公开(公告)号：US20190269040A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US15908648

申请日：2018-02-28

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Le GAO ,  Yang SUN ,  Rudong SHI ,  Na FENG

IPC: H05K7/20 ,  H05K7/14

Abstract: The embodiments herein describe a function module that is removably mounted in a chassis. For example, the chassis may be a server chassis which stores a plurality of blade servers which uses hardware components and a fan module mounted in the function module to increase the storage capacity or computing performance of the blade servers. The function module can include PCIe cards, GPU cards, hard drives, and the like which are communicatively coupled to the blade servers in the chassis. In one embodiment, the function module is slidably mounted onto the chassis so that when pulled by the system administrator, the function module slides out of a front or rear side of the chassis. Doing so provides room for the system administrator to then add and/or remove the hardware components and the fan module mounted in the function module.