Patents by Inventor Paul Douglas Bashor

Paul Douglas Bashor 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).

  • Method and apparatus for detecting heat sink faults
    Patent number: 7346468
    Abstract: Detecting, predicting, and diagnosing faults in a cooling system. According to one embodiment, a heat sink is in thermal contact with a heat-generating electronic component. When a temperature differential between the electronic component and the heat sink exceeds a set point, a fault signal is generated. The set point may be empirically or theoretically determined. The set point may be a static set point, or it may be a dynamic set point determined according to real-time operational parameters of the system. The system may be implemented with predictive failure analysis (PFA) to provide a more reliable, efficient, inexpensive, and robust computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Bashor, Henry Gaines McMillan, Challis Llewellyn Purrington, Michael Leo Scollard, Victor A. Stankevich
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING HEAT SINK FAULTS
    Publication number: 20080040067
    Abstract: Detecting, predicting, and diagnosing faults in a cooling system. According to one embodiment, a heat sink is in thermal contact with a heat-generating electronic component. When a temperature differential between the electronic component and the heat sink exceeds a set point, a fault signal is generated. The set point may be empirically or theoretically determined. The set point may be a static set point, or it may be a dynamic set point determined according to real-time operational parameters of the system. The system may be implemented with predictive failure analysis (PFA) to provide a more reliable, efficient, inexpensive, and robust computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Bashor, Henry Gaines McMillan, Challis Llewellyn Purrington, Michael Leo Scollard, Victor A. Stankevich