Patents Assigned to Hardcore Computer, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8305759
    Abstract: Dielectric liquid is used to cool heat generating electronic components disposed on a circuit board within a case. The liquid is poured or otherwise directed over the electronic components, with gravity assisting the liquid in flowing downward over the components, with the liquid thereafter being collected in a sump for eventual return back to the electronic components. One exemplary application of the described concepts is in cooling electronic components in computers, for example personal computers or server computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, Scott Williamson, Wayne Fjerstad
  • Publication number: 20120186789
    Abstract: A fluid composition or nanofluid is described that includes a dielectric base fluid, a chemical dispersant, and nanoparticles dispersed in the dielectric fluid. The chemical dispersant is used to facilitate the nanoparticle dispersing process and also to increase the stability of the nanofluid thus produced. The nanofluid is compatible with electronics and has enhanced thermal conductivity for use in cooling electronics. Techniques are described that can be used to efficiently disperse different forms of nanoparticles into a base fluid and produce a stable nanofluid which is compatible with electronic circuitry and components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventors: Salah S. Sedarous, Chad D. Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20120075796
    Abstract: A liquid submersion-cooled computer that is configured to reduce physical structures passing through walls of the computer liquid-tight computer case, which eliminates the amount of sealing needed around those physical structures and reduces the number of possible fluid leakage paths from the interior of the computer that contains a cooling liquid submerging at least some of the computer components. The computer includes a mechanism to pass input/output signals into and from the computer without any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls. The computer also has a mechanism for wirelessly transferring power into the interior space of the computer case, and a switch that controls power in the computer without having any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel ATTLESEY
  • Publication number: 20120075797
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20120044633
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooled computer that includes a seamless, extruded main body used to form a liquid-tight case holding a cooling liquid that submerges components of the computer. By forming the main body as a seamless extrusion, the number of possible leakage paths from the resulting liquid-tight case is reduced. No seams are provided on the main body, and there are no openings through the walls of the main body, so liquid cannot leakage through the main body. Any leakage paths are limited to joints between the main body and end walls which are sealingly attached to the main body to form the liquid-tight case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel ATTLESEY
  • Patent number: 8089764
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Patent number: 8089765
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooled computer that includes a seamless, extruded main body used to form a liquid-tight case holding a cooling liquid that submerges components of the computer. By forming the main body as a seamless extrusion, the number of possible leakage paths from the resulting liquid-tight case is reduced. No seams are provided on the main body, and there are no openings through the walls of the main body, so liquid cannot leakage through the main body. Any leakage paths are limited to joints between the main body and end walls which are sealingly attached to the main body to form the liquid-tight case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Patent number: 8089766
    Abstract: A liquid submersion-cooled computer that is configured to reduce physical structures passing through walls of the computer liquid-tight computer case, which eliminates the amount of sealing needed around those physical structures and reduces the number of possible fluid leakage paths from the interior of the computer that contains a cooling liquid submerging at least some of the computer components. The computer includes a mechanism to pass input/output signals into and from the computer without any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls. The computer also has a mechanism for wirelessly transferring power into the interior space of the computer case, and a switch that controls power in the computer without having any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20110286177
    Abstract: A liquid submersion-cooled computer that is configured to reduce physical structures passing through walls of the computer liquid-tight computer case, which eliminates the amount of sealing needed around those physical structures and reduces the number of possible fluid leakage paths from the interior of the computer that contains a cooling liquid submerging at least some of the computer components. The computer includes a mechanism to pass input/output signals into and from the computer without any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls. The computer also has a mechanism for wirelessly transferring power into the interior space of the computer case, and a switch that controls power in the computer without having any physical structure extending through any of the plurality of walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel ATTLESEY
  • Publication number: 20110267768
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooled computer that includes a seamless, extruded main body used to form a liquid-tight case holding a cooling liquid that submerges components of the computer. By forming the main body as a seamless extrusion, the number of possible leakage paths from the resulting liquid-tight case is reduced. No seams are provided on the main body, and there are no openings through the walls of the main body, so liquid cannot leakage through the main body. Any leakage paths are limited to joints between the main body and end walls which are sealingly attached to the main body to form the liquid-tight case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel ATTLESEY
  • Patent number: 8009419
    Abstract: A portable, self-contained liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices, including cooling heat-generating components in computer systems and other systems that use electronic, heat-generating components. The electronic device includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid, and a pump for pumping the liquid into and out of the space, to and from a heat exchanger that is fixed to the housing outside the interior space. The heat exchanger includes a cooling liquid inlet, a cooling liquid outlet, and a flow path for cooling liquid therethrough from the cooling liquid inlet to the cooling liquid outlet. An air-moving device such as a fan can be used to blow air across the heat exchanger to increase heat transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, R. Daren Klum, Allen James Berning
  • Publication number: 20110134604
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20110075353
    Abstract: A portable, self-contained liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices, including cooling; heat-generating components in computer systems and other systems that use electronic, heat-generating components. The electronic device includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid, and a pump for pumping the liquid into and out of the space, to and from a heat exchanger that is fixed to the housing outside the interior space. The heat exchanger includes a cooling liquid inlet, a cooling liquid outlet, and a flow path for cooling liquid therethrough from the cooling liquid inlet to the cooling liquid outlet. An air-moving device, such as a fan can be used to blow air across the heat exchanger to increase heat transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, R. Daren Klum, Allen James Berning
  • Patent number: 7911793
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Patent number: 7911782
    Abstract: A portable, self-contained liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices, including cooling heat-generating components in computer systems and other systems that use electronic, heat-generating components. The electronic device includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid, and a pump for pumping the liquid into and out of the space, to and from a heat exchanger that is fixed to the housing outside the interior space. The heat exchanger includes a cooling liquid inlet, a cooling liquid outlet, and a flow path for cooling liquid therethrough from the cooling liquid inlet to the cooling liquid outlet. An air-moving device such as a fan can be used to blow air across the heat exchanger to increase heat transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, R. Daren Klum, Allen James Berning
  • Patent number: 7905106
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20100246118
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and IO connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey
  • Publication number: 20100226094
    Abstract: Dielectric liquid is used to cool heat generating electronic components disposed on a circuit board within a case. The liquid is poured or otherwise directed over the electronic components, with gravity assisting the liquid in flowing downward over the components, with the liquid thereafter being collected in a sump for eventual return back to the electronic components. One exemplary application of the described concepts is in cooling electronic components in computers, for example personal computers or server computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, Scott Williamson, Wayne Fjerstad
  • Patent number: 7724517
    Abstract: A case for a liquid submersion cooled computer includes a plurality of walls defining a liquid-tight interior space. At least a portion of one of the walls is made of a material that permits viewing of objects, for example, a motherboard, within the interior space. A removable lid closes the top of the interior space. The lid forms a liquid-tight seal with the plurality of walls, and the lid includes a sealed electrical connector fixed thereto that is configured to attach to the motherboard disposed in the interior space and to provide electrical connection between the motherboard and an exterior of the case. The case can include a drain valve for draining liquid from the case. Further, the lid can have an opening for introducing liquid into the interior space, and a handle to facilitate lifting of the lid along with the motherboard connected to the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Hardcore Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Daniel Attlesey, R. Daren Klum, Allen James Berning
  • Publication number: 20090260777
    Abstract: A liquid submersion cooling system that is suitable for cooling a number of electronic devices in parallel using a plurality of cases connected to a rack system. The system cools heat-generating components in server computers and other devices that use electronic, heat-generating components and are connected in parallel systems. The system includes a housing having an interior space, a dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, a heat-generating electronic component disposed within the space and submerged in the dielectric cooling liquid. The rack system contains a manifold system to engage and allow liquid transfer for multiple cases and 10 connectors to engage electrically with multiple cases/electronic devices. The rack system can be connected to a pump system for pumping the liquid into and out of the rack, to and from external heat exchangers, heat pumps, or other thermal dissipation/recovery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: HARDCORE COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Daniel Attlesey