Patents by Inventor James William VanGilder
James William VanGilder 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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Publication number: 20240114668Abstract: Examples of the disclosure include a method comprising receiving information-technology-device information indicative of IT equipment and including information-technology-device-location information and temperature information; determining, based on the information-technology-device information, an IT-equipment-cooling assessment; receiving cooling-unit information indicative of air output by the IT equipment to the cooling units and/or provided by the cooling units to the IT equipment; determining, based on the cooling-unit information, a cooling-airflow-return effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units capture air output by the IT equipment and/or a cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units provide air to the IT equipment; and displaying a simulation display depicting the IT equipment, an effectiveness indicator for the cooling-airflow-return effectiveness and/or the cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness, and a respective IT indicator for each IT-Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
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Patent number: 11812590Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of informaType: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
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Publication number: 20230247802Abstract: A thermal buffering module is used in a combined equipment and cooling unit including a housing defining an interior configured to receive electronic equipment, with the electronic equipment being supported by the housing. The combined equipment and cooling unit further includes a cooling unit supported by the housing. The thermal buffering module includes at least one heat exchanger. The thermal buffering module is configured to selectively receive chilled air from the cooling unit to cool the at least one heat exchanger and to selectively receive warm IT air from the electronic equipment to cool the warm IT air as it travels over the at least one heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: John H. Bean, Jr., James William VanGilder, Roy L. Grantham
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Publication number: 20230189474Abstract: A system for determining and displaying air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a model of a layout of equipment within an IT room, define a primary computational grid including base grid cells with dimensions having a first ratio, define a set of computational grid origin offsets for the model, determine a hybrid computational grid having base grid cells, an origin offset selected from among the set of computational grid origin offsets, and a variable grid for the model associated with the computational grid origin offset having a lowest penalty score, perform a computational fluid dynamics analysis of the model utilizing the hybrid computational grid, and provide a display in a graphical user interface illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: James William VanGilder, Wei Tian, Michael B. Condor
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Patent number: 11582887Abstract: One aspect is directed to a system for controlling airflow in a facility having a ceiling-ducted aisle airflow containment system having a first damper system for controlling airflow. The system includes an input to receive parameters related to airflow in the facility, wherein the parameters include at least one airflow resistance value for a device in the facility, an output to provide output data including at least one setting for one or more controllable devices in the facility, and one or more processors configured to receive the parameters related to airflow, determine airflow values associated with the airflow containment system and based on the airflow values, generate the at least one setting for the one or more controllable devices, including at least one setting for the first damper system.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventor: James William VanGilder
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Patent number: 11570934Abstract: A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James William VanGilder, Yatharth Kishor Vaishnani
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Patent number: 11514215Abstract: Systems and methods for a compact wall model are provided. According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method that comprises receiving input data related to an enclosure, the input data including solar intensity data on an exterior of a wall of the enclosure, generating, by a processor, a thermal model of a wall of the enclosure based at least in part on the input data, the wall modeled as having a plurality of layers and the thermal model including a plurality of nodes such that each layer of the plurality of layers is associated with at least one node of the plurality of nodes and each node of the plurality of nodes is thermally coupled to an adjacent node by a thermal resistance, solving, by the processor, an energy balance equation for the at least one node to determine a predicted temperature for the at least one node, and output the predicted temperature to a display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James William VanGilder, Zachary M. Pardey, Christopher M. Healey
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Patent number: 11503744Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Jane E. Morgan, Neil Rasmussen, James William VanGilder, Mikkel Dalgas, Edward M. Ives, Morten Bock, Brad T. Hammond, Todd J. Giaquinto
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Publication number: 20220183191Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of informaType: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
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Publication number: 20220151109Abstract: A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: James William VanGilder, Yatharth Kishor Vaishnani
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Publication number: 20220137805Abstract: Methods and systems for designing a liquid cooled IT room architecture for an IT room include receiving a design parameter, responsive to a user input, corresponding to at least one equipment rack in the IT room, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature Thin in the architecture based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically calculating and displaying at least one of a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture or an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
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Patent number: 11246240Abstract: A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James William VanGilder, Yatharth Kishor Vaishnani
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Patent number: 11188214Abstract: Methods and systems for designing liquid cooled IT room architectures for an IT room using a graphical user interface include simultaneously displaying a configuration region and a results region in the graphical user interface, receiving a design parameter responsive to a user input of one of a plurality of user-selectable graphical user interface elements, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically displaying in the results region at least one of a first graph representing an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room or a second graph representing a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
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Publication number: 20210329812Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Jane E. Morgan, Neil Rasmussen, James William VanGilder, Mikkel Dalgas, Edward M. Ives, Morten Bock, Brad T. Hammond, Todd J. Giaquinto
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Publication number: 20210303145Abstract: Methods and systems for designing liquid cooled IT room architectures for an IT room using a graphical user interface include simultaneously displaying a configuration region and a results region in the graphical user interface, receiving a design parameter responsive to a user input of one of a plurality of user-selectable graphical user interface elements, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically displaying in the results region at least one of a first graph representing an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room or a second graph representing a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
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Patent number: 11076507Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining data center resource requirements, such as cooling and power requirements, and for monitoring performance of data center resource systems, such as cooling and power systems, in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available data center resources, such as power and cooling, at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Jane E. Morgan, Neil Rasmussen, James William VanGilder, Mikkel Dalgas, Edward M. Ives, Morten Bock, Brad T. Hammond, Todd J. Giaquinto
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Publication number: 20210185858Abstract: A system for determining and displaying in a graphical user interface one or more of air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack comprises a processor configured to receive an input comprising airflow resistance parameters through the rack, an IT equipment airflow parameter, a heat-dissipation parameter, an external pressure, and an external temperature, to run the input through a flow-network solver that solves for airflow velocities through at least one face of the rack and a rack air outflow temperature based on the input, provide an output including the airflow velocities and the rack air outflow temperature, and generate, based on the output, a display in a graphical user interface of the system illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: James William VanGilder, Yatharth Kishor Vaishnani
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Patent number: 10952353Abstract: A thermal buffering module is used in a combined equipment and cooling unit including a housing defining an interior configured to receive electronic equipment, with the electronic equipment being supported by the housing. The combined equipment and cooling unit further includes a cooling unit supported by the housing. The thermal buffering module includes at least one heat exchanger. The thermal buffering module is configured to selectively receive chilled air from the cooling unit to cool the at least one heat exchanger and to selectively receive warm IT air from the electronic equipment to cool the warm IT air as it travels over the at least one heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: John H. Bean, Jr., James William VanGilder, Roy L. Grantham
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Publication number: 20210059077Abstract: A thermal buffering module is used in a combined equipment and cooling unit including a housing defining an interior configured to receive electronic equipment, with the electronic equipment being supported by the housing. The combined equipment and cooling unit further includes a cooling unit supported by the housing. The thermal buffering module includes at least one heat exchanger. The thermal buffering module is configured to selectively receive chilled air from the cooling unit to cool the at least one heat exchanger and to selectively receive warm IT air from the electronic equipment to cool the warm IT air as it travels over the at least one heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: John H. Bean, JR., James William VanGilder, Roy L. Grantham
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Publication number: 20200359532Abstract: One aspect is directed to a system for controlling airflow in a facility having a ceiling-ducted aisle airflow containment system having a first damper system for controlling airflow. The system includes an input to receive parameters related to airflow in the facility, wherein the parameters include at least one airflow resistance value for a device in the facility, an output to provide output data including at least one setting for one or more controllable devices in the facility, and one or more processors configured to receive the parameters related to airflow, determine airflow values associated with the airflow containment system and based on the airflow values, generate the at least one setting for the one or more controllable devices, including at least one setting for the first damper system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventor: James William VanGilder