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US 11,122,704 B2Granted
Liquid submersion cooled electronic systems and devices
AssigneeLiquidcool Solutions, Inc.
InventorsSean Michael Archer, Steve Shafer, David Roe, Lyle Rick Tufty
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Abstract
Liquid submersion cooling devices and systems are described that use a cooling liquid, for example a dielectric cooling liquid, to submersion cool individual electronic devices or an array of electronic devices. In one embodiment, the electronic device includes a non-pressurized device housing defining an interior space where pressure in the interior space equals or is only slightly different than pressure outside the non-pressurized device housing.
Claims10
An electronic system, comprising:
- a rack and a plurality of liquid submersion cooled electronic devices on the rack;
- each one of the liquid submersion cooled electronic devices includes:
- a liquid tight tray having a bottom wall and side walls defining an interior space, and an at least partially open top opposite the bottom wall;
- a removable cover over the at least partially open top;
- at least one heat generating electronic component disposed within the interior space;
- a single phase dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, the single phase dielectric cooling liquid partially or fully submerging and in direct contact with the at least one heat generating electronic component;
- a pump having a pump inlet in fluid communication with the interior space and a pump outlet;
- a pressure relief/equalization device in the removable cover which provides air communication between the interior space and ambient environment such that pressure in the interior space equals the ambient pressure;
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- a plurality of heat exchangers, each one of the heat exchangers is associated with and is fluidly connected to a corresponding single one of the liquid submersion cooled electronic devices, each heat exchanger having a heat exchanger inlet in fluid communication with the pump outlet of the pump in the corresponding liquid submersion cooled electronic device and having a heat exchanger outlet in fluid communication with the interior space of the corresponding liquid submersion cooled electronic device;
- a secondary cooling fluid loop in fluid communication with each one of the heat exchangers that supplies a secondary cooling liquid to each heat exchanger;
- the plurality of liquid submersion cooled electronic devices are disposed in a vertical array on the rack.
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A liquid submersion cooled electronic device, comprising:
- a liquid tight tray having a horizontal bottom wall and vertical side walls defining an interior space, an at least partially open top opposite the horizontal bottom wall, and a horizontal cover removably attached to the liquid tight tray and disposed over the at least partially open top, the horizontal cover is not sealed with the liquid tight tray;
- a pressure relief/equalization device in the horizontal cover which provides air communication between the interior space and ambient environment wherein pressure in the interior space equals ambient pressure;
- at least one heat generating electronic component disposed within the interior space;
- a single phase dielectric cooling liquid in the interior space, the single phase dielectric cooling liquid partially or fully submerging and in direct contact with the at least one heat generating electronic component;
- a pump having a pump inlet in fluid communication with the interior space and a pump outlet;
- a heat exchanger disposed within the interior space or mounted on one of the vertical side walls outside the interior space, the heat exchanger having a heat exchanger inlet in fluid communication with the pump outlet, and a heat exchanger outlet in fluid communication with the interior space;
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- the heat exchanger is configured to be in fluid communication with a secondary cooling fluid loop that supplies a secondary cooling liquid to the heat exchanger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.