Abstract: An information handling system with an antenna cooling system, comprising a processor; a memory; a power management unit (PMU) operatively coupled to the processor; a wireless interface adapter with a radio module within a chassis of the information handling system; and an active antenna system with an antenna mounted at an aperture in a wall of the chassis of the information handling system; a thermally conductive and radio frequency (RF) transparent window formed seamlessly within the aperture in the wall of the chassis of the information handling system and where the thermally conductive and RF transparent window is configured to permit antenna RF transmission while dissipating heat generated by the active antenna system.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a method for applying a thermal interface material (TIM) to a heat sink involves treating a plurality of sections of a base layer around at least a portion of a perimeter of the heat sink to form a continuous roughness edge and positioning the TIM relative to the heat sink such that the TIM extends for contact with the roughness edge. The roughness edge is based on reducing the adhesion force between the TIM and the base layer, wherein the TIM is easier to remove from the roughness edge, resulting in easier and cleaner removal of the TIM from the heat sink.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a hardware processor, a memory device, and a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device. The information handling system includes an ion emitter/collector cooling system including an ion emitter and an ion collector, the ion emitter to generate ions from the atmosphere and the ion collector to collect and deionize those ions, the creation of ions by the ion emitter creating an airflow through and out of the ion collector and at least one sensor to detect and measure at least one non-static ozone predictor measurement describing ozone production at the ion emitter/collector cooling system. Further, the processor executing code instructions of an intelligent ozone estimation and mitigation system including a trained ozone estimation machine learning model to use, as input, the non-static ozone predictor measurement and provide, as output, an ozone estimation value estimating the amount of ozone produced at the ion emitter.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor and a program of instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media, the program of instructions configured to, when read and executed by the processor: determine if an application-related event associated with an executable application has occurred; based on one or more performance profiles, wherein each of the one or more performance profiles are associated with a respective executable application, select an executing application having a highest rank as a selected application; and communicate a selected performance profile associated with the selected application to a management device of the information handling system to cause the management device to apply a temperature limit and an acoustic limit associated with the selected performance profile to the performance of the information handling system.

Abstract: A carbon dioxide (CO2) minimizing refurbishable fan assembly for an information handling system may comprise a refurbishable motor assembly including a re-used bushing mechanically affixed to a re-used exterior housing and disposed through central openings of a re-used printed circuit board assembly and a re-used motor. A replaceable bushing assembly, including a replaceable bearing housed within a replaceable bushing to form a bearing aperture for receiving an impeller drive shaft of an impeller assembly, the re-usable motor for generating an electro-magnetic field for interacting with magnets on the impeller assembly to drive rotation of the impeller assembly when the aligned impeller drive shaft is disposed in a bearing aperture of the replaceable bushing assembly to reduce noise and wear on the impeller drive shaft and the replaceable bushing assembly.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a hardware processor, memory device, power system, and an ion emitter/collector blower cooling system with an ion emitter/collector blower, having an ion emitter and an ion collector, and a cooling fan, where an ionic driving circuit operatively couples high voltage to the ion emitter to create charged ions that generate an airflow along a voltage field to the ion collector. The information handling system further includes a hardware embedded controller to execute code instructions of a contextual cooling system switching system, the contextual cooling device switching system operating the ion emitter/collector blower and cooling fan based on plurality of contextual inputs including characterizing workload values under which the information handling system is being operated by the user that are input into a trained machine learning algorithm to generate instructions when to activate ion emitter/collector blower and cooling fan.

Abstract: An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display and a magnet included in the camera housing. A metallic inner frame couples a camera assembly at one end of a cylindrical housing and the magnet is at an opposing end. A thermal spreader of thermally conductive material has at tapered conical shape with substantially two degrees of taper before assembly into the cylindrical housing. Insertion of the tapered thermal spreader compress the larger circumference to press the thermal spreader uniformly out and against an inner surface of the cylindrical housing.

Abstract: An information handling system (IHS) includes a hardware processor, memory device, and a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the processor and memory device. The IHS further includes a fan and fan motor operatively coupled to a motor driver hardware operated by the hardware processor and an ion emitter/collector blower cooling system including an ion emitter/collector blower, the ion emitter/collector blower including an ion emitter and an ion collector placed in fluidic series with the fan and an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter via a high voltage to ionize gases at the ion emitter/collector blower to create charged ions that generate an airflow along a voltage field to and through the ion collector.

Abstract: Systems and methods for smart power and fan speed control are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and an embedded controller (EC) coupled to the processor, where the EC is configured to control an operating aspect of a cooling fan based upon a heat rejection or dissipation of a heatsink coupled to the processor. In some other embodiments, a method can include calculating a heat rejection or dissipation of a heatsink coupled to a heat producing component of an IHS by determining a difference between a heatsink temperature and an ambient temperature, and: (i) dividing the difference by a thermal resistance of the heatsink, or (ii) multiplying the difference by a thermal conductance of the heatsink; and adjusting a rotation speed of a fan configured to cool the heat producing component based upon the calculation.

Abstract: A portable information handling system executes an application, such as a game, that generates audio information for presentation at multiple speakers through multiple channels. An audio vector engine analyzes the channels to derive a direction and distance associated with the audio information so that a visual cue of the relative location of the origin of the audio information may be presented at a display. In one embodiment, the display is a secondary display having a transparent view into the information handling system. In another embodiment, the direction and distance to a sound origin is presented over a map of a game in which the sound originated, such as a shot fired in a game.

Abstract: An information handling system comprising a hardware processor, a display device, and a memory device that includes a stacked ion emitter/collector blower cooling system with a first ion emitter/collector blower having a first ion emitter and a first ion collector and a second ion emitter/collector blower with a second ion emitter and a second ion collector, where the second ion emitter/collector blower is placed at a location within the chassis of the information handling system vertically higher than the first ion emitter/collector blower. The first ion emitter/collector blower and second ion emitter/collector blower include an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the first ion emitter and the second ion emitter via a high voltage to ionize gases within the first ion emitter/collector blower and second ion emitter/collector blower to create charged ions that generate a stacked emitter airflow to cool the chassis of the information handling system.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor and a program of instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media, the program of instructions configured to, when read and executed by the processor: receive a touch temperature limit parameter indicative of a temperature limit; receive an acoustic noise limit parameter indicative of an acoustic noise limit; determine an estimated power capacity limit parameter indicative of an estimated power limit based on the touch temperature limit parameter and the acoustic noise limit parameter; and determine an estimated performance capability parameter based on the estimated power capacity limit parameter.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor, a memory device, and a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device. The information handling system further includes an emitter-assisted heatpipe including an enclosed hollow chamber to house a working fluid capable of being vaporized upon application of heat at an evaporator end of the heatpipe, an ion emitter placed at the evaporator end of the heatpipe where the working fluid is vaporized upon application of heat to create a vapor within the enclosed hollow chamber of the heatpipe, the ion emitter to create ions within the vapor, an ion collector placed at a condenser end of the emitter-assisted heatpipe where the vapor condenses into a liquid, and an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter, the generated ions to be attracted to the ion collector creating an ionic airflow of the vapor within the emitter-assisted heatpipe.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a hardware processor, a memory device, and a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device. The information handling system includes an ion emitter/collector cooling system including an ion emitter and an ion collector, the ion emitter to generate ions from the atmosphere and the ion collector to collect and deionize those ions, the creation of ions by the ion emitter creating an airflow through and out of the ion collector and at least one sensor to detect and measure at least one non-static ozone predictor measurement describing ozone production at the ion emitter/collector cooling system. Further, the processor executing code instructions of an intelligent ozone estimation and mitigation system including a trained ozone estimation machine learning model to use, as input, the non-static ozone predictor measurement and provide, as output, an ozone estimation value estimating the amount of ozone produced at the ion emitter.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor, a memory device, a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device, and a battery operatively coupled to the PMU.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor, a memory device, and a PMU to provide power to the processor and memory device. The information handling system further includes an ion emitter/collector blower cooling system including an ion emitter including an inner ring of vertically arranged ion emitter blades and an ion collector including an outer ring of vertically arranged ion collector blades. The cooling system includes an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter to couple a first voltage to the ion collector blades to ionize gases at the ion emitter to create charged ions and the ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion collector to apply a second voltage to attract the charged ions from the ion emitter to create an airflow, the airflow passing through the outer ring and out of an external opening of an ion emitter/collector housing of the ion emitter/collector blower cooling system.

Abstract: An information handling system (IHS) includes an ion emitter/collector blower cooling system including an ion emitter and an ion collector, the ion emitter/collector blower system being placed at a location within a chassis of the IHS vertically lower than the hardware processor in the chassis. The IHS includes an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter via a high voltage to ionize gases within the ion emitter/collector blower housing and create charged ions that generate an airflow along a voltage field to and through an ion collector.

Abstract: Disclosed methods and system feature or perform operations including monitoring, within an operating system (OS) environment of an information handling system, telemetry data indicative of values for one or more hardware status parameters and generating any of one or more anomaly alerts responsive to identifying any of one or more anomalous conditions. Responsive to detecting an anomaly alert, an OS-context configuration may be determined based on the hardware status parameters monitored during a timebox associated with the anomaly alert. Responsive to detecting a reset of the information handling system, preboot operations may be performed wherein the pre-boot operations may include configuring the information handling system in accordance with the OS-context configuration and performing one or more hardware diagnostic routines while the information handling system is configured in accordance with the OS-context configuration.

Abstract: Disclosed methods and system feature or perform operations including monitoring, within an operating system (OS) environment of an information handling system, telemetry data indicative of values for one or more hardware status parameters and generating any of one or more anomaly alerts responsive to identifying any of one or more anomalous conditions. Responsive to detecting an anomaly alert, an OS-context configuration may be determined based on the hardware status parameters monitored during a timebox associated with the anomaly alert. Responsive to detecting a reset of the information handling system, preboot operations may be performed wherein the pre-boot operations may include configuring the information handling system in accordance with the OS-context configuration and performing one or more hardware diagnostic routines while the information handling system is configured in accordance with the OS-context configuration.

Abstract: A cooling system for an information handling system in a portable chassis comprises a vapor chamber for transferring heat away from components, a porous heat exchanger for receiving heat from the vapor chamber, an air pump of receiving airflow at a first air pressure and generating a second airflow at a second air pressure greater than the first airflow. The porous heat exchanger may comprise one of a plurality of sides of an internal air chamber configured to allow the air pump to generate the second air pressure two to three orders of magnitude greater than the first air pressure. An air pump such as a piezoelectric air pump can generate airflow at a pressure that is two to three orders of magnitude greater than possible using a traditional blower.