Patent ID: 9661787
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: F04D,H05K

Claim:
1. An equipment chassis, comprising: a rear-mountable fan tray assembly (FTA) having a plurality of fans configured into two or more horizontal rows, each row comprising one or more fans disposed in an FTA housing portion, wherein each FTA housing portion is coupled to an adjacent FTA housing portion in an articulated manner, a top FTA housing portion being provided with a pair of top guiding pins on respective vertical walls of the top FTA housing portion and a bottom FTA housing portion being provided with a pair of bottom guiding pins on respective vertical walls of the bottom FTA housing portion; a cantilevered pusher member having a frontend and a backend, wherein one or more handles are provided at the frontend and an insertion force applicator is provided at the backend that is coupled to the top FTA housing portion in an articulated manner; and a first slide guide plate vertically disposed relative to a first interior sidewall frame of the equipment chassis and coupled at a first vertical joint of a rear wall of the equipment chassis, the rear wall having an aperture operating as a vent for the plurality of fans, a second slide guide plate vertically disposed relative to a second interior sidewall frame of the equipment chassis and coupled at a second vertical joint of the rear wall of the equipment chassis, the first and second interior sidewall frames being substantially parallel to each other and forming at least a compartment of the equipment chassis, wherein the first and second slide guide plates are disposed facing each other and each slide guide plate is provided with dual slide tracking paths comprising a top curvilinear tracking path and a bottom curvilinear tracking path, the top curvilinear tracking paths of the first and second slide guide plates operating to engage the respective top guiding pins of the top FTA housing portion and the bottom curvilinear tracking paths of the first and second slide guide plates operating to engage the respective bottom guiding pins of the bottom FTA housing portion when the rear-mountable fan tray assembly is slidably inserted into the equipment chassis and pushed, using the cantilevered pusher member, from front to back of the equipment chassis by applying substantially horizontal force toward the rear wall, whereby the articulated FTA housing portions negotiate a curvilinear motion path from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation with minimal friction and, upon full insertion, are disposed vertically with insubstantial angular deviation relative to the rear wall of the equipment chassis.