Patents by Inventor ALAN DONALD GILLOOLY
ALAN DONALD GILLOOLY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11221154Abstract: A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert David Wilding, Peter George Ross, Geri-Ann Quinlivan, Alan Donald Gillooly, Sean Patrick Abbott
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Patent number: 10684660Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John William Eichelberg, Brock Robert Gardner, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 10231358Abstract: A trim cooling assembly provides a sensible trim cooling capability for intake air provided to a downstream computing pod that includes an air cooling system that provides cooling air to computer systems in the pod. The air cooling system can evaporatively chill received intake air to provide the cooling air. The trim cooling assembly is mounted externally to the computing pod and upstream of the air cooling system and includes one or more trim cooling units that can be individually controlled to provide adjustable sensible chilling of the intake air. The trim cooling units and an evaporative cooling unit in the air cooling system can be controlled to provide various levels of sensible and evaporative cooling to maintain conditions of air downstream of the evaporative cooling unit within certain ranges. Trim cooling units can be progressively activated and de-activated in stages to provide progressively adjusted sensible cooling.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alan Donald Gillooly, Serey Kim, Matthew Thomas Phillips
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Patent number: 10201116Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing that at least substantially encapsulates an interior space, and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack in the interior space. The data center can further include a cooling system. The cooling system includes a conduit that is disposed in the interior space of the rack housing and a fluid that flows through the conduit, wherein heat is transferred from air in the interior space to the fluid to produce cooled air in the rack housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, Matthew David Striffler, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Publication number: 20190032938Abstract: A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Robert David Wilding, Peter George Ross, Geri-Ann Quinlivan, Alan Donald Gillooly, Sean Patrick Abbott
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Patent number: 10154614Abstract: A preheat damper preheats ambient air being directed to an air handling unit of a data center to mitigate ice accumulation caused by the ambient air. The ambient air can be preheated upstream of a mist eliminator, which removes moisture from the ambient air upstream of the air handling unit, to mitigate ice accumulation in the mist eliminator. The preheat damper directs exhaust air from an exhaust air plenum. The preheat damper can be adjusted based on the ambient temperature, and can be upstream of a return damper which directs exhaust air from the exhaust air plenum based on characteristics of the cooling air supplied to cool data center equipment. The return damper can be adjusted in counter-opposition with one or more intake dampers to maintain cooling air characteristics, and concurrently with the preheat damper to direct ambient air to the air handling unit through the exhaust air plenum.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Phillips, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 10088181Abstract: A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert David Wilding, Peter George Ross, Geri-Ann Quinlivan, Alan Donald Gillooly, Sean Patrick Abbott
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Patent number: 10070561Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John William Eichelberg, Brock Robert Gardner, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 9888614Abstract: A data center row infrastructure module enables rapid deployment of a computing room enclosure for computer systems that provides intake air circulation to, and exhaust air removal from, the computer systems in the enclosure. The data center row infrastructure module includes free-standing exhaust plenum structures encompassing opposite sides of the enclosure and a plenum module spanning a top end of the enclosure between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Each free-standing exhaust plenum structure includes an internal exhaust air plenum that directs exhaust air received from the enclosure through an exhaust air outlet on a top end of the free-standing exhaust plenum structure. The plenum module establishes a bottom end of a cooling air plenum above and separate from the enclosure and between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Some plenum modules can direct cooling air directly to the enclosure as intake air.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, Matthew Thomas Phillips, Alan Donald Gillooly, Paul Andrew Churnock
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Patent number: 9759457Abstract: Methods for and systems of controlling operation of one or more chillers in a primary-secondary chiller plant system. The chillers utilize a set point temperature that is based upon measuring a temperature of water at a supply side of the load on the secondary loop.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 9690337Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John William Eichelberg, Brock Robert Gardner, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Publication number: 20170176029Abstract: A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Robert David Wilding, Peter George Ross, Geri-Ann Quinlivan, Alan Donald Gillooly, Sean Patrick Abbott
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Patent number: 9681588Abstract: A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John William Eichelberg, Brock Robert Gardner, Alan Donald Gillooly
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Patent number: 9585289Abstract: A system for cooling heat producing components in a building includes a duct coupled to a room of the building and one or more air moving devices. The duct includes a constricted section. The air moving devices move air through the constricted section of the duct such that water in the air is converted from water vapor to water droplets. The water droplets are carried downstream from the constricted section in a two-phase mixture comprising air and water.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, William Charles Bauerle, Alan Donald Gillooly, Christopher Alon Goodnow
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Publication number: 20160302328Abstract: A system for cooling heat producing components in a building includes a duct coupled to a room of the building and one or more air moving devices. The duct includes a constricted section. The air moving devices move air through the constricted section of the duct such that water in the air is converted from water vapor to water droplets. The water droplets are carried downstream from the constricted section in a two-phase mixture comprising air and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, William Charles Bauerle, Alan Donald Gillooly, Christopher Alon Goodnow
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Patent number: 9372516Abstract: A system for cooling heat producing components in a building includes a duct coupled to a room of the building and one or more air moving devices. The duct includes a constricted section. The air moving devices move air through the constricted section of the duct such that water in the air is converted from water vapor to water droplets. The water droplets are carried downstream from the constricted section in a two-phase mixture comprising air and water.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, William Charles Bauerle, Alan Donald Gillooly, Christopher Alon Goodnow
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Patent number: 9357681Abstract: A data center row infrastructure module enables rapid deployment of a computing room enclosure for computer systems that provides intake air circulation to, and exhaust air removal from, the computer systems in the enclosure. The data center row infrastructure module includes free-standing exhaust plenum structures encompassing opposite sides of the enclosure and a plenum module spanning a top end of the enclosure between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Each free-standing exhaust plenum structure includes an internal exhaust air plenum that directs exhaust air received from the enclosure through an exhaust air outlet on a top end of the free-standing exhaust plenum structure. The plenum module establishes a bottom end of a cooling air plenum above and separate from the enclosure and between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Some plenum modules can direct cooling air directly to the enclosure as intake air.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Peter George Ross, Matthew Thomas Phillips, Alan Donald Gillooly, Paul Andrew Churnock
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Publication number: 20150342094Abstract: A data center row infrastructure module enables rapid deployment of a computing room enclosure for computer systems that provides intake air circulation to, and exhaust air removal from, the computer systems in the enclosure. The data center row infrastructure module includes free-standing exhaust plenum structures encompassing opposite sides of the enclosure and a plenum module spanning a top end of the enclosure between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Each free-standing exhaust plenum structure includes an internal exhaust air plenum that directs exhaust air received from the enclosure through an exhaust air outlet on a top end of the free-standing exhaust plenum structure. The plenum module establishes a bottom end of a cooling air plenum above and separate from the enclosure and between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Some plenum modules can direct cooling air directly to the enclosure as intake air.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: PETER GEORGE ROSS, MATTHEW THOMAS PHILLIPS, ALAN DONALD GILLOOLY, PAUL ANDREW CHURNOCK
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Publication number: 20140338865Abstract: A system for cooling heat producing components in a building includes a duct coupled to a room of the building and one or more air moving devices. The duct includes a constricted section. The air moving devices move air through the constricted section of the duct such that water in the air is converted from water vapor to water droplets. The water droplets are carried downstream from the constricted section in a two-phase mixture comprising air and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: PETER GEORGE ROSS, WILLIAM CHARLES BAUERLE, ALAN DONALD GILLOOLY, CHRISTOPHER ALON GOODNOW