Alan Lee Winick, 69600 E Weddell Dr UNIT 214, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

7564696, Jul 21, 2009

Mar 1, 2006

11/366844

Alan L. Winick - Santa Clara CA, US
Michael T. Milo - Santa Clara CA, US
Steven T. Sprouse - Santa Clara CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

H05K 7/12

361801, 361759, 361732, 361747, 361726, 361755, 3122232

A bracket retainer is provided for securing an adapter card in a computer chassis in manner that maintains the electrical and the mechanical stability of the computer chassis and adapter card. This bracket retainer approach secures the adapter card to the computer chassis by utilizing a rotating door structure that allows the adapter card to be tightened into its card connector, as a rear tab of the adapter card, which is protruding through an opening of a rear panel of the computer chassis, is engaged by the rotating door structure. This bracket retainer approach also allows the bracket retainer to be secured to the computer chassis by interlocking the door structure with a top cover of the computer chassis.

7626826, Dec 1, 2009

Jan 31, 2007

11/700621

Thomas E. Stewart - San Diego CA, US
Mark H. Chen - Palo Alto CA, US
Alan L. Winick - Meadow Vista CA, US
Michael S. White - San Jose CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

H05K 5/00

361756, 361684, 361752, 361796

An expansion card carrier is disclosed, the expansion card carrier including a top portion for covering an expansion card, at least one side portion for supporting the top portion, and at least one pair of card guides for allowing an expansion card to slide along into the expansion card carrier. A method for assembling an expansion card carrier is also disclosed, the method including casting a panel including a top portion for covering an expansion card and at least one side portion for supporting the top portion, forming at least one side portion by deforming the panel, and attaching at least one pair of card guides inside the expansion card carrier for allowing an expansion card to slide along into the expansion card carrier.

7892019, Feb 22, 2011

Nov 5, 2008

12/265517

Deepak Rao - Fremont CA, US
Alan L. Winick - Meadow Vista CA, US
Gurpreet S. Dayal - Fremont CA, US

Oracle America, Inc. - Redwood City CA

H01R 12/24

439492

A SAS panel mount cable assembly for providing access of target hard-drive resources to an initiator-host includes an initiator-side connector, two target-side connectors, and a wire-harness. Each of the two target-side connectors includes a power-link portion, a signal-link portion, an interface separating the power-link portion and the signal-link portion, and a plurality of LEDs for indicating activity and fault-detection. A plurality of power-wires electrically connects the wire-harness to the power-link portions of the two target-side connectors, and two signal-link cables connect the initiator-side connector to the signal-link portions of the two target-side connectors.

2002004, Apr 11, 2002

Dec 7, 2001

10/011205

Robert Lajara - San Jose CA, US
Milton Lee - Mountain Vw. CA, US
Alan Winick - San Jose CA, US
Kenneth Lown - Sunnyvale CA, US
Wayman Lee - Los Altos CA, US
Barry Marshall - San Jose CA, US
Anita Patel - Palo Alto CA, US
Steve Furuta - Santa Clara CA, US
Kenneth Kitlas - San Jose CA, US
Ronald Barnes - Livermore CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

G06F001/16

361/687000, 361/683000, 361/724000

A computer system housing with a curved bezel that forms one or more sideways gap between a side of the computer housing chassis and the bezel attached to that side. Typically, the curved bezel is attached to the front of the chassis with each sideways gap extending perpendicularly from the front of the chassis to a predetermined width and stretching to predetermined length along the front of the chassis. The sideways gaps facilitate increased air inlet from the sides and allow efficient cooling of various system components that are mounted on the chassis and housed within the housing. One or more cooling fans may be mounted at different locations within the housing to optimize air circulation and, hence, cooling within the housing. The chassis may be partitioned into two separate sub-chassis for proper positioning of the cooling fans as well as to accommodate changes in computer system configurations with minimized retooling of the chassis.

2009032, Dec 31, 2009

Sep 10, 2009

12/556823

Thomas E. Stewart - San Diego CA, US
Mark H. Chen - Palo Alto CA, US
Alan L. Winick - Meadow Vista CA, US
Michael S. White - San Jose CA, US

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. - Santa Clara CA

B23P 11/00

29428

An expansion card carrier is disclosed, the expansion card carrier including a top portion for covering an expansion card, at least one side portion for supporting the top portion, and at least one pair of card guides for allowing an expansion card to slide along into the expansion card carrier. A method for assembling an expansion card carrier is also disclosed, the method including casting a panel including a top portion for covering an expansion card and at least one side portion for supporting the top portion, forming at least one side portion by deforming the panel, and attaching at least one pair of card guides inside the expansion card carrier for allowing an expansion card to slide along into the expansion card carrier.

5724231, Mar 3, 1998

Jul 1, 1996

8/674125

Alan Lee Winick - San Jose CA
Clifford Willis - Tracy CA
Dave Desilets - Hopkinton MA
James M. Carney - Pepperell MA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

H05K 500

361759

Motherboards and cards (herein "boards") mounted in computer enclosures must be supported on X, Y and Z axes to resist shock and vibration. This requires that four edges of the board be supported. Because of the high cost of such boards their lengths are made as small as possible, and this dimension is the direction of insertion of the board. A guide is attached to the leading edge of the board having a depending foot which engages fasteners formed on the base of the chassis of the enclosure. Thus the inner edge of the board is supported along two axes. Two side edges of the board are held in tracks and the outer edge is held at the point of insertion.

6272007, Aug 7, 2001

Jun 28, 1999

9/340962

Kenneth Kitlas - San Jose CA
Anita Patel - Palo Alto CA
Satyanarayana Nishtala - Cupertino CA
Alan Lee Winick - San Jose CA
Alan Lam - Fremont CA
Winiie C. Leung - San Francisco CA
Kenneth A. Lown - Sunnyvale CA
Mohammed Tantoush - Union City CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 116

361683

A computer system housing where a vertical printed circuit board, e. g. , a riser card, is inserted into a socket on a computer system motherboard. Some internal space within the housing may allow optimization of system memory capacity through packing of additional memory modules on the riser card. The additional memory may be mounted on the riser card and may reside in the vertical space created between the riser card and the directly-mounted memory on the motherboard. The computer system housing further includes a chassis that may be partitioned into two separate sub-chassis for proper positioning of one or more cooling fans as well as to accommodate changes in computer system configurations with minimized retooling of the chassis. The cooling fans may be mounted at such locations on the chassis that allow optimization of air circulation and, hence, cooling within the housing. However, extra cooling fan(s) for the additional memory on the riser card may not be necessary in view of the creation of dedicated cooling channels within the housing by an efficient placement of the cooling fans.

5793608, Aug 11, 1998

Jun 11, 1996

8/661817

Alan Lee Winick - San Jose CA
Nagaraj Mitty - San Jose CA
Gary A. Harpell - San Carlos CA

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mountain View CA

H05K 720

361695

An enclosure contains, among other components, hard drive cartridges, graphics or other option cards, power supply and a CPU and its support chips. The total power in the whole enclosure is about 325W and the CPU consumes about 30W of this total. For design purposes the components are closely positioned and hence heat dissipation is an important problem. Plural fans, as hereinafter disclosed, are used to circulate air. For the hard drive cartridges a fan snapped into a sidewall of the enclosure draws air from apertures in the bottom through the cartridge and into a plenum. For the CPU, an impingement fan discharges air directly downward on a heat sink positioned over the chip and into the plenum. Bulk flow fans discharge air from air intake vents in side walls of the enclosure as well as air discharged from the hard drive and CPU through an internal wall into a separate sub-enclosure for the power supply and thence to the exterior. Conventional fans are used but are positioned and inter-related so that the noise level is tolerable.