Patent attributes
Disclosed are designs to facilitate blind-mating of fluid connectors on servers and on racks that house the servers. The design includes two plates. A first plate has a connector channel to guide the connectors of the server through the first plate and spring structures to apply a force to push the connectors of the server toward the center of the connector channel. A second plate has positioning holes around its perimeter for mounting the connectors of the server using the force of the spring structures. The first plate is rotatable around a rotation axis to align the connectors of the server with the connectors of the rack. The second plate may have an elastic layer that is compressed to change a width of the second plate by inserting the second plate to the rack to automatically align the connectors of the server and of the rack in the horizontal direction.
