US 10,624,235 B2Granted

Apparatus integrated with cooling components and maintaining method thereof

AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC

InventorsHaifang Zhai, Hendry Xiaoping Wu, Yujie Zhou, David Dong

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Abstract

The present disclosure provides an apparatus integrated with cooling components. The apparatus comprises heat generating components and cooling components for delivering a cooling airflow to the heat generating components. The cooling components are arranged along one side of the apparatus and upstream of the heat generating components along a direction of the airflow generated by the cooling components. The cooling components are rotatable towards an outside of the apparatus to expose the heat generating components. The apparatus integrated with cooling components of the present disclosure can effectively improve the maintenance efficiency of the cooling components and other important components.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a housing;
at least one heat generating component coupled to the housing;
at least one cooling component coupled to the housing for delivering a cooling airflow to the at least one heat generating component, the at least one cooling component arranged along one end of the housing and upstream of the at least one heat generating component along a direction of the airflow generated by the at least one cooling component, the at least one cooling component separated from the at least one heat generating component by a gap space, the at least one cooling component movably mounted relative to the housing to transition between a first state and a second state;
and
at least a first baffle adjacent one side of the at least one cooling component, the first baffle moveable between a retracted position, corresponding to the first state of the at least one cooling component, wherein the first baffle is retracted to expose the gap space, and an extended position, corresponding to the second state of the at least one cooling component, wherein the first baffle at least partially extends across the gap space to at least partially close the gap space on the one side of the at least one cooling component.

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An apparatus, comprising:

heat generating components;
cooling components for delivering a cooling airflow to the heat generating components, the cooling components arranged along one side of the apparatus and upstream of the heat generating components along a direction of the airflow generated by the cooling components, the cooling components being rotatable towards outside of the apparatus to expose the heat generating components;
a rotary connecting structure arranged to detachably connect the cooling components to a bottom plate of the apparatus, the rotary connecting structure comprising a rotating rod secured onto the bottom plate of the apparatus and pivotally connecting the cooling components to the bottom plate;
and
a plurality of baffles, at least one of the baffles arranged on each side of each of the cooling components;
wherein during the rotation of the cooling components towards the outside of the apparatus, the baffles are operable to slide to laterally close a gap space between the respective cooling components and the heat generating components.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/383,856Filed 15 Apr 2019
Priority: CN 2018 1 040252928 Apr 2018
Published: US 2019/0335615 A131 Oct 2019
Granted: 14 Apr 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H05K 7/20172
Forced ventilation, e.g. by fans: fan mounting or fan specifications
H05K 7/20727
Forced ventilation of a gaseous coolant: within server blades for removing heat from heat source
G11B 33/0405
Modified to store record carriers: for storing discs
G11B 33/142
By fluid cooling: by air cooling