Patents by Inventor Jimmy Clidaras
Jimmy Clidaras 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: 11297737Abstract: A method of cooling electronic equipment is disclosed and includes substantially continuously circulating ambient air across a plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, monitoring the temperature of air in or around a group of devices in the plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, and providing substantially cooler-than-ambient air to the group of devices when the monitored air temperatures rises above a set value.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung
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Patent number: 11240938Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 11017130Abstract: A method of designing a data center can include determining a design power density, determining an oversubscription ratio, and determining a spatial layout of the data center using the design power density and the oversubscription ratio. The design power density can be in units of power per unit length.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Xiaobo Fan, Luiz Andre Barroso
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Patent number: 10712031Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 10551079Abstract: A system for providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes an evaporative cooling water source; a water-to-water heat exchanger in fluid communication with the evaporative water source; an air-to-water heat exchanger in fluid communication with the water-to-water heat exchanger and positioned to received heated air from a group of electronic devices; and a control system programmed to maintain a supply of cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point of air surrounding the air-to-water heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Carlson, William Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Publication number: 20200037472Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 10440861Abstract: A data center cooling system includes an evaporative cooling system. The evaporative cooling system includes fans configured to circulate outside air at ambient conditions through an entry zone of a data center, and atomizers positioned upstream of the entry zone configured to spray atomized water into the circulating outside air. The atomized water evaporates in an evaporation zone and cools the outside air to produce cooled air, which is directed through racks of computers positioned downstream of the evaporation zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Christopher Gregory Malone, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 10339227Abstract: A method of designing a data center can include determining a design power density, determining an oversubscription ratio, and determining a spatial layout of the data center using the design power density and the oversubscription ratio. The design power density can be in units of power per unit length.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Xiaobo Fan, Luiz Andre Barroso
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Publication number: 20190104649Abstract: A method of cooling electronic equipment is disclosed and includes substantially continuously circulating ambient air across a plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, monitoring the temperature of air in or around a group of devices in the plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, and providing substantially cooler-than-ambient air to the group of devices when the monitored air temperatures rises above a set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung
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Publication number: 20190056130Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 10211630Abstract: A method of providing power to computer systems in a computer data includes receiving high-voltage power from one or more electric utility distribution systems; transforming the high-voltage power to medium-voltage power; and distributing the medium voltage power through a common medium voltage domain that serves a plurality of medium voltage-to-low voltage converters that are located in rows of computer racks in the computer data center.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Cornelius B. O'Sullivan, Anand Ramesh
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Patent number: 10136561Abstract: A method of cooling electronic equipment is disclosed and includes substantially continuously circulating ambient air across a plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, monitoring the temperature of air in or around a group of devices in the plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices, and providing substantially cooler-than-ambient air to the group of devices when the monitored air temperatures rises above a set value.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung
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Patent number: 10107510Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Publication number: 20180224141Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 10013037Abstract: A method for providing electrical power to a computer data center includes generating alternating-current power by a plurality of generators and converting the alternating current power from each of the generators to direct current power; combining the direct current power from each of the generators into a common electrical domain; and supplying the computer data center using the combined direct current power.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Cornelius B. O'Sullivan, Anand Ramesh
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Patent number: 9970670Abstract: A method of providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes capturing heated air from a volume containing electronic equipment, cooling the heated air by more than fifteen degrees Celsius in an air-to-water heat exchanger, and supplying cooling water to the air-to-water heat exchanger at a temperature above a dew point temperature of the heated air.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 9869982Abstract: A system for providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes a cooling system arranged to provide cooling for computer systems in a data center that generate heat from electrical usage; one or more sensors for sensing an environmental condition near the data center; and a central control system programmed to allocate future compute demand for the data center as a function of the sensed environmental condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Anand Ramesh, Christopher G. Malone
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Patent number: 9854712Abstract: A method for providing for conditioning of a computer data center includes supplying a working fluid from a common fluid plane to a plurality of power/cooling units distributed across a data center facility in proximity to electronic equipment that is distributed across the data center facility; converting the working fluid into electric power and cooling capacity at each of the plurality of power/cooling units; and supplying the electric power to a common electric power plane serving a plurality of racks of the electronic equipment in the data center facility and being served by a plurality of the power/cooling units in the data center facility, wherein the common fluid plane serves at least 10 percent of the power/cooling units in the data center facility and the common electric power plane serves at most 5 percent of the electronic equipment in the data center facility.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Anand Ramesh, Jimmy Clidaras, Christopher G. Malone
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Patent number: 9673632Abstract: A method for providing power to a computer data center includes distributing a fluid through a single common domain throughout the computer data center building; converting the fluid into electrical energy at a plurality of electric power generation units that are distributed through the computer data center and connected to receive fluid from the common domain; and providing electrical power from the plurality of power generation units to corresponding electrical loads distributed throughout the computer data center building.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Anand Ramesh, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 9618991Abstract: A method for providing electrical power to a computer data center includes generating alternating-current power by a plurality of generators and converting the alternating current power from each of the generators to direct current power; combining the direct current power from each of the generators into a common electrical domain; and supplying the computer data center using the combined direct current power.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jimmy Clidaras, Cornelius B. O'Sullivan, Anand Ramesh