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US 11,602,084 B2Granted
Computer server heat regulation utilizing integrated precision air flow
AssigneeDHK Storage, LLC
InventorDavid Klein
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Abstract
Disclosed is system, method, and rack stand portion for the advantageous cooling of computer equipment. When multiple instances of computer equipment are managed from a central authority, cooling, heating, and/or cessation of either can be controlled in a way that enhances efficiency. Impediments that control access channels and interior access to computer equipment is toggled by the present invention.
Claims15
A process for interacting with a server rack stand, said method comprising:
- providing the server rack stand comprising an interior void bifurcated into a cool chamber and an exhaust chamber bearing a computer server case adapted to permit gaseous communication between said cool chamber and said exhaust chamber, said gaseous communication from said cooled chamber through said computer server case to said exhaust chamber forms a sealed passageway;
- transmitting a thermal status of said computer server case to a central controller;
- receiving by said central controller said status indicator of said thermal status, said central controller external to or on said server rack stand;
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- actuating, based on said status indicator of said thermal status, an influx block member adapted to impede said gaseous communication between said cool chamber and said computer server case.
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A process for interacting with a server rack stand, said process comprising:
- providing the server rack stand comprising an interior void bifurcated into a cool chamber and an exhaust chamber bearing a computer server case adapted to permit gaseous communication between said cool chamber and said exhaust chamber, said gaseous communication from said cooled chamber through said computer server case to said exhaust chamber forms a sealed passageway;
- transmitting a thermal status of said computer server case to a central controller;
- receiving by said central controller said status indicator of said thermal status, the said central controller external to or on said server rack stand;
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- actuating, based on said status indicator of said thermal status, an influx block member, positioned between said cool chamber and said computer server case, to an orientation to permit airflow from said cool chamber to said computer server case.
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A server rack system comprising:
- a vertical rack stand body portion having a computer support surface, and having an interior void bifurcated into a cool chamber and an exhaust chamber, both of said cool chamber and exhaust chamber in gaseous communication with multiple stand openings;
- multiple ventilatable computers, each ventilatable computer from the multiple ventilatable computers having a computer case, each computer case having a first computer height, adapted to releasably reside upon said vertical rack stand body portion, said computer case defining an airflow inlet opening and an airflow outlet opening;
- multiple support members, each support member of the multiple support members adapted to releasably position one of said ventilatable computer from said multiple ventilatable computers on said vertical rack stand body portion wherein (i) said airflow inlet opening of that ventilatable computer is in substantial alignment with at least one stand opening from said multiple stand openings, and (ii) said airflow outlet opening of that ventilatable computer is in substantial alignment with at least one other stand opening from said multiple stand openings;
- an airflow impeller, adapted to urge airflow from said cool chamber through said computer case of each ventilatable computer to said exhaust chamber, said gaseous communication from said cooled chamber through said computer server case to said exhaust chamber forming a sealed passageway;
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- at least another computer, adapted to releasably reside upon said vertical rack stand body portion, impervious to airflow derived from said cool chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.