公开(公告)号：US06263391B1

公开(公告)日：2001-07-17

申请号：US09160123

申请日：1998-09-24

申请人： Victor Key Pecone ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson ,  John M. Hartling

发明人： Victor Key Pecone ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson ,  John M. Hartling

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G06F13/409

摘要： The invention is a modular bus bridge that comprises an I/O controller board, an optional display, and various connectors. The connectors allow a choice of backplane mounting or cable connections. The I/O controller board interconnects bus interfaces and controls the display. The I/O controller board is connected to the display by releasable connectors, so the display may be optionally added or removed. The display allows an end-user to scroll through a menu presented on the display and select from the menu. The I/O controller board is coupled to a backplane connector for backplane mounting. A cable interface can be releasably connected to the backplane connector if cable connections are desired instead of backplane mounting.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种模块化总线桥，其包括I / O控制器板，可选显示器和各种连接器。 连接器允许选择背板安装或电缆连接。 I / O控制器板互连总线接口并控制显示。 I / O控制器板通过可释放的连接器连接到显示器，因此可以选择性地添加或删除显示器。 显示屏允许最终用户滚动显示屏上显示的菜单，并从菜单中进行选择。 I / O控制器板耦合到背板连接器，用于背板安装。 如果需要电缆连接而不是底板安装，电缆接口可以可拆卸地连接到背板连接器。

公开(公告)号：US6098140A

公开(公告)日：2000-08-01

申请号：US96096

申请日：1998-06-11

申请人： Victor Key Pecone ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson

发明人： Victor Key Pecone ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson

IPC分类号： G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F13/4027 ,  G06F9/4411

摘要： The invention is a bus bridge for connecting a computer to peripheral devices over plurality of different bus interface configurations. The bus bridge comprises a motherboard and daughterboards. The daughterboards can be connected to the motherboard or to other daughterboards to create a new bus interface configuration. The bus bridge detects the new bus interface configuration and retrieves operating parameters to implement the new bus interface configuration. In some embodiments of the invention, the bus interface configuration is a fiber channel to the computer, a first small computer system interface to a first group of the peripheral devices, and a second small computer system interface to a second group of the peripheral devices.

摘要翻译： 本发明是一种用于通过多个不同总线接口配置将计算机连接到外围设备的总线桥。 公共汽车桥梁包括一个主板和子板。 子板可以连接到主板或其他子板，以创建一个新的总线接口配置。 总线桥接器检测新的总线接口配置，并检索操作参数以实现新的总线接口配置。 在本发明的一些实施例中，总线接口配置是到计算机的光纤通道，到第一组外围设备的第一小型计算机系统接口，以及到第二组外围设备的第二小型计算机系统接口。

公开(公告)号：US5966292A

公开(公告)日：1999-10-12

申请号：US884938

申请日：1997-06-30

申请人： Mark Frederick Amberg ,  Thomas Alvin McKoon ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson

发明人： Mark Frederick Amberg ,  Thomas Alvin McKoon ,  Dwayne Howard Swanson

IPC分类号： G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/18 ,  H02B1/20 ,  H05K7/10

CPC分类号： G06F1/189

摘要： In a modular tower building block system for containing computing system devices, a power bus is incorporated into the modular blocks of the building block system by using a printed circuit board to carry the power bus in each modular block. The printed circuit board is mounted and positioned in each modular block to electrically connect with a printed circuit board in a next adjacent modular block when two modular blocks are stacked on each other. Also, there are a plurality of three-phase power buses on the printed circuit boards and only one phase of each power bus is distributed from each modular block. The printed circuit board is precisely located in each modular block at a predetermined position. Alignment pins and receivers provide alignment between stacked modular blocks to precisely position one modular block to the other modular block. This also aligns electrical connectors on the printed circuit boards of the stacked blocks so that the connectors on the printed circuit boards from two blocks mate when the two blocks are stacked.

摘要翻译： 在用于包含计算系统设备的模块化塔式构建块系统中，通过使用印刷电路板在每个模块化块中承载电力总线，将电力总线并入到构建块系统的模块化块中。 当两个模块化块彼此堆叠时，印刷电路板安装并定位在每个模块化块中以与下一相邻模块中的印刷电路板电连接。 此外，在印刷电路板上存在多个三相电力总线，并且每个电源总线的仅一个相位从每个模块化块分布。 印刷电路板在预定位置处精确地位于每个模块中。 对准引脚和接收器提供堆叠的模块化块之间的对准，以将一个模块化块精确定位到另一个模块化块。 这也使堆叠块的印刷电路板上的电连接器对准，使得当两个块堆叠时，来自两个块的印刷电路板上的连接器相交。