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US 10,705,579 B2Granted
Information handling system having regional cooling
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsAndrew O. Ingalls, Travis C. North
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Abstract
Custom cooling strategies may be implemented for different regions in computers, servers, and other information handling systems. Chassis architecture may have multiple cooling fans, with each fan cooling a different region via dedicated duct work. A user or administrator may thus implement different cooling strategies for internal components, based on different thermal curves defined for each different region.
Claims7
An information handling system, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a memory device accessible to the hardware processor, the memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including:
- receiving an output signal generated by a temperature sensor associated with a region of a chassis housing componentry of the information handling system;
- querying an electronic database for a regional identifier associated with the region of the chassis, the electronic database electronically associating cooling criteria and regional identifiers including the regional identifier associated with the region of the chassis;
- retrieving the cooling criteria from the electronic database that is electronically associated with the regional identifier associated with the region of the chassis;
- receiving a user's selection of an optional thermal curve from a menu of optional thermal curves for controlling a fan dedicated to the region of the chassis, the optional thermal curve specifying greater values than initial values of the cooling criteria specified by a manufacturer of the information handling system;
- and
- controlling an electrical power supplied to the fan dedicated to the region according to the user's selection of the optional thermal curve, the electrical power causing the fan to cool the region of the chassis.
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