Patents by Inventor Jon Taylor Fitch

Jon Taylor Fitch 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).

  • Patent number: 11965846
    Abstract: A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on temperature differences between component surface temperature and fluid temperature, a previous component surface temperature and a present component surface temperature and a component surface temperature and a component surface temperature threshold value. Large differences between the component surface temperature and the fluid temperature or between the component surface temperature and a previous component surface temperature or a component surface temperature exceeding a component surface temperature threshold value may indicate contaminants in the fluid that are inhibiting the ability for the component to effectively transfer heat to the fluid. A temperature monitoring system may monitor the temperatures and communicate with a service system to apply corrective measures before the residue can cause significant damage to an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Patent number: 11853024
    Abstract: A computing device of an information handling system includes an environmental control component and an environmental manager. The environmental control components identifies an aggregate amount of corrosion of a component of the information handling system; obtains a rate of corrosion associated with the component; makes a determination that the rate of corrosion indicates that the component will suffer a premature failure; in response to the determination: identifies an environmental control modification that will remediate the premature failure of the component; and updates an operation of the environmental control component based on the environmental control modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
  • Patent number: 11809246
    Abstract: A computing device of an information handling system includes a hardware component. The hardware component is also connected to a trace. The computing device also includes a corrosion management component that is physically connected to the trace. The corrosion management component reduces a rate of corrosion of the trace due to an ambient environment in which the trace resides. The corrosion management component reduces the rate of corrosion by applying an electrical potential to the trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
  • Patent number: 11665853
    Abstract: A computing device of an information handling system includes a computing component and a chassis for housing the computing component. The computing components may be, for example, a portion of a circuit card, hardware device, or other physical structure. The chassis includes an air exchange for receiving gases for thermal management of the computing component and a corrosion management component, physically connected directly to the air exchange, that reduces a rate of corrosion of the air exchange due to the gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Joseph Danny King, Sandor T. Farkas
  • Patent number: 11586262
    Abstract: A method for environmentally managing a computing device of an information handling system includes monitoring an environmental corrosion risk associated with a component of the computing device, a corrosion management component that reduces a rate of corrosion of the component due to an ambient environment in which the component resides by removing condensation from the component is associated with the component; making a determination that the component is associated with the corrosion management component; in response to the determination: estimating a corrosion risk of the component based on: the environmental corrosion risk, and a risk reduction factor associated with the corrosion management component; making a second determination that the corrosion risk of the component indicates a premature failure of the component; and remediating, in response to the second determination, the corrosion risk of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
  • Patent number: 11513934
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a computing device, a computing component of the computing device that is housed in a chassis, and a chilled air filter that reduces a humidity level of a portion of an airflow when the chilled air filter is in an active state. The portion of the airflow thermally manages the computing component. The airflow is received by the chassis via an air receiving exchange and exhausted by the chassis via an air expelling exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch
  • Patent number: 11506633
    Abstract: A defect inspection system includes a storage. The defect inspection system also includes a corrosion enhancing defect manager that obtains a circuit card including a trace that is to be encapsulated by a protective layer adapted to reduce corrosion of the trace; applies a voltage potential to the trace while the circuit card is disposed in a visual indicator bath; obtains an image of the trace while the voltage potential is applied; makes a determination, based on the image, that a visual indicator generated by the visual indicator bath is included in the image; and based on the determination: identifies a portion of the trace corresponding to the visual indicator; and applies encapsulant to the portion of the trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch
  • Patent number: 11503736
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a computing component that is sensitive to corrosion; and a chassis in which the computing component is disposed. The chassis receives an airflow used to thermally manage the computing component, and expels the airflow after thermally managing the computing component. The information handling system also includes an environmental control component that reduces a condensation formation propensity of a portion of the airflow that traverses the chassis proximate to the computing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
  • Publication number: 20220341860
    Abstract: A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on temperature differences between component surface temperature and fluid temperature, a previous component surface temperature and a present component surface temperature and a component surface temperature and a component surface temperature threshold value. Large differences between the component surface temperature and the fluid temperature or between the component surface temperature and a previous component surface temperature or a component surface temperature exceeding a component surface temperature threshold value may indicate contaminants in the fluid that are inhibiting the ability for the component to effectively transfer heat to the fluid. A temperature monitoring system may monitor the temperatures and communicate with a service system to apply corrective measures before the residue can cause significant damage to an information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Patent number: 11470746
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a computing device, the information handling system includes a computing component of the computing device that is housed in a chassis; and a heating component that increases a temperature of a portion of an airflow when the heating component is in an active state, the portion of the airflow thermally manages the computing component by reducing a temperature of the computing component. The airflow is received by the chassis via an air receiving exchange, and exhausted by the chassis via an air expelling exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
  • Patent number: 11435410
    Abstract: A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on current leakage between two combs on a printed circuit board. A first comb is opposite a second comb, wherein each finger of the first comb is positioned between two adjacent fingers on the second comb. The combs are positioned near a heat source in the liquid portion of the fluid. As the fluid boils, contaminants are distilled out of the fluid. Acidic contaminants deposited on either comb may cause metal migration to occur, resulting in bridging between two combs. A current sensor may detect the current leakage and send a signal to allow the information handling system, the fluid, or the cooling system to be serviced before damage occurs to the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Patent number: 11432431
    Abstract: A two-phase cooling apparatus for an information handling system, including a container holding dielectric fluid, the dielectric fluid having a vapor-fluid boundary within the container, the container further containing a printed circuit board (PCB) including computing components, with the dielectric fluid surrounding the PCB and the computing components, the dielectric fluid decreasing a temperature of the PCB by removing heat from the PCB in the form of vaporization; a pump positioned within the container, the pump capturing a portion of vapor of the dielectric fluid, at the vapor-fluid boundary, that results from the vaporization of the dielectric fluid; and a diffuser positioned within the container and coupled to the pump to introduce the captured vapor into the dielectric fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Patent number: 11429165
    Abstract: A system for detecting residue in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on contact resistance. A structure is formed to represent a type of connection between a component and a connector. The structure is positioned near a heat source in the two phase fluid in its liquid state. As the fluid boils, residues are deposited on the structure. An increase in the current resistance across the structure may indicate the presence of a residue or corrosion caused by the residue. Structures may be formed using materials that are similar to existing connections in the information handling system. A heating element may generate more heat than existing components such that the system detects the presence of contaminants with sufficient time to allow less expensive and less intensive corrective measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Publication number: 20220268855
    Abstract: A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on current leakage between two combs on a printed circuit board. A first comb is opposite a second comb, wherein each finger of the first comb is positioned between two adjacent fingers on the second comb. The combs are positioned near a heat source in the liquid portion of the fluid. As the fluid boils, contaminants are distilled out of the fluid. Acidic contaminants deposited on either comb may cause metal migration to occur, resulting in bridging between two combs. A current sensor may detect the current leakage and send a signal to allow the information handling system, the fluid, or the cooling system to be serviced before damage occurs to the information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Publication number: 20220253115
    Abstract: A system for detecting residue in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on contact resistance. A structure is formed to represent a type of connection between a component and a connector. The structure is positioned near a heat source in the two phase fluid in its liquid state. As the fluid boils, residues are deposited on the structure. An increase in the current resistance across the structure may indicate the presence of a residue or corrosion caused by the residue. Structures may be formed using materials that are similar to existing connections in the information handling system. A heating element may generate more heat than existing components such that the system detects the presence of contaminants with sufficient time to allow less expensive and less intensive corrective measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Publication number: 20220252523
    Abstract: A system for detecting residue in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on changes in the intensity of energy reflected off a reflective surface. An energy source is positioned at an incident angle relative to a reflective surface and an intensity sensor is positioned at a target reflected energy angle relative to the reflective surface, wherein the intensity sensor detects light or other energy reflected off the reflective surface. If residues are deposited on the reflective surface, the reflectivity of the residue will change the reflected energy angle or otherwise change the amount of energy reflected toward the sensor. A heating element may generate more heat than existing components such that the system detects the presence of residues with sufficient time to allow less expensive and less intensive corrective measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Patent number: 11402336
    Abstract: A system for detecting residue in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on changes in the intensity of energy reflected off a reflective surface. An energy source is positioned at an incident angle relative to a reflective surface and an intensity sensor is positioned at a target reflected energy angle relative to the reflective surface, wherein the intensity sensor detects light or other energy reflected off the reflective surface. If residues are deposited on the reflective surface, the reflectivity of the residue will change the reflected energy angle or otherwise change the amount of energy reflected toward the sensor. A heating element may generate more heat than existing components such that the system detects the presence of residues with sufficient time to allow less expensive and less intensive corrective measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jon Taylor Fitch, Steven Embleton, David Lyle Moss
  • Publication number: 20220030740
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a computing device, a computing component of the computing device that is housed in a chassis, and a chilled air filter that reduces a humidity level of a portion of an airflow when the chilled air filter is in an active state. The portion of the airflow thermally manages the computing component. The airflow is received by the chassis via an air receiving exchange and exhausted by the chassis via an air expelling exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch
  • Publication number: 20220030745
    Abstract: A chassis includes a first computing component; a second computing component; and an air mover that generates an airflow in the chassis used to thermally manage the first computing component and the second computing component. The chassis also includes an airflow control component that modifies a first portion of the airflow proximate to the first computing component based on a corrosion rate of the first computing component without modifying a second portion of the airflow proximate to the second computing component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch
  • Publication number: 20220027228
    Abstract: A computing device of an information handling system includes an environmental control component and a chassis environmental manager. The chassis environmental manager obtains a temperature of an environment proximate to a component of the information handling system; obtains a humidity level of the proximate environment; obtains, based on the temperature and the humidity level, a corrosion rate of the component; makes a determination that the corrosion rate indicates a premature failure of the component based on a service life of the component; and in response to the determination: obtains an environmental control modification that mitigates the premature failure; and updates an operation of the environmental control component based on the environmental control modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Joseph Danny King, Sandor T. Farkas