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US 12,320,446 B2Granted
Pressure regulator valve assembly for quick disconnect fittings
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMark Edmund Sprenger, Devdatta Prakash Kulkarni, Joseph A. Broderick
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Abstract
A quick disconnect fitting includes a plug and a socket to receive the plug. The plug includes a fluid channel, an inlet to the fluid channel, and a pressure regulating valve assembly. The valve can include a poppet, and a valve nozzle comprising an orifice. The valve assembly resides in the fluid channel. The socket includes a socket stem to contact the valve assembly and push the valve assembly into the fluid channel of the plug upon the socket receiving the plug.
Claims21
A quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a plug spring within the fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and the valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the valve assembly residing within the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle slidably movable within the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle residing between the plug spring and the fluid inlet, wherein the pintle and the valve nozzle are to slidably move toward the plug spring in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the quick disconnect plug to carry liquid to cool one or more processor units of a computing system.
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A quick disconnect fitting comprising:
- a quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet, and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and the valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the valve assembly residing within the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle slidably movable within the fluid channel;
- and
- a quick disconnect socket to receive the quick disconnect plug, the quick disconnect socket comprising a socket stem to contact the valve assembly and push the valve assembly into the fluid channel upon the quick disconnect socket receiving the quick disconnect plug, the quick disconnect fitting to carry liquid to cool one or more processor units in a computing system.
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A computing system comprising:
- a quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a plug spring within the fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and the valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the valve assembly residing in the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle slidably movable within the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle residing between the plug spring and the fluid inlet, wherein the pintle and the valve nozzle are to slidably move toward the plug spring in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet;
- and
- one or more processor units to be cooled by liquid that enters the quick disconnect plug.
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A quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and the valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the valve assembly residing within the fluid channel, the pintle and the valve nozzle slidably movable within the fluid channel, the quick disconnect plug to carry liquid to cool one or more processor units of a computing system, wherein the pintle comprises a fluid bypass channel that extends from a surface of the pintle at a first end of the fluid bypass channel to the valve channel at a second end of the fluid bypass channel, wherein the first end of the fluid bypass channel is not exposed to fluid entering the fluid inlet when fluid enters the fluid inlet at a first fluid pressure and the first end of the fluid bypass channel is exposed to fluid entering the fluid inlet when the fluid enters the fluid inlet at a second fluid pressure, the second fluid pressure greater than the first fluid pressure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.