Patents by Inventor Eric Michael TUNKS

Eric Michael TUNKS 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).

  • Publication number: 20240237294
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, a data processing system may include hardware components that provide the computer implemented services. Any of the hardware components may have a limited thermal operating range. To retain the temperatures of hardware components within their operating ranges, the data processing system may include heat sinks fitted to the hardware components that are both able to cool and warm the fitted hardware components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, JULIAN YU-HAO CHEN, MICHAEL ALBERT PERKS
  • Publication number: 20240231319
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. The data processing system may implement a distributed management framework for managing the operation of a thermal management subsystem tasked with maintaining the temperatures of the hardware components through heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: DONALD W. GERHART, ALARIC JOAQUIM NARCISSIUS SILVEIRA, ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, BALAMURUGAN GNANASAMBANDAM, CURTIS RAY GENZ, RANDY ALTON FRAZIER, JEFFREY LEIGHTON KENNEDY
  • Publication number: 20240237267
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer-implemented services. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate within certain thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components, a fan may circulate air through the data processing system when the temperatures fall outside the thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components more efficiently, higher air flow rates may be desired. To increase air flow rates, a three-dimensional ventilation port may be implemented to de-constrict air flow when air enters or exits the data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, JULIAN YU-HAO CHEN, SHUN-CHENG HSU, AUSTIN MICHAEL SHELNUTT
  • Publication number: 20240179874
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer-implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components that generate heat may be used. To manage the heat generated by the hardware components, a heat sink assembly may be used. The heat sink assembly may include features for adjusting its shape and/or size to accommodate other nearby components. By accommodating other components, the heat sink assembly may be used in spaces that would otherwise be unusable for thermal dissipation purposes due to the risk of mechanical interference between the heat sink assembly and the other components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: TIMOTHY M. LAMBERT, ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, DANIEL ALVARADO
  • Publication number: 20240134350
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. The data processing system may implement a distributed management framework for managing the operation of a thermal management subsystem tasked with maintaining the temperatures of the hardware components through heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: DONALD W. GERHART, ALARIC JOAQUIM NARCISSIUS SILVEIRA, ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, BALAMURUGAN GNANASAMBANDAM, CURTIS RAY GENZ, RANDY ALTON FRAZIER, JEFFREY LEIGHTON KENNEDY
  • Publication number: 20240138117
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, a data processing system may include hardware components that provide the computer implemented services. Any of the hardware components may have a limited thermal operating range. To retain the temperatures of hardware components within their operating ranges, the data processing system may include heat sinks fitted to the hardware components that are both able to cool and warm the fitted hardware components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, JULIAN YU-HAO CHEN, MICHAEL ALBERT PERKS
  • Publication number: 20240138097
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer-implemented services. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate within certain thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components, a fan may circulate air through the data processing system when the temperatures fall outside the thermal dissipation requirements. To regulate the temperature of the hardware components more efficiently, higher air flow rates may be desired. To increase air flow rates, a three-dimensional ventilation port may be implemented to de-constrict air flow when air enters or exits the data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: ERIC MICHAEL TUNKS, JULIAN YU-HAO CHEN, SHUN-CHENG HSU, AUSTIN MICHAEL SHELNUTT
  • Publication number: 20210227636
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an enclosure that includes a plurality of mounting features that are configured to receive information handling systems; one or more environmental sensors configured to determine environmental conditions associated with the enclosure; a position sensor configured to determine a geodetic location of the enclosure; a heater configured to heat the enclosure; and a heater control system. The heater control system may be configured to: receive information regarding an origin for the enclosure, a destination for the enclosure, and a desired destination temperature for the enclosure; establish a model for the enclosure, wherein the model incorporates data from the one or more environmental sensors and data from the position sensor; and based on the model, predictively determining control parameters for the heater configured to cause the enclosure to reach the desired destination temperature at or before a time of arrival at the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven EMBLETON, Eric Michael TUNKS, Brian M. HAHN, Chris M. HELBERG
  • Publication number: 20170168535
    Abstract: A method determines power supply unit configurations in an information handling system. The method includes determining, via a controller, a first amount of power required to operate functional components of the IHS. A history table is retrieved containing a plurality of power supply unit (PSU) configurations and PSU data. The method further includes determining if the history table contains a first PSU configuration corresponding to the first amount of power. In response to determining that the history table contains the first PSU configuration corresponding to the first amount of power, the PSUs identified as active mode PSUs in the first PSU configuration are triggered to be in an active mode and operating at the corresponding percentage load and the PSUs identified as sleep mode PSUs in the first PSU configuration are triggered to be in a sleep mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.
    Inventors: Dinesh Kunnathur RAGUPATHI, Alaric Joaquim Narcissius SILVEIRA, Eric Michael TUNKS, John Ervin JENNE