Patent ID: 7724529
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk array system provided with a group of storage devices and a controller for controlling these devices, the disk array system comprising: a basic chassis having openings in front and rear surfaces thereof and a backboard fixed at a midpoint in an interior of the basic chassis; a first plurality of storage device modules and a first plurality of object modules as modules installed by insertion/removal and fixation to a front part and a rear part of the backboard in the basic chassis, the first plurality of object modules including two duplicated battery modules, two duplicated controller modules, and a first two duplicated power source modules; an expanded chassis which is electrically connected to the basic chassis and has openings in front and rear surfaces thereof and a backboard fixed at a midpoint in an interior of the expanded chassis; and a second plurality of storage device modules and a second plurality of object modules as modules installed by insertion/removal and fixation to a front part and a rear part of the backboard in the expanded chassis, the second plurality of object modules including two duplicated enclosure modules and a second two duplicated power source modules, wherein first the plurality of storage device modules and the two battery modules are installed to the front part of the backboard in the basic chassis and the two controller modules and the first two power source modules are installed to the rear part of the backboard in the basic chassis, wherein each object module of the first plurality of object modules is provided with a common operating structure for operations of insertion/removal and fixation thereof, wherein the operating structure of each object module of the first plurality of object modules is a lever structure using the principle of leverage that includes a rotary shaft portion that is fixed to the object module and serves as a fulcrum point, a lever main body located on one side of the rotary shaft portion, a latch portion connected to the lever main body and containing no screw part, and a hook portion located on the other side of the rotary shaft portion, such that when each object module of the first plurality of object modules is inserted and fixed, by an action of rotating the lever main body of the operating structure of the object module and pressing the latch portion, the latch portion is fixed to a receiving portion of the object module or a receiving portion of the basic chassis, the hook portion is fixed to the receiving portion of the basic chassis, and a connector on a rear surface of the object module and a connector on the backboard in the basic chassis are connected to each other, wherein the second plurality of storage device modules are installed to the front part of the backboard in the expanded chassis and the two enclosure modules and the second two power source modules are installed to the rear part of the backboard in the expanded chassis, wherein each object module of the second plurality of object modules is provided with a common operating structure for operations of insertion/removal and fixation thereof, wherein each power source module of the first and second pluralities of object modules has a power source cable connector, to which a power source cable is configured to connect, in a module front surface, and wherein each power source module of the first and second pluralities of object modules has a first safety component having a mechanism by which the operating structure of the power source module is brought into a fixed state when the power source cable is connected to the power source cable connector and the fixed state of the operating structure is released when the power source cable is removed from the power source cable connector provided at a position between the operating structure and the power source cable connector of the power source module.