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Amazon patents rack cable holder that adjusts to fit server ports

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

Amazon has been granted a patent for a cable management cartridge designed to fit inside server racks. The device uses adjustable springs and fasteners to fine-tune the position of its connectors, ensuring they align properly with server ports even if the equipment is not perfectly straight.

Why it mattersThis design helps data centers install servers more easily by automatically compensating for small alignment errors, reducing the need for manual adjustments during setup.

In the filing’s own words

A system can include a cartridge for installation within an interior volume of a rack. The cartridge can include an elongate rigid body. Connector bodies may be arranged along the elongate rigid body and sized for engagement with the aligned port bodies of appliances to be arranged in the rack. An adjustable assembly may be coupled with at least one connector body and include a set of one or more fasteners adjustable to adjust a position of the at least one connector body relative to the elongate rigid body.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of installing computing equipment, the method comprising: positioning a cartridge within an interior volume of a server rack, the cartridge comprising connector bodies distributed at respective vertical positions along a height of the cartridge; positioning multiple server chassis at least partially within the interior volume of the server rack; imparting relative motion between the cartridge and the multiple server chassis to bring the cartridge and the multiple server chassis each into an initially installed state in which port bodies of the multiple server chassis are in preliminary engagement with the connector bodies of the cartridge; with the preliminary engagement established, inserting a tool into an inserted configuration in which the tool is extending through an opening in a rear of the cartridge; and with the tool in the inserted configuration, using the tool for adjusting positioning of a set of one or more fasteners so as to impart adjusting of a compressed length of a spring arranged in the cartridge relative to a given connector body of the connector bodies, wherein said adjusting of the compressed length of the spring alters an extent of mating of the given connector body with a given port body of the port bodies from a first extent of mating present at the preliminary engagement to a second extent different from the first extent so as to accommodate variations in positioning of the connector bodies and the port bodies along the height of the cartridge in the initially installed state.

Facts

Company
Amazon (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)
Official title
Cable cartridge with adjustable connectors
Patent number
US12757349B1
Application number
18980196
Filed
Dec 13, 2024
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

H05K 7/1489 Electricity & electronics

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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