1. A connector, comprising:
a connector housing having a plurality of walls; and
a keep-out feature integrated substantially within the plane of at least one of said plurality of walls of said housing.
2. The connector of claim 1, wherein said at least one of said plurality of walls comprises at least one sidewall of said housing.
3. The connector of claim 1, wherein said keep-out feature comprises a substantially cantilevered beam.
4. The connector of claim 3, wherein said substantially cantilevered beam comprises a head section, said head section comprising a ramp feature and a stop feature.
5. The connector of claim 4, wherein said ramp feature is engaged by an inserted RJ-45 plug, thereby moving said stop feature out of a plug receiving cavity of said connector housing.
6. The connector of claim 4, wherein said substantially cantilevered beam comprises at least one bend.
7. The connector of claim 4, wherein said substantially cantilevered beam comprises at least two bends.
8. The connector of claim 2, wherein said at least one sidewall comprises a first width, and said keep-out feature comprises a cantilever beam width substantially equal to said first width.
9. The connector of claim 1, wherein said housing comprises a modular plug-receiving cavity formed in a front face thereof, and said at least one of said plurality of walls comprises a sidewall; and
wherein said keep-out features substantially frustrates insertion of an incorrectly-sized modular plug in said cavity.
10. The connector of claim 9, wherein said keep-out feature comprises a substantially cantilevered arm being molded as part of said sidewall.
11. The connector of claim 10, wherein at least a portion of said substantially cantilevered arm extends into the plane of a top or bottom wall of said connector.
12. The connector of claim 10, wherein said substantially cantilevered arm comprises an arcuate portion which causes said arm to change direction along its length by at least forty-five (45) degrees.
13. The connector of claim 2, wherein said keep-out feature integrated substantially within the plane of at least one sidewall of said housing comprises first and second cantilevered arms, said first and second arms being disposed at least partly within the planes of first and second sidewalls of said housing, respectively.
14. A method of manufacturing a connector comprising an integrated keep-out feature, said method comprising:
molding a housing of said connector comprising said integrated keep-out feature, said molding forming said feature substantially within at least one sidewall of said housing.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein said act of molding said integrated keep-out feature comprises molding a cantilever beam.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein said act of molding said cantilever beam comprises forming a head section, said head section comprising a ramp feature and a stop feature.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein said act of molding said cantilever beam comprises forming at least one bend in said molded cantilever bend.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein said act of molding said cantilever beam comprises forming at least two bends in said molded cantilever bend.
19. The method of claim 14, wherein said act of forming said feature substantially within at least one sidewall of said housing comprises forming a substantially arcuate and cantilevered arm.
20. A connector, comprising:
a connector housing; and
a keep-out feature disposed at least partly within a plane that is substantially parallel with a front face of said housing.
21. The connector of claim 20, wherein at least a portion of said feature is adapted to deflect or rotate within said plane upon actuation by a properly-sized plug.
22. The connector assembly of claim 21, wherein said keep-out feature comprises a deflection feature and a stop feature, wherein said stop feature is deflected out of a plug receiving cavity in said connector housing upon actuation by said properly-sized plug.
23. The connector assembly of claim 20, wherein said keep-out feature is integrally molded into said connector housing.
24. The connector assembly of claim 20, wherein said keep-out feature comprises a separately formed element.
25. The connector assembly of claim 24, wherein said keep-out feature comprises a metallic structure, said keep-out feature comprising a deflection feature and a stop feature, wherein said stop feature is deflected out of a plug receiving cavity in said connector housing upon actuation by a properly-sized plug.
26. The connector assembly of claim 25, wherein said deflection feature is located substantially within a corner of said plug receiving cavity.
27. A connector assembly comprising:
a connector housing comprising a plug receiving recess and a keep out feature recess;
a conductive shield substantially surrounding said connector housing; and
a keep out feature resident substantially within said keep out feature recess.
28. The connector assembly of claim 27, wherein said keep out feature comprises a cantilever beam having a shield contact portion;
wherein said keep out feature recess is located at a top surface of said connector housing and is enclosed at said top surface by said shield.
29. The connector assembly of claim 28, wherein said shield in combination with said shield contact portion acts as a fulcrum for said cantilever beam such that when a properly sized plug is inserted into said plug receiving recess, said keep out feature is deflected upward out of said plug receiving recess.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A storage control apparatus equipped with a logic board for carrying out storage control, said storage control apparatus comprising:
a vertical logic board; and
a cooling mechanism constituted such that air taken in from the front of said storage control apparatus travels to the rear side of said storage control apparatus and then rises up, said risen air rises further while cooling said vertical logic board, and said risen air is discharged from the rear of said storage control apparatus.
2. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cooling mechanism comprises:
an inlet provided in the front of said storage control apparatus;
an outlet provided in the rear of said storage control apparatus; and
an air passageway extending from said inlet to said outlet,
wherein said air passageway comprises a first air sub-passageway, which extends from said inlet to a position lower than the bottom edge of the logic board; a second air sub-passageway, which continues from the end of the first air sub-passageway to either a position at the top edge of the logic board or higher via the surface of said logic board; and a third air sub-passageway, which continues from the end of the second air sub-passageway to said outlet.
3. The storage control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the part of said second air sub-passageway, which passes through the surface of said logic board, substantially covers the entire surface of said logic board.
4. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a backplane, which is a circuit board that divides said storage control apparatus into a front side and a rear side, and
said logic board is connected to said backplane from the rear side of said storage control apparatus in a vertical state.
5. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cooling mechanism comprises:
an inlet provided in the front of said storage control apparatus;
an outlet provided in the rear of said storage control apparatus;
an air passageway, which extends from said inlet to said outlet; and
at least one of an intake source, which is provided either in said inlet or in the vicinity thereof, for taking in air from said front, and an exhaust source, which is provided either in said outlet or in the vicinity thereof, for discharging air to said rear.
6. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a velocity adjustment member for adjusting the velocity of the air at a specified location of said logic board.
7. The storage control apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said velocity adjustment member is a velocity resistance member for suppressing the velocity of the air, and said velocity resistance member is provided at the back side of said logic board, and in at least one of a location that is higher than the top edge of said logic board, or a location that is lower than the bottom edge of said logic board.
8. The storage control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said velocity resistance member is a plate having one or a plurality of holes formed thereon.
9. The storage control apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a positioning member for positioning said logic board, wherein said velocity resistance member is mounted to said positioning member.
10. The storage control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said velocity resistance member is a guiding member for causing the air traveling from the front to said rear side of said storage control apparatus to rise up from a certain location toward said logic board.
11. The storage control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
said guiding member is mounted in the vicinity of said certain location at a prescribed height from the bottom of the passageway along which the air flows, and thereby the air from said front separates above and below said guiding member, and the air that separated upwardly rises toward said logic board, and the air that separated downwardly passes below said guiding member and travels further toward said rear side, and
said prescribed height is determined in accordance with the amount of at least one of the air of the upper side and the air of the lower side, which are divided by said guiding member.
12. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
multiplexed logical groups, wherein
each logical group has one or more logic boards, and
either a part or the whole of the passageway for the air, which is taken in from the front of said storage control apparatus and discharged from the rear of said storage control apparatus, is partitioned for each of said logical groups.
13. The storage control apparatus according to claim 12, wherein:
said cooling mechanism comprises at least one of a plurality of intake sources for taking in air from the front of said storage control apparatus, and a plurality of exhaust sources for discharging air from the rear of said storage control apparatus, and
each of said plurality of intake sources andor said plurality of exhaust sources corresponds to at least one of said multiplexed logical groups, and when trouble occurs in a certain logical group of said multiplexed logical groups, the driving of the intake source andor exhaust source corresponding to said certain logical group is stopped.
14. The storage control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
multiplexed logical groups, wherein
each logical group has one or more logic boards, and
said cooling mechanism comprises at least one of a plurality of intake sources for taking in air from the front of said storage control apparatus, and a plurality of exhaust sources for discharging air from the rear of said storage control apparatus, and
each of said plurality of intake sources andor said plurality of exhaust sources corresponds to at least one of said multiplexed logical groups, and even if trouble occurs in a certain logical group of said multiplexed logical groups, the driving of the intake source andor exhaust source corresponding to said certain logical group is continued.
15. A storage control apparatus equipped with a logic board for carrying out storage control, said storage control apparatus comprising:
a backplane, which is a circuit board that divides said storage control apparatus into a front side and a rear side;
a logic board, which is connected to said backplane in a vertical state from the rear side of said storage control apparatus; and
a cooling mechanism for cooling said logic board,
wherein said cooling mechanism comprises an inlet provided in the front of said storage control apparatus;
an outlet provided in the rear of said storage control apparatus;
at least one of an intake source, which is provided either in said inlet or in the vicinity thereof, for taking in air from said front, and an exhaust source, which is provided either in said outlet or in the vicinity thereof, for discharging air to said rear; and
an air passageway, which extends from said inlet to said outlet,
said cooling mechanism being constituted such that air taken in from said inlet travels to the rear side of said storage control apparatus and then rises up, said risen air rises further while cooling said vertical logic board, and said risen air is discharged from said outlet.