Cabling-based airflow routing system
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsSalvador Jimenez, III, Noman Mithani, William Andrew Smith
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Abstract
A cabling-based airflow routing system includes a chassis that defines a chassis housing. A first heat producing component is located in the chassis housing. A first cabling connector is located in the chassis housing. A second cabling connector that is located in the chassis housing. A first ribbon cable that extends through the chassis housing between the first cabling connector and the second cabling connector. The first ribbon cable includes a first cabling airflow routing portion that is oriented in the chassis housing in an airflow path and that is configured to redirect a first portion of an airflow provided in the airflow path towards the first heat producing component.
Claims20
A cabling-based airflow routing system, comprising:
- a chassis that defines a chassis housing;
- a first heat producing component that is located in the chassis housing;
- a first cabling connector that is located in the chassis housing;
- a second cabling connector that is located in the chassis housing;
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- a first ribbon cable that extends through the chassis housing between the first cabling connector and the second cabling connector, wherein the first ribbon cable includes a first cabling airflow routing portion that is oriented in the chassis housing in an airflow path and that is configured to redirect a first portion of an airflow provided in the airflow path towards the first heat producing component.
An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:
- a chassis;
- a processing system that is housed in the chassis;
- a memory system that is housing in the chassis, that is coupled to the processing system, and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform at least one computing operation;
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- a first ribbon cable that extends through the chassis, wherein the first ribbon cable includes a first cabling airflow routing portion that is oriented in the chassis in an airflow path and that is configured to redirect a first portion of an airflow provided in the airflow path towards the processing system.
A method for routing airflow using cabling, comprising:
- connecting a first ribbon cable to a pair of first connectors in a chassis that houses a first heat producing component;
- positioning, in the chassis, the first ribbon cable such that a first cabling airflow routing portion on the first ribbon cable is oriented in the chassis in an airflow path adjacent the first heat producing component;
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- redirecting, by the first cabling airflow routing portion on the first ribbon cable, a first portion of an airflow provided in the airflow path towards the first heat producing component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.