Patent ID: 9104387
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: A47B,G06F,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A rack slide system comprising: an elongated supporting structure comprising a plurality of slide rails; a plurality of mobile racks mounted on the elongated supporting structure in a front-to-back relation for movement along a controlled path, a length of the path exceeding, by a predetermined amount, a sum of depths of the plurality of mobile racks to provide at least one gap between selected ones of the plurality of mobile racks, wherein the plurality of mobile racks is arranged to house electronic equipment having side-to-side airflow ventilation, wherein an individual respective one of the plurality of mobile racks has a front, a back, and two sides with side-to-side airflow ventilation and is oriented on the elongated supporting structure to enable an intake ventilation of the electronic equipment to receive air from a cold aisle and an exhaust ventilation of the electronic equipment to blow air out into a hot aisle; and an overhead cable management system with tension control to regulate an amount of slack in a network cable connected to the electronic equipment housed in one of the plurality of mobile racks, wherein the overhead cable management system provides to the one of the plurality of mobile racks a length of network cable that allows the one of the plurality of mobile racks to move any distance that does not exceed an entire mobile rack depth-length along the elongated supporting structure, wherein the overhead cable management system with tension control comprises a tension pulley that is spring loaded to regulate the slack in the network cable when tension is not being applied to the network cable by the one of the plurality of mobile racks, wherein a footprint of the at least one gap is equivalent to or greater than a footprint of the one of the plurality of mobile racks.