Patent ID: 8360833

Claim:
An air containment cooling system for containing air between two rows of equipment racks, the air containment cooling system comprising: a canopy assembly configured to enclose a hot aisle defined by two rows of equipment racks; a cooling system embedded within the canopy assembly, the cooling system being configured to cool air disposed within the hot aisle, the cooling system including a heat exchanger, a mounting plate being one of coupled to and formed integral with the canopy assembly and having a fan air hole defined therein, and a fan assembly configured to move air to the heat exchanger through the fan air hole, the fan assembly being releasably mounted on the mounting plate, the fan assembly including: a fan unit having a fan and a motor; a mounting ring configured to mount the fan unit thereon and to position a surface of the fan unit proximate the fan air hole, the mounting ring being rotatably secured to the mounting plate and having a first interconnect comprising a flexible locking flange configured to be secured to a second interconnect comprising a recess formed in the mounting plate to secure the mounting ring to the mounting plate about the fan air hole; and an alignment post coupled to the mounting ring and configured to pass through a slot formed in the mounting plate and to slide a floating mating connector coupled to the slot in the mounting plate into alignment with an electrical connector on the mounting ring.