Patent Application
20250019156
This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202310859107.0, titled “CONTAINER AND DATA CENTER” and filed to the China National Intellectual Property Administration on Jul. 13, 2023, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the field of server device, and more particularly, to a container and a data center.
To facilitate rapid construction and deployment of data centers, more and more data centers begin to adopt a plurality of containers to carry servers and related devices, thus constructing data center products.
However, in rainy weather, the existing containers used in the data centers frequently experience accumulation of rainwater on tops of the containers due to design of their concave top ends, making it difficult to drain the rainwater, resulting in corrosion and even water seepage on the tops of the containers, and thus adversely affecting normal operation of devices inside the containers.
Objectives of the present disclosure are to provide a container and data center, which can prevent accumulation of rainwater on a top of the container.
The present disclosure provides a container, which includes a body, where the body has a top surface and a first side surface and a second side surface arranged opposite to each other. A groove is formed on the top surface, and the groove extends from the first side surface to the second side surface and divides the top surface into a first part and a second part, and both the first part and the second part are slantwise arranged downwards towards the groove. A bottom surface of the groove is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end of the groove, such that when the rainwater falls on the first part and/or the second part, the rainwater flows into the groove under a guidance of the first part and the second part, and flows out of the top surface under the guidance of the groove.
Correspondingly, the present disclosure also provides a data center at least including the above-mentioned container, where a server is accommodated in the container.
Beneficial effects of the present disclosure are as below. Different from existing technologies, the present disclosure provides a container and a data center. A groove is formed on the top surface of the container, where the top surface is slantwise arranged downwards towards the groove, and the groove is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end thereof. In this way, rainwater falling on the top surface may flow out of the top surface under the guidance of the top surface and the groove, thereby avoiding accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, preventing corrosion and water seepage caused by long-term accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, thereby ensuring service life of the container, and ensuring normal operation of devices inside the container.
To describe the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the accompanying drawings required in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure. To those of ordinary skills in the art, other accompanying drawings may also be derived from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
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To make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present disclosure clearer, the embodiments of the present disclosure will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The terms such as “upper”, “above”, “lower”, “below”, “first end”, “second end”, “one end”, “other end” as used herein, which denote spatial relative positions, describe the relationship of one unit or feature relative to another unit or feature in the accompanying drawings for the purpose of illustration. The terms of the spatial relative positions may be intended to include different orientations of a device in use or operation other than the orientations shown in the accompanying drawings. For example, a unit that is described as “below” or “under” other units or features will be “above” the other units or features when the device in the accompanying drawings is turned upside down. Thus, the exemplary term “below” may encompass both the orientations of above and below. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated by 90 degrees or facing other directions) and the space-related descriptors used herein are interpreted accordingly.
In addition, terms “installed”, “arranged”, “provided”, “connection”, “sliding connection”, “fixed”, and “sleeved” should be understood in a broad sense. For example, the “connection” may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection or integrated connection, a mechanical connection or an electrical connection, a direct connection or indirect connection by means of an intermediary, or internal communication between two apparatuses, elements, or components. The specific significations of the above terms in the present disclosure may be understood in the light of specific conditions by persons of ordinary skill in the art.
To facilitate rapid construction and deployment of data centers, more and more data centers begin to adopt a plurality of containers to carry servers and related devices, thus constructing data center products.
However, in rainy weather, the existing containers used in the data centers frequently experience accumulation of rainwater on tops of the containers due to design of their concave top ends, making it difficult to drain the rainwater, resulting in corrosion and even water seepage on the tops of the containers, and thus adversely affecting normal operation of devices inside the containers.
Moreover, when the rainwater that falls on the tops of the containers directly drops from bottoms, because the containers have certain heights, the rainwater dropping from the tops of the containers collide with installation ground under the action of gravity and inertia force, which may cause damage to the ground over time.
In view of this, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a container and a data center to solve the problem of accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container. The container and the data center are described in detail below, respectively.
In an implementable embodiment, the container at least includes a body 10, which has a top surface 11 and a first side surface 12 and a second side surface 13 arranged opposite to each other. A groove 14 is formed on the top surface 11, the groove 14 extends from the first side surface 12 to the second side surface 13 and divides the top surface 11 into a first part 111 and a second part 112, and both the first part 111 and the second part 112 are slantwise arranged downwards towards the groove 14. In this way, when rainwater falls on the first part 111 and the second part 112, the rainwater flows into the groove 14 under a guidance of the first part 111 and the second part 112. Moreover, a bottom surface of the groove 14 is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end of the groove 14, such that the rainwater flowing into the groove 14 flows out of the top surface 11 under the guidance of the groove 14. That is, the rainwater falling on the top surface 11 may flow out of the top surface 11 under the guidance of the top surface 11 and the groove 14, thereby avoiding accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, preventing corrosion and water seepage caused by long-term accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, thereby ensuring service life of the container, and ensuring normal operation of devices inside the container.
In practical applications, the container may be a triangular prism structure, a rectangular prism structure, or a hexagonal prism structure, etc. For the convenience of transportation, preferably the container in the present disclosure is the rectangular prism structure. Correspondingly, the container has four side surfaces, where the first side surface 12 and the second side surface 13 are two oppositely-arranged side surfaces among the four side surfaces.
To facilitate understanding the expression that the bottom surface of the groove 14 is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end of the groove 14, the present disclosure provides two specific embodiments for detailed explanation.
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In the second embodiment, as shown in
Due to existence of a certain height between the groove 14 and the ground, when the rainwater flows directly from the groove 14 to the ground, the rainwater is prone to causing damage to the ground over time under the action of gravitational potential energy. To address the aforementioned problem, in an implementable embodiment, the container may also include a buffer structure 20, which is connected to the body 10 to receive the rainwater flowing out of the groove 14 to buffer the rainwater.
Further, the buffer structure 20 should be detachably connected to the body 10, such that the buffer structure 20 may be installed according to actual usage. For example, when one container is used separately, the buffer structure 20 may be installed on a side where the rainwater flows out. When a plurality of containers are placed side by side, the buffer structure 20 only needs to be installed on a side of the outermost container where the rainwater flows out.
For the convenience of understanding, the container structure in the second embodiment is taken as an example, the buffer structure 20 is positioned on the second side surface 13 such that the rainwater flowing out of the second side surface 13 flows to the ground after being buffered by the buffer structure 20. Specifically, the buffer structure 20 may include a barrier plate 22, where two connecting components 21 are respectively connected to two ends of the barrier plate 22, and the barrier plate 22 is detachably connected to the body 10 through the two connecting components 21. One side of the barrier plate 22 is adhered on the second side surface 13, and other side of the barrier plate 22 extends along a direction away from the second side surface 13. It is to be understood that the rainwater flowing out of the groove 14 likely slides down along the second side surface 13, or likely slides out of the groove 14 in a parabolic shape. Therefore, the above structure in the present disclosure may allow the rainwater to flow to the barrier plate 22 in both cases, such that the barrier plate 22 can buffer the rainwater.
In practical applications, a preset distance is provided between the other side of the barrier plate 22 and the second side surface 13, such that the barrier plate 22 can receive the rainwater flowing down in a parabolic shape, thereby buffering the rainwater. Based on empirical values, the preset distance is between 5 cm and 20 cm. The barrier plate 22 should be made of materials with higher strength, such as steel, aluminum alloy, carbon fiber, and polyimide, to avoid causing damage by impact force of the rainwater.
The second side surface 13 may be a flat surface. Of course, to improve overall structural strength of the container, the second side surface 13 may also be constructed as a wave structure. That is, the second side surface 13 is provided with a plurality of strip grooves 131 arranged at intervals, where the plurality of strip grooves 131 extend from a top of the second side surface 13 to a bottom of the second side surface 13, and the plurality of strip grooves 131 also form a plurality of protruding parts 132 on the second side surface 13.
Regarding the specific structure of the connecting component 21, in an implementable embodiment, the connecting component 21 includes a U-shaped plate 211 connected to the barrier plate 22, and an interference connection is formed between the U-shaped plate 211 and each of the plurality of protruding parts 132 to connect the barrier plate 22 to the body 10. In practical applications, rubber sheets may be attached to inner sides of two vertical members of the U-shaped plate 211, which increases friction forces between the rubber sheets and the plurality of protruding parts 132, thereby improving connection stability. A distance between two rubber sheets should be less than a width of the protruding part 132, such that the U-shaped plate 211 may be connected to the protruding part 132 by means of interference connection. Of course, the connecting components 21 may also be connected by locking a locking screw with the protruding part 132, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
Correspondingly, the barrier plate 22 includes a transverse plate 221 and a plurality of protrusions 222, where the transverse plate 221 is adhered on the top surface of the protruding part 132, and the plurality of protrusions 222 are connected to the transverse plate 221. The plurality of protrusions 222 are spaced along a length direction of the transverse plate 221, and the plurality of protrusions 222 are inserted into the plurality of strip grooves 131 in one-to-one correspondence. In this way, it is ensured that the barrier plate 22 is adhered on the second side surface 13, such that the rainwater flowing down along the protrusions 222 or the rainwater flowing down along the protruding part 132 can both flow to the barrier plate 22, and thus the barrier plate 22 can buffer the rainwater.
In practical applications, one of the strip grooves 131 may be communicated with the groove 14, such that the rainwater flowing out along the groove 14 may enter the strip groove 131 and may slide downwards along the strip groove 131, causing most of the rainwater to slide along this strip groove 131. In this way, during production, a wear-resistant layer and a corrosion-resistant layer may be separately provided for this strip groove 131 to improve wear and corrosion resistance in a corresponding area, which can ensure the service life of the container and reduce production costs as much as possible.
In an implementable embodiment, a water receiving cover 23 is also connected to each of the two U-shaped plates 211. A hole of the water receiving cover 23 is positioned directly below the other side of the barrier plate 22, such that the rainwater flowing down through the barrier plate 22 first enters the water receiving cover 23, and then overflows to the outside after the water receiving cover 23 is filled with the rainwater. In this way, the impact force of the rainwater sliding down from the top can be further reduced, thereby reducing possibility of causing damage to the ground.
In this embodiment, two ends of the water receiving cover 23 may also be hinged with the two U-shaped plates 211, and an elastic pin is connected to at least one of the two U-shaped plates 211, and correspondingly, a pin hole is provided on the top of one end of the water receiving cover 23. When the water receiving cover 23 is in an operating state, the elastic pin is inserted into the pin hole to fix the water receiving cover 23, such that the hole of the water receiving cover 23 faces toward the other side of the barrier plate 22. When a user needs to remove the rainwater inside the water receiving cover 23, the user only needs to detach the elastic pin from the pin hole, such that the water receiving cover 23 can flip along a hinge between the water receiving cover 23 and the U-shaped plate 211, thereby pouring away the rainwater inside the water receiving cover 23.
Based on the same inventive concept, the present disclosure also provides a data center at least including the container, where a server is accommodated in the container.
It is to be pointed out that reference may be made to the above contents for the specific structure of the container, which is not to be elaborated here.
As can be seen, the present disclosure provides a container and a data center. A groove is formed on the top surface of the container, where the top surface is slantwise arranged downwards towards the groove, and the groove is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end thereof. In this way, rainwater falling on the top surface may flow out of the top surface under the guidance of the top surface and the groove, thereby avoiding accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, preventing corrosion and water seepage caused by long-term accumulation of the rainwater on the top of the container, thereby ensuring service life of the container, and ensuring normal operation of devices inside the container.
Further, a buffer structure is connected to the second side surface, where the buffer structure includes a barrier plate, which is adhered on the second side surface such that the rainwater flowing out of the second side surface flows to the ground after being buffered by the barrier plate, thereby providing buffering for the rainwater by the barrier plate, reducing the impact force of the rainwater on the ground, and thus avoiding causing damage to the ground.
The embodiments set forth above are only illustrated as preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. All modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202310859107.0 | Jul 2023 | CN | national |
