Patents by Inventor William Hamburgen
William Hamburgen 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: 8553416Abstract: Cooling systems for providing cooled air to electronic equipment are described. The systems can include large storage tanks or waste treatment systems to improve the efficiency of the plant and reduce impact on the environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William Hamburgen, Donald L. Beaty, Robert Wasilewski
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Patent number: 8526183Abstract: A system for cooling a computer data center includes a computer data center building; a plurality of computer racks arranged in a plurality of linear rows inside the computer data center building, with particular ones of the racks housing a plurality of computer systems; a plurality of cooling fluid conduits; and a plurality of cooling plants arranged outside the computer data center building along an exterior wall of the computer data center building. At least one of the cooling plants corresponds to one or more particular ones of the cooling fluid conduits and provides cooling for the corresponding conduit.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Andrew B. Carlson
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Patent number: 8456840Abstract: A rack-mount computer system includes one or more rows of computer racks, wherein each row of computer racks includes a pair of rows of computer racks positioned back-to-back relative to each other, a plurality of computer motherboards mounted in each of the racks in each row of computer racks and having front edges open to a workspace for receiving circulating air over the motherboards, the motherboards positioned to create a warm air plenum near a back edge of each motherboard, and a fan positioned adjacent each of the plurality of computer motherboards to circulate air across the computer motherboards and into the warm air plenum.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Winnie Leung, David W. Stiver, Andrew B. Carlson, Steven T. Y. Chow, Jonathan D. Beck
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Patent number: 8434924Abstract: A backlight for providing light to a computer-controlled display device, includes a plurality of first light sources, a plurality of second light sources, and a light guide panel (LGP). The LGP has at least one edge and a surface facing a display surface of the display device and is adapted for guiding light emitted by, and received from, the first and second light sources at one or more edges of the LGP to the surface of the LGP. The first light sources include first light emitting diodes (LEDs) having a peak emission wavelength of greater than 500 nm. The second light sources include second LEDs having a peak emission wavelength of less than 480 nm and phosphor material that absorbs a portion of light emitted from the second LEDs and converts the absorbed light into light emitted from the phosphor material having a peak emission wavelength greater than 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: William Hamburgen, Ken Foo
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Publication number: 20130107448Abstract: A datacenter cooling apparatus includes a portable housing having lifting and transporting structures for moving the apparatus, opposed sides in the housing, at least one of the opposed sides defining one or more air passage openings arranged to capture warmed air from rack-mounted electronics, opposed ends in the housing, at least one of the opposed ends defining one or more air passage openings positioned to allow lateral passage of captured air into and out of the housing, and one or more cooling coils associated with the housing to receive and cool the captured warm air, and provide the cooled air for circulation into a datacenter workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung, David W. Stiver, Jonathan D. Beck, Andrew B. Carlson, Steven T.Y. Chow, Gregory P. Imwalle, Amir M. Michael
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Publication number: 20130083476Abstract: A computer system may include a connecting hub having a plurality of docking regions and be configured to provide to each docking region electrical power, a data network interface, a cooling fluid supply and a cooling fluid return; and a plurality of shipping containers that each enclose a modular computing environment that incrementally adds computing power to the system. Each shipping container may include a) a plurality of processing units coupled to the data network interface, each of which include a microprocessor; b) a heat exchanger configured to remove heat generated by the plurality of processing units by circulating cooling fluid from the supply through the heat exchanger and discharging it into the return; and c) docking members configured to releaseably couple to the connecting hub at one of the docking regions to receive electrical power, connect to the data network interface, and receive and discharge cooling fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Jimmy Clidaras, William Whitted, William Hamburgen, Montgomery Sykora, Winnie Leung, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 8411439Abstract: A data center cooling system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of computer racks arranged in a plurality of substantially parallel rows, cooling units associated with the computer racks and arranged in substantially parallel rows to cool air warmed by the cooling racks, and cooling fluid supply and return conduits that are divided by isolation valves into a plurality of cooling sub-loops, wherein adjacent cooling units in a common row are supplied from different sub-loops, and individual sub-loops serve cooling units in multiple rows, so as to provide water-side diversity across the cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen
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Publication number: 20130025842Abstract: 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: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 8320125Abstract: A datacenter cooling apparatus includes a portable housing having lifting and transporting structures for moving the apparatus, opposed sides in the housing, at least one of the opposed sides defining one or more air passage openings arranged to capture warmed air from rack-mounted electronics, opposed ends in the housing, at least one of the opposed ends defining one or more air passage openings positioned to allow lateral passage of captured air into and out of the housing, and one or more cooling coils associated with the housing to receive and cool the captured warm air, and provide the cooled air for circulation into a datacenter workspace.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Winnie Leung, David W. Stiver, Jonathan D. Beck, Andrew B. Carlson, Steven T. Y. Chow, Gregory P. Imwalle, Amir M. Michael
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Patent number: 8310205Abstract: A method includes charging a battery to a first percentage of full capacity, where the first percentage of full capacity is above a pre-charge capacity and below the full capacity, monitoring, using a controller, the battery for a predetermined threshold and in response to the battery reaching the predetermined threshold, charging the battery to a second percentage of full capacity, where the second percentage of full capacity is greater than the first percentage of full capacity.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: William Hamburgen
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Patent number: 8295047Abstract: A method of providing utilities to a computer data center is discussed. The method includes initially connecting one or more non-evaporative cooling units to a data center as primary cooling plants, obtaining a government-issued water permit, and after obtaining the government-issued water permit, transitioning primary cooling for the data center to one or more evaporative cooling towers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Andrew B. Carlson
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Patent number: 8276397Abstract: A facility is described that includes one or more enclosures defining an interior space, a plurality of power taps, a plurality of coolant supply taps, and a plurality of coolant return taps. A flow capacity of the supply taps and a flow capacity of the return taps can be approximately equal over a local area of the interior space. The plurality of power taps, the plurality of supply taps, and the plurality of return taps can be divided into a plurality of zones, with taps of each zone are configured to be controllably coupled to a power source or a coolant source independently of the taps of other zones. The taps can be positioned along paths, and paths of the power taps can be spaced from associated proximate paths of supply and return taps by a substantially uniform distance along a substantial length of the first path.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 8223495Abstract: Cooling systems for providing cooled air to electronic devices are described. The systems can include large storage tanks or waste treatment systems to improve the efficiency of the plant and reduce impact on the environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William Hamburgen
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Patent number: 8218322Abstract: A computer system may include a connecting hub having a plurality of docking regions and be configured to provide to each docking region electrical power, a data network interface, a cooling fluid supply and a cooling fluid return; and a plurality of shipping containers that each enclose a modular computing environment that incrementally adds computing power to the system. Each shipping container may include a) a plurality of processing units coupled to the data network interface, each of which include a microprocessor; b) a heat exchanger configured to remove heat generated by the plurality of processing units by circulating cooling fluid from the supply through the heat exchanger and discharging it into the return; and c) docking members configured to releaseably couple to the connecting hub at one of the docking regions to receive electrical power, connect to the data network interface, and receive and discharge cooling fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jimmy Clidaras, William Whitted, William Hamburgen, Montgomery Sykora, Winnie Leung, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 8209993Abstract: 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: June 1, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew Carlson, William Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, William Hamburgen, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty
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Publication number: 20120056481Abstract: Apparatus and associated method and computer program products involve a highly efficient uninterruptible power distribution architecture to support modular processing units. As an illustrative example, a modular processing unit includes an integrated uninterruptible power system in which a PFC-boost AC-to-DC conversion occurs between the utility AC grid and the processing circuit (e.g., microprocessor) loads. In an illustrative data center facility, a power distribution architecture includes a modular array of rack-mountable processing units, each of which has processing circuitry to handle network-related processing tasks. Associated with each modular processing unit is an integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to supply operating power to the network processing circuitry. Each UPS includes a battery selectively connectable across a DC bus, and a AC-to-DC rectifier that converts an AC input voltage to a single output voltage on the DC bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Selver Corhodzic, Andrew Carlson, William H. Whitted, Montgomery Sykora, Ken Krieger, William Hamburgen, Donald L. Beaty, Gerald Aigner, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 8094452Abstract: A facility is described that includes one or more enclosures defining an interior space, a plurality of power taps, a plurality of coolant supply taps, and a plurality of coolant return taps. A flow capacity of the supply taps and a flow capacity of the return taps can be approximately equal over a local area of the interior space. The plurality of power taps, the plurality of supply taps, and the plurality of return taps can be divided into a plurality of zones, with taps of each zone are configured to be controllably coupled to a power source or a coolant source independently of the taps of other zones. The taps can be positioned along paths, and paths of the power taps can be spaced from associated proximate paths of supply and return taps by a substantially uniform distance along a substantial length of the first path.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Andrew B. Carlson, William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras, Donald L. Beaty
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Patent number: 8080900Abstract: Apparatus and associated method and computer program products involve a highly efficient uninterruptible power distribution architecture to support modular processing units. As an illustrative example, a modular processing unit includes an integrated uninterruptible power system in which a PFC-boost AC-to-DC conversion occurs between the utility AC grid and the processing circuit (e.g., microprocessor) loads. In an illustrative data center facility, a power distribution architecture includes a modular array of rack-mountable processing units, each of which has processing circuitry to handle network-related processing tasks. Associated with each modular processing unit is an integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to supply operating power to the network processing circuitry. Each UPS includes a battery selectively connectable across a DC bus, and a AC-to-DC rectifier that converts an AC input voltage to a single output voltage on the DC bus.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Exaflop LLCInventors: Selver Corhodzic, Andrew B. Carlson, William H. Whitted, Montgomery Sykora, Ken Krieger, William Hamburgen, Donald L. Beaty, Gerald Aigner, Jimmy Clidaras
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Patent number: 8018094Abstract: An interim power source includes an energy storage, a switch coupled with the energy storage, and a control circuit coupled with the switch. The switch selects a source of power being delivered out of an output power terminal to an electronic device. The control circuit may cause the switch to select the source of power from at least one of an input power terminal and the energy storage. The input power terminal may include a main power source and a backup or secondary power source.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Benchiao Jai, William H. Whitted, William Hamburgen
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Publication number: 20110207391Abstract: A system for providing air circulation to rack-mounted computers can include a plurality of rack-mounted computers on a plurality of motherboards, each motherboard having a front end near a work space and a back end; one or more fans associated with the plurality of motherboards and adapted to deliver heated air from the computers to a common warm-air plenum; and one or more motor controllers coupled to the plurality of fans and adapted to maintain a substantially constant sensed exhaust temperature for air moved by the fans.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: Exaflop LLCInventors: William Hamburgen, William Whitted, Jimmy Clidaras, Andrew Carlson, Gerald Aigner, Donald L. Beaty