With Air Circulating Means Patents (Class 361/694)
  • Patent number: 11714432
    Abstract: An observed operational state can include an operational state of one or more system devices. A sensor can emit, in response to a detected observable condition reflective of a given operational state, a simulated signal reflective of a different operational state as a proxy for the detected condition. A controller receiving such a proxy signal can, at least partially responsively to the proxy signal, issue a command corresponding to the given operational state. An electro-mechanical actuator can be selectively activatable responsive to the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CoolIT Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoff Sean Lyon, Mike Holden
  • Patent number: 11574853
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate, a semiconductor package, a thermal conductive bonding layer, and a lid is provided. The semiconductor package is disposed on the substrate. The thermal conductive bonding layer is disposed on the semiconductor package. The lid is attached to the thermal conductive bonding layer and covers the semiconductor package to prevent coolant from contacting the semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen-Hua Yu, Chun-Hui Yu, Jeng-Nan Hung, Kuo-Chung Yee, Po-Fan Lin
  • Patent number: 11564336
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to be connected to external heat dissipation device and including chassis, heat source and heat dissipation assembly. The heat source is disposed in the chassis. The heat dissipation assembly includes evaporator, condenser and fin assembly. The evaporator is in thermal contact with the heat source. The condenser has outer surface, condensation space and liquid-cooling space. The outer surface faces away from the condensation space and the liquid-cooling space. The condensation space and the liquid-cooling space are not in fluid communication with each other. The condensation space is in fluid communication with the evaporator. The liquid-cooling space is configured to be in fluid communication with the external heat dissipation device. The fin assembly is in thermal contact with the condenser and protrudes from the outer surface of the condenser along direction away from the condensation space or the liquid-cooling space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai-Yang Tung, Hung-Ju Chen
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11399445
    Abstract: An electronic device having a heat dissipation function is proposed. The electronic device includes: a heating element (20); a shield can (30) covering the heating element (20) to block electromagnetic waves; and a heat dissipation means (50) provided to be adjacent to the heating element (20) and causing an ionic wind to flow into a shielded space (32) of an inner part of the shield can (30). Here, the heat dissipation means (50) includes: a wire electrode (70) provided to be adjacent to an entrance of the shielded space (32) of the shield can (30) and becoming an emitter electrode; and a power module (80) connected to the wire electrode (70) and applying voltage to the wire electrode (70), wherein the shield can (30) is grounded at the same time of being connected to the power module (80) and becomes a collector electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minjae Park, SeHyeon Kim, BongJun Kim, MinWoo Jeong, Keunsun Lee
  • Patent number: 11397374
    Abstract: A 360 degree camera device that has a housing and cooling mechanism which manages heat created by the devices components and allows the device to continuously run for at least 24 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: Ivan Onuchin, Dmitry Kozko, Nikolay Shturkin
  • Patent number: 11337338
    Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a printed wiring board (PWB), and a stiffener secured to the PWB. The stiffener includes one or more tray sections. One or more electronic modules is secured respectively to the one or more tray sections of the stiffener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hebri Vijayendra Nayak
  • Patent number: 11197394
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for blocking removal of an air-moving assembly from a housing when in operational state. The apparatus includes a protective louver assembly having a louver(s) and an interlock element(s). The louver(s) is disposed at an air inlet or an air outlet of the air-moving assembly, and pivots between an operational and a quiesced orientation, dependent on presence or absence, respectively, of airflow through the air-moving assembly. The interlock element(s) is associated with the louver(s) to pivot with the louver(s) between the operational orientation and the quiesced orientation. In the operational orientation, the interlock element(s) blocks, at least in part, access to at least one fastener securing the air-moving assembly within the housing, and thereby prevents removal of the air-moving assembly from the chassis when in the operational state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Christopher R. Ciraulo, Milnes P. David, Dustin W. Demetriou, Robert K. Mullady, Roger R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11178793
    Abstract: A framework for in-row cooling is described herein. The cooling system employs a fan unit with a plurality of smaller fans for improving the spread of air flowing through a V-shaped heat exchanger. The use of multiple smaller fans and the V-shaped heat exchanger enables the cooling system to be cooled using ambient temperature water or processed water at ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Rahi Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Kiernan, Paul A. Weber, Tarun Raisoni
  • Patent number: 11162696
    Abstract: A cooling assembly includes a plurality of dry coolers. Each dry cooler has an air intake, an air outtake, a heat exchanger panel for exchanging heat with air pulled into the dry cooler, and a fan rotating about a fan rotation axis for pulling air into the dry cooler and rejecting heated air out of the dry cooler. The heat exchanger panel includes a tubing arrangement for circulating fluid therein. The dry coolers are arranged in a plurality of dry cooler stacks. Each dry cooler stack includes a first dry cooler and a second dry cooler disposed above the first dry cooler. The dry cooler stacks are positioned such that the dry coolers of each dry cooler stack reject heated air into a common heat rejection zone. Each dry cooler is oriented such that the fan rotation axis of the dry cooler is substantially transversal to a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: OVH
    Inventors: Henryk Klaba, Gregory Francis Louis Bauchart, Ali Chehade
  • Patent number: 11158355
    Abstract: A data storage library system includes at least one data storage library, the at least one data storage library comprising at least one library frame, wherein the at least one library frame has at least one environmental conditioning unit configured to control one or more environmental conditions within the at least one library frame. The system also includes at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the at least one library frame, a library controller, and at least one louver, where the louver may be selectively moveable to control a communication pathway for external air to enter the at least one library frame. In one embodiment, the at least one louver may be controlled by the library controller to automatically open when it is detected that the one or more access doors are opened, and to close the louver when the one or more access doors are closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest S. Gale, Icko E. T. Iben, Leonard G. Jesionowski, James M. Karp, Michael P. McIntosh, Shawn M. Nave, Lee C. Randall
  • Patent number: 10925185
    Abstract: A modular data center (MDC) has a cooling unit externally positioned proximate to a first longitudinal external wall of a volumetric container. The cooling unit directs supply air sideways through a supply air opening into a cold aisle adjacent to the first longitudinal external wall. The cooling air passes through rack(s) containing information technology (IT) components to a hot aisle. A baffle positioned within the volumetric container above the rack(s) directs return air from the hot aisle through a return air plenum to a return air opening in the first longitudinal external wall. A shroud coupled to at least one of the volumetric container and the cooling unit receives the sideways directed return air and directs the return air downward into an upwardly open return air inlet of the cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark M. Bailey, Trey S. Wiederhold
  • Patent number: 10841508
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided to monitor electrical equipment. In some implementations, a monitoring system for a cabinet may include an infrared camera and a non-thermal camera. The infrared camera may be configured to capture one or more thermal images of at least a portion of electrical equipment positioned in an interior cavity of the cabinet. The non-thermal camera may be configured to capture one or more non-thermal images such as visible light images of the portion of electrical equipment. In some implementations, combined images may be generated that include characteristics of the thermal images and the non-thermal images for viewing by a user. In some implementations, the cameras may receive electrical power through a physical coupling to an electrical connector within the cabinet and/or through electromagnetic energy harvesting techniques. Other implementations are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Scanlon, Michael Fox, Nicholas Högasten, Theodore R. Hoelter, Katrin Strandemar, Pierre Boulanger, Barbara Sharp, Mark Nussmeier, Eric A. Kurth
  • Patent number: 10812754
    Abstract: A 360 degree camera device that has a housing and cooling mechanism which manages heat created by the devices components and allows the device to continuously run for at least 24 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ivan Onuchin, Dmitry Kozko, Nikolay Shturkin
  • Patent number: 10753667
    Abstract: A branching air supply device for a refrigerator, comprising: a housing provided with at least one air inlet and a plurality of air outlets; an adjusting piece configured to completely shield, partially shield or completely expose each air outlet in a controlled manner, so as to regulate respective air discharging areas of the plurality of air outlets; and an air-feeding device configured to enable air flow to flow into the housing from the at least one air inlet and to flow out of the housing via one or more air outlets of the plurality of the air outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER JOINT STOCK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Zhu, Xueli Cheng, Bin Fei, Riyong Lu
  • Patent number: 10750643
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a chassis that cools thermal energy generating components of an information handling system (IHS) includes: forming an enclosure with a chassis that has a base wall for provisioning a thermal energy generating component; forming one or more stiffeners each having one or more air channels formed transversely through for directing air proximate to the base wall; attaching the one or more stiffeners laterally across the base wall; and attaching a planar member that is horizontally on top of the one or more stiffeners for engaging one or more forward compute components on top of the planar member that substantially block air flow above the planar member to the thermal energy generating component. The one or more air channels eliminate thermal shadowing caused by thermal energy generating components provisioned in a rear area of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Haesung Kwon, Austin Michael Shelnutt, Walter Carver
  • Patent number: 10468010
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of flow guiding structures spatially aligned in a first row, each of the plurality of flow guiding structures comprising a fin-shape to funnel airflow at a trailing edge of each of the plurality of flow guiding structures. The apparatus also includes a plurality of flow separating structures spatially aligned in a second row interleaved between each of the plurality of flow guiding structures, each of the plurality of flow separating structures comprising a fin-shape configured to split airflow received from the plurality of flow guiding structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Yu-Nien Huang, Ching-Yu Chen, Liang-Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 10420238
    Abstract: A housing kit (90) includes a housing body (20) and a ventilation member (10). The housing body (20) has a vent hole (21). The ventilation member (10) has a leg portion (26). The leg portion (26) is a portion adapted to be inserted into the vent hole (21). The housing body (20) has an inner peripheral surface (23) that defines the vent hole (21). The inner peripheral surface (23) includes a first rounded segment (23R1), a first straight segment (23S1), a second rounded segment (23R2), and a second straight segment (23S2) that are formed in order from an exterior space (24) side to an interior space (22) side of the housing body (20). The first rounded segment (23R1) and the second rounded segment (23R2) each form a curve convex toward a central axis (O) of the vent hole (21) in a cross section of the housing body (20) including the central axis (O). The first straight segment (23S1) and the second straight segment (23S2) each form a straight line in this cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kou Uemura, Youzou Yano
  • Patent number: 10406468
    Abstract: A baffle plate filtering system is disclosed which is adapted to be operatively associated with an external housing wall of a piece of machinery or equipment, through which cooling air is to be ingested or inducted in order to cool internal operative components of the machinery or equipment, wherein the baffle plate filtering system will effectively prevent the ingestion or induction of ambient particulates, contaminants, grease, dirt, and the like into the internal regions of the machinery or equipment such that the operative components of the machinery or equipment do not become contaminated or fouled by means of the ambient particulates, contaminants, grease, dirt, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: A. J. ANTUNES & CO.
    Inventor: Ignacio Vega
  • Patent number: 10385876
    Abstract: A vibration-proofed fan frame includes a housing and a base surrounded by the housing. A hollow tube is arranged on the base and has the rotary connection with an impeller of the heat dissipation fan. The base includes a disc and a plurality of ribs extending outwards from periphery of the disc. The fan frame further includes a buffer member within the structural interconnections between the disc and the housing. The buffer member includes first elements. The first elements are embedded in the disc. A heat dissipation fan having the fan frame described is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: CHAMP TECH OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsien-Chou Lin, Xiao-Guang Ma, Yung-Ping Lin, Chien-Nan Cheng, Zheng Luo
  • Patent number: 10231361
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a rack system is configured to comprise a removable fan system. The fan system enables thermal management of the rack system. The removable fan system includes a replaceable fan tray that can be assembled in the rack system by engaging a connecting mechanism and connecting a connecting cable. The fan tray is engaged with the connecting mechanism to be securely attached to the rack system. The fan tray is connected to a bus bar to receive power or necessary data to be operated. The fan tray can be disassembled from the rack system while the bus remains active, and enables access to the server or the rack system. The replaceable fan tray enables easy replacement of the fan system and access to the rear side of the rack system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Chih-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 10201111
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to operating an electronic gaming machine to generate a wager-based game. A game control unit and a secure enclosure are provided. The secure enclosure is divided into two compartments. A game control unit including a game controller and two heat dissipation units is disposed within the first compartment. In a second compartment, which is fluidly coupled to the first compartment, fans are provided. The fans drive air from outside the secure enclosure through the heat dissipation units in the first compartment to cool electrical components associated with the game controller which are mounted on an outside of the heat dissipation units. The two heat dissipation units can each include fins and heat pipes. The ends of the fins of the two heat dissipation units can be substantially touching one another to provide a compact form factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUIXANT PLC
    Inventors: Frank Wen, Hans Chou
  • Patent number: 10194558
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to operating an electronic gaming machine to generate a wager-based game. A game control unit including a secure enclosure are provided. The secure enclosure is divided into two compartments. The first compartment securely contains the game control unit, which includes a game controller used to generate the wager-based game and heat dissipation units. The second compartment includes two fans and is accessed by an easily removable magnetically attached cover. The fans and heat dissipation units provide cooling for electrical components associated with the game controller. The fans can be maintained and replaced without compromising the security of the game controller. This feature reduces costs associated with maintaining the electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: QUIXANT PLC
    Inventors: Frank Wen, Hans Chou
  • Patent number: 10098255
    Abstract: A ventilation closure device for a telecommunication equipment enclosure includes opposed planar panels and aligned openings through each of the panels for passage of air therethrough for ventilating ambient atmospheric air to or from an equipment enclosure. One or more closures are disposed between the opposed panels and adapted to be drawn across the aligned openings for preventing passage of air, and a pivotal attachment to the closures disposes the closure into alignment with the opening. An actuator pivots the closures between an open position for allowing air passage through the openings and a closed position for impeding airflow. The pivotal attachment counterbalances the closures for mitigating force to pivot the closures. Counterbalancing of the closures minimizes actuation force required for drawing the closures across the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Schrofftech Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard De Felice
  • Patent number: 10064309
    Abstract: A shelf thermostat device and a thermostat system. The shelf thermostat device includes a fixing bracket and a heat exchanger. An electronic device is detachably disposed at the fixing bracket. The heat exchanger is detachably disposed at the fixing bracket and layer arranged in a row with the electronic device. The heat exchanger has a heat exchanging core. The heat exchanging core has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and a plurality of internal channels and a plurality of external channels. The internal channels and the external channels are disposed staggered and isolated with each other. An internal air flows between the internal channels and the electronic device. An external air flows to the second side of the heat exchanging core from the first side of the heat exchanging core through the external channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Lee-Lung Chen, Tse-Hsin Wang, Ying-Chi Chen, Wu-Chi Li
  • Patent number: 10045465
    Abstract: An effective cooling system is provided by the configuration including: a blower; a first rectifier comprising a first opening that lets a first diversion pass through and a second opening that lets a second diversion divided from airflow pass through downstream a first electronic device; a mixing room that is arranged at a downstream portion of the first rectifier and that mixes the first diversion having passed through the first opening and the second diversion having passed through the second opening; and a second rectifier that is arranged at a downstream portion of the mixing room and includes a third opening and a fourth opening, a mixed airflow of the first diversion and the second diversion passing through the third opening and the fourth opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Ichinose, Shinichi Kobayashi, Kenji Aoki
  • Patent number: 9972887
    Abstract: A system for securing the wireless access point within a ceiling or wall. The system includes a rough-in bracket including a frame member defining a window that closely receives an enclosure box sized to contain the wireless access point. The enclosure box includes a rear housing that extends through the rough-in bracket window and two pairs of rotatable dog ears that secure the enclosure box therein. Air vents are provided in only two sides of the enclosure box which are intended to be aligned with the longitudinal space between ceiling joists. Magnets on an inside face of anesthetic cover are attracted to ferromagnetic screws in the enclosure box used to rotate the dog ears. The enclosure box also features flexible arrangement of cable knockouts and includes structure for securing standard and nonstandard wireless access point devices therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ANLA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hagai Feiner, Bryce Alan Nordstrand
  • Patent number: 9699941
    Abstract: A chassis of an information handling system (IHS) includes a lateral segment that spans across a directional path of air travelling from an air intake side to an air exhaust side and including receiving affordances for insertion of a lateral support for a directional air mover. A user can select one of a first lateral support and a second lateral support that is insertable into the lateral segment and securable to the receiving affordances. The first lateral support has apertures of a first size to receive respective first fan modules and the second lateral support has apertures of a second size to receive respective second fan modules. An inserted one of the first and second lateral supports is selected based on a cooling air requirement corresponding to user selected compute components placed within the chassis to operate within the IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Alvarado, Edmond I. Bailey, Walter R. Carver
  • Patent number: 9674983
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include heat-rejecting media thermally coupled to one or more information handling resources, a connector for receiving a modular information handling resource, the connector having a latch for facilitating insertion or removal of the modular information handling resource to or from the connector, and a removable baffle for directing a flow of air proximate to the heat-rejecting media. The removable baffle may have two substantially planar sides and an edge substantially perpendicular to the two planar sides, such that when the removable baffle is located within a chassis including the heat-rejecting media and the connector, the latch engages with the edge to mechanically maintain a location of the removable baffle within the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chin-An Huang, Chen-Fa Wu, Shin-Chi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9641788
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and control method is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a processor including one or more processing modules configured to process data, a power supply configured to supply an operating voltage to the one or more processing modules in a normal operation mode, a sensor configured to detect a temperature of the processor, and a controller configured to change the processor from the normal operation mode to one of a first operation mode and a second operation mode according to the temperature detected by the sensor, control the power supply to supply a lower level operating voltage to at least one of the one or more processing modules when the processor is in the first operation mode, and reset or disable at least one processing module selected from the one or more processing modules when the processor is in the second operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Il-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9568161
    Abstract: A ventilation system for a vehicle headlight housing. The ventilation body has an inner part extending into the housing opening as well as an outer part extending circumferentially about the opening wall of the housing opening, which on the one hand offers, in the locked position thereof, a sealing attachment and on the other hand provides a labyrinthic ventilation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., AZ Ausruestung und Zubehoer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Hansmann, Jens Oliver Meyer, Michael Wysok
  • Patent number: 9565788
    Abstract: The present mobile processing data center comprises a support structure, which consisting in ISO standard containers of 10, 20, 40 or 53 feet, wherein the container comprises: a) automatic transfer switch; b) uninterruptible power system; c) precision air conditioners; d) cabinets having a bearing and rails system, and 42 RMS in order to install the IT equipment; f) two levels of trays ladder type installed on the top of the cabinets, one tray for data wiring and other for power wiring; g) removable floor panels; and h) additionally the mobile data center comprises a fire protection system “zero-footprint”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SIXSIGMA NETWORKS MEXICO, S.A., DE C.V.
    Inventors: Sergio Rosengaus Leizgold, Santiago Suinaga Sainz, Dax Didier Simpson
  • Patent number: 9560793
    Abstract: Enclosures and systems that can control airflow and signal connectivity in a blade enclosure are provided. Some examples include a front section including a number of blade server modules, a rear section including a number of switch modules; and a middle section having a number of openings and a number of connectors, wherein the middle section controls airflow between the front section and the rear section in the blade enclosure with the number of openings and the middle section controls signal connectivity between a number of blades in the number of blade server modules and a number of switches in the number of switch modules with the number of connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kevin B. Leigh, David W. Sherrod, George D. Megason
  • Patent number: 9472797
    Abstract: The battery pack includes: a battery cell including a cell tab; a housing configured to accommodate the battery cell; a middle cover configured to close the housing in a state where the cell tab extends outward through the middle cover; a bus bar electrically connected to the cell tab extending outward through the middle cover; a sensing circuit board disposed on the bus bar and electrically connected to the bus bar; an isolation plate coupled to the middle cover to cover the bus bar and the sensing circuit board; and a battery management system disposed on the isolation plate and electrically connected to the sensing circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungyeop Han, Seungsoo Jang
  • Patent number: 9395773
    Abstract: A laptop cooling pad includes a cover including a top louver, an intermediate recess, openings between the louver and the recess, a rear channel communicating the recess with an open rear end, and two stop members pivotably disposed on the rear end of the cover; a casing releasaby secured to the cover and including extendible legs pivotally on a bottom of the front portion of the cover; a transverse fan in the casing and under the louver, the transverse fan including a shock absorbing member; and a PCB for supplying power to the transverse fan and configured to control the transverse fan. In response to activating the transverse fan, cooling air is drawn into the transverse fan via the louver and flows upward and rearward respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Inventor: Cheng Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 9363929
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an enclosure defining an interior space and at least one server-rack port configured to engage one or more of racks such that one or more servers installed in each rack are contiguous to the interior space. The enclosure is inside of a room and includes at least one stability control unit at the bottom of the enclosure. Each server includes a fan that draws air from the interior space into the server and expels the air outside of the enclosure into the room. The apparatus also includes a mixing chamber that is contiguous to the enclosure. The mixing chamber includes a first set of one or more dampers that are contiguous to natural air outside of the room and a second set of one or more dampers that are contiguous with air in the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Noteboom, Albert Dell Robison, Jesus Suarez, Norman Holt
  • Patent number: 9357668
    Abstract: Provided are a power management system and method. At least one frame module includes at least one bay and a plurality of first connectors at a rear portion of the at least one bay and at least one power conversion unit positioned in the at least one bay. The at least one power conversion unit includes a plurality of second connectors. Each second connector is removably coupled to a first connector of the plurality of first connectors. The first and second connectors include a combination of high power, cooling, and control connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Franklin B. Jones, Stuart A. Jones, Andrew I. Nehring, Daniel Jones
  • Patent number: 9357675
    Abstract: Cooling apparatuses and methods of fabricating thereof are provided which facilitate pumped immersion-cooling of an electronic component(s). The cooling apparatus includes an enclosure having a compartment accommodating the electronic component(s), and dielectric fluid within the compartment at least partially immersing the electronic component(s). A liquid-cooled heat sink is associated with the enclosure to cool at least one cooling surface associated with the compartment, and facilitate heat transfer to the heat sink from the electronic component(s) via the dielectric fluid. A pump is disposed external to the compartment and in fluid communication therewith to facilitate pumped dielectric fluid flow through the compartment. The pumped dielectric fluid flow through the compartment enhances heat transfer from the electronic component(s) to the liquid-cooled heat sink via the cooling surface(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 9351425
    Abstract: A container-type data center is provided, which can be transported while having outdoor units of an air conditioning facility installed therein, and having an enhanced cooling effect. A partition panel 10 is provided for separating a container 100 into an IT equipment accommodation chamber 18 and an outdoor unit installation chamber 15, and on both ends of the panel are provided pillar sections 14e and 14f for the partition panel. The length-direction dimension of the outdoor unit installation chamber 15 is within the range of 1.6 to 2 meters, which can be selected arbitrarily according to the size of the outdoor units 6a through 6d. The outdoor units 6a through 6d are arranged so that their air discharge openings face the outer side in the width direction of the container. Regarding the outdoor units 6a through 6d, it is possible to set up an angle steel rack and stack two outdoor units vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tabe, Takeshi Kobayashi, Yutaka Asano
  • Patent number: 9345174
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container-type data center having an air conditioning facility, which enables to effectively cool IT equipment by applying the arrangement to an existing container. A system ceiling 50 is attached to a ceiling surface 25 to send out cooling air to a cooling area 2 from a vent 31a of an indoor unit 31 of an air conditioning device disposed in a container 1, and a draft air duct is defined by the system ceiling 50, a down-wall 51 and the ceiling surface 25. A vinyl curtain 60 is provided on an upper portion of a rack 40 so as to prevent cooling air having reached the cooling area 2 from flowing out to a heat exhaust area 3 without passing through the rack 40 loading the IT equipment, and a vinyl curtain 70 in a form of a shop curtain is disposed at an area used as a path for operators entering the cooling area 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tabe, Takeshi Kobayashi, Yutaka Asano
  • Patent number: 9326431
    Abstract: In a server cooling device having a cold zone and a hot zone, a flow of cold air is determined depending on an air conditioner disposed in the hot zone and a size of a casing. A server cooling system is provided in which a chamber is substantially divided into two parts with a cold aisle formed in one part and a hot aisle formed in the other part, and a server rack is disposed on a boundary between the cold aisle and the hot aisle. The server cooling system includes: an air conditioner provided on the hot aisle side; a circulation path disposed so as to extend from the air conditioner to the cold aisle; and a shield provided on the boundary excluding the server rack. The shield is provided with a gallery capable of venting from the cold aisle to the hot aisle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsushita, Satoshi Uzawa, Hiroshi Tsujimura
  • Patent number: 9204562
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a case that includes a bottom plate portion and a case-side peripheral wall portion, the case having an opening that opens to a lateral side, and a cover that closes the opening of the case and includes a lid plate portion and a cover-side peripheral wall portion covering a perimeter of the case-side peripheral wall portion. A protruding length of a second upper plate portion of the cover-side peripheral wall portion that is located on the upper side in a state in which the electrical junction box is used is set at such a length that the second upper plate portion protrudes slightly outward beyond an outer surface of the bottom plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimizu, Takehiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9159642
    Abstract: Embodiments of a silicon-based heat dissipation device and a chip module assembly utilizing the silicon-based heat dissipation device are described. In one aspect, the chip module assembly includes a chip module and a primary heat dissipation module. The chip module includes a board and at least one heat-generating device. The board includes a first primary side and a second primary side opposite the first primary side. The at least one heat-generating device is disposed on the first primary side of the board. The primary heat dissipation module includes at least one silicon-based heat dissipation device disposed on the at least one heat-generating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Inventors: Gerald Ho Kim, Jay Eunjae Kim
  • Publication number: 20150124404
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to network system and apparatus for heat management of high volume network devices. More specifically, disclosed are system and apparatus that provide for improving heat dissipation of the network devices through improved air circulations, including a PCB with at least one slot and a connector cage mounted on the printed circuit board, the connector cage being within a certain distance from the at least one slot in the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Lin Shen, Stephen Ong, Mark Siechen, Timothy Lee
  • Patent number: 9017154
    Abstract: A chassis and rack system is disclosed in which a chassis separated into two separate enclosures by a central partition. Each of the enclosures is sized to receive a computer system. The partition includes a pair of vertically oriented vents, with each of the vents in fluid communication with one of the enclosures and the computer system contained therein. Heated air is removed from each computer system through the vent in the partition that is associated with the computer system. Multiple chassis may be placed one atop another in a vertical configuration in which each chassis is either directly above or directly below another chassis. In this vertical configuration, the vents form a vertically oriented common plenum that can be used to evacuate air from multiple chassis arranged in a rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: David L. Moss, Shawn P. Hoss
  • Publication number: 20150109732
    Abstract: A device for generating a flow of air, particularly for cooling electronic components, with an annular piezo element and an emitter element, wherein the annular piezo element can be vibrated radially by applying an alternating voltage, the emitter element is coupled radially to the annular piezo element, and wherein the radial vibration of the annular piezo element is configured so as to set the emitter element into axial vibration to generate the air flow which thereby permits a device of small dimensions for generating the an air flow to be created that is simultaneously characterized by low energy consumption and a long service life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Oztzan Akif, Randolf Mock, Thomas Vonz
  • Publication number: 20150092348
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a distributor plate secured to and parallel to a circuit board. The circuit board has a module secured thereto and the distributor plate defines an area on an inner surface thereof secured to or otherwise in thermal contact with the module. Heat pipes embedded in the distributor plate include a portion over the module and a portion over the circuit board outward from the module. A portion of the heat pipes outward from the module may be substantially perpendicular to a direction of airflow between the circuit board and distributor plate. The module may be located closer to one edge of the circuit board and the heat pipes may according extend from adjacent that edge to an opposite edge of the circuit board. An inward facing surface may include fins extending toward the circuit board and the fins may be contoured to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Cyan Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Andrew Newhouse, Colin John Wilson
  • Patent number: 8988878
    Abstract: An electronic device and housing thereof are provided. The electronic device includes housing, a partition, multiple electronic elements, and a fan. The housing has a side edge, where the side edge is provided with a slit. The partition is disposed in the case, is separated by a distance with the slit, and divides the interior of the case into a first and a second space. The partition has a through hole, the second space is in communication with the first space through the through hole, and the first space is in communication with the outside of the case through the slit. The electronic elements and the fan are disposed in the second space, and an air outlet of the fan is adjacent to the through hole, so that air in the second space can be driven to flow from the first space to the outside through the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chen Lin, Ren-Tsung Huang, Shih-Hua Chen
  • Publication number: 20150077934
    Abstract: An enclosure is presented. The enclosure includes an outer casing having one or more walls. Further, the enclosure includes a synthetic jet assembly configured to dissipate heat from the one or more walls, where the synthetic jet assembly includes a bracket operatively coupled to the one or more walls of the outer casing and two or more synthetic jets operatively coupled to the bracket, where the two or more synthetic jets are arranged in a multi-dimensional array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock, William Earl Gross, JR., Bryan Patrick Whalen, Robert Paul Meier
  • Patent number: 8982552
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system and method disaggregate I/O resources from a server's compute resources, such as CPU and memory, by moving the server's local I/O devices to a remote location apart from the server's compute resources. An embodiment uses optical technology to accomplish the fast communication speeds needed between the compute resources and the remotely located I/O resources. Specifically, an embodiment uses fiber-optic cables and electrical-to-optical conversion to facilitate communication between the compute resources and the I/O resources. The compute resources and the remotely located I/O resources can be designed differently to allow conductive liquid cooling for the compute resources and air cooling for the I/O resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Arlen L. Roesner, Brandon Rubenstein, John F. Hutton, Richard Stanton Self