High performance mass storage subsystem

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5737189
SERIAL NO

08760726

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A computer subsystem including stackable, interlocking, modular peripheral containment enclosures, each the enclosure including broad top and bottom walls held in spaced-apart arrangement by opposed shorter side walls and a rear wall, the walls joined along their respective marginal edges to form an enclosure cavity accessible through the front opening formed thereby, a device extending rearward from the front opening interior the cavity for receiving therealong an enclosed sled containing a computer peripheral, in controlled alignment, the sled including a front face that aligns flush against the front enclosure opening when the sled is fully seated in the cavity, a device for electrically interconnecting the peripheral to a connectable connector in the enclosure, a device for providing an air cooling throughout the cavity including an aperture formed in at least one the side wall for passage of air therethrough, and a device for interconnecting a plurality of the enclosures in horizontal or vertical arrangement external the enclosure walls for positioning on a flat surface including device for maintaining a space between the flat surface and the enclosure wall nearest the surface.

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DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP6305 EL CAMINO REAL CARLSBAD CA 92009

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Colson, Jr Angus R Jamul, CA 14 768
Cook, Steven B Vista, CA 19 433
Kammersgard, Dana W Escondido, CA 7 133

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