasamy, Round Rock, TX (US); and James C. Slaughter, Georgetown, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/471,681.
Application 18/471,681 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/899,680, filed on Aug. 31, 2022, granted, now 11,924,992.
Prior Publication US 2024/0074084 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 7/14 (2006.01); H05K 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/1491 (2013.01) [H05K 7/183 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rack front-to-rear cable routing system, comprising:
a rack that defines a rack entrance and a rack exit;
a plurality of computing device housings that are defined by the rack between the rack entrance and the rack exit and that each provide an at least one rack unit (1RU) housing adjacent a respective mounting system on the rack that is configured to support a computing device in that computing device housing;
a rack front-to-rear cable routing device positioned in one of the plurality of computing device housings via the respective mounting system adjacent that computing device housing, wherein the rack front-to-rear cable routing device defines a plurality of protected cable conduits that extend between the rack entrance to the rack exit;
a plurality of computing devices that are each positioned in a respective computing device housing included in the plurality of computing device housings via the respective mounting system adjacent that computing device housing; and
a first cable that is coupled to each of the plurality of computing devices and that extends through a first protected cable conduit included in the plurality of protected cable conduits defined by the rack front-to-rear cable routing device.