Server cooling and exhaust appendage system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDon Gilliland, Cary Huettner
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Abstract
Disclosed is a server cooling appendage including an entry fan containing structure that includes an entry fan, and an entry plenum connected to the entry fan containing structure and connectable to a server housing, wherein the entry fan containing structure and the entry plenum are disposed externally to a server housing. Also disclosed is an exit fan containing structure containing an exit fan, an exit plenum connected to the exit fan containing structure, wherein the exit fan containing structure and the exit plenum, are disposed externally to the server housing.
Claims12
A server cooling appendage comprising:
- an entry fan containing structure including an entry fan, wherein said entry fan containing structure is connectable to a rack system;
- an entry channel that is connectable to said entry fan containing structure and said rack system;
- an entry plenum connected to said entry fan containing structure and connectable to a server housing, wherein said server housing is connectable to said entry fan containing structure and said entry plenum, and wherein said entry fan containing structure, said entry plenum, and said entry channel are disposed externally to said server housing;
- an exit fan containing structure containing an exit fan;
- an exit channel that is connectable to said exit fan containing structure and said rack system;
- an exit plenum connected to said exit fan containing structure and connectable to said server housing, wherein said server housing and said exit channel are connectable via said exit fan containing structure and said exit plenum, and wherein said exit fan containing structure, said exit plenum, and said exit channel are disposed externally to said server housing;
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- an acoustical damping material contained within said entry plenum, and said exit plenum, said entry fan containing structure, and said exit fan containing structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.