William David Cunningham

6525273, Feb 25, 2003

Sep 28, 2001

09/966322

William Cunningham - Westborough MA

EMC Corporation - Hopkinton MA

H01B 740

174135, 24 17 A, 24 305 R, 248 681, 248 743

A cable management system for securely holding one or more cables in position. The system includes a base, a lock, and an elastic member. The elastic member holds one or more cables against the base when the lock is engaged. The lock may be any one of a number of different types of locking structures including atab, velcro, or a screw for example. The cable management system may further include a mounting mechanism for mounting the cable management system to a chassis containing components to which the one or more cables are connected. The mounting mechanism may allow the cable management to be cantilevered away from the chassis. In another embodiment, the mounting mechanism may simply be a screw mount such that the back of the base lies flush with a surface on which the cable management system is being mounted. The cable management system may include a groove in the base for providing two or more points of friction preventing the one or more cables from slipping across the base when the lock is engaged. The base may further include one or more prongs, which are positioned on opposite sides of the groove and assist in both aligning the elastic member and preventing the lock from becoming disengaged, when force is placed on the cables.

7134902, Nov 14, 2006

Sep 29, 2005

11/238284

Jeffrey M. Lewis - Maynard MA, US
William Brian Cunningham - Westborough MA, US
Ilhan Gundogan - Lexington MA, US

EMC Corporation - Hopkinton MA

H01R 13/62

439373, 439372

A power cord retainer for retaining a plug portion of an electrical cord in an electrical socket mounted to a chassis. The retainer includes a pair of resilient, self supporting posts, each one having a distal end configured for affixation to positions of the chassis on opposing sides of the socket and a pair of shoulders, each one affixed to a proximal end of a corresponding one of the pair of posts. The pair of shoulders are configured to form a grove along adjacent inner sides thereof. The groove is axially aligned with the socket. The groove is configured to receive the power cord when the posts are in a stretched position. The shoulders are configured to engage a rear portion of the plug portion and, together with the forces provided by the pair of posts when such posts are enabled to return to an un-stretched position, retain such plug in the socket.

7612288, Nov 3, 2009

Dec 27, 2007

11/965429

Ilhan Gundogan - Lexington MA, US
William Brian Cunningham - Westborough MA, US
Jeffrey Michael Lewis - Maynard MA, US
Gerald J. Cote - Upton MA, US
Lawrence J. Feroli - W. Townsend MA, US

EMC Corporation - Hopkinton MA

H01B 7/36

174112

A cable assembly has an electronic cable (e. g. , a data communications cable, a power cable, a fiber optic cable, a cable concurrently providing both data and power, etc. ), a label to provide identification to the electronic cable, and a label supporter. The label supporter includes a cable section arranged to attach to the electronic cable, and a label section coupled to the cable section. The label section defines a rigid label surface which concurrently (i) overlays a portion of an outer surface of the electronic cable at a predefined distance from the outer surface of the electronic cable and (ii) supports the label at the predefined distance from the outer surface of the electronic cable when the cable section attaches to the electronic cable.

7698491, Apr 13, 2010

Sep 26, 2007

11/861636

William Brian Cunningham - Westborough MA, US
Ilhan Gundogan - Lexington MA, US

EMC Corporation - Hopkinton MA

G06F 13/36

710306, 3122231, 3122232, 361600, 361775, 361784, 361792, 361788, 361796, 361797, 174 50

A modular patch panel for interconnecting a data storage system controller to data storage enclosures is provided. The modular patch panel includes a chassis and modular interface circuitry. The chassis has a front end and a back end, the front end and the back end being horizontally opposed, the back end attaching to a panel portion of a rack system, the panel portion electrically connecting to the data storage enclosures over a set of point-to-point connections. The modular interface circuitry has (a) a data storage interface portion electrically connected to the set of point-to-point connections through the panel and (b) a controller interface portion electrically connecting to the data storage system controller through the front end. The modular interface circuitry is interchangeable through an opening in the front end. It is also constructed and arranged to manage digital communications between the data storage system controller and the data storage enclosures according to a data storage system protocol used by the data storage system controller.