Ventilation tile with collapsible damper
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCullen Bash, David Moore
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Abstract
A ventilation system includes a ventilation tile. The ventilation tile has a substantially circular opening to allow air to flow through the ventilation tile and a collapsible damper operable to collapse and expand to alter the size of the substantially circular opening in the ventilation tile and thereby variably restrict air flow through the substantially circular opening.
Claims20
A ventilation system comprising:
- a ventilation tile having,
- a substantially circular opening to allow air to flow through the ventilation tile;
- and
- a collapsible damper operable to collapse and expand to alter the size of the substantially circular opening in the ventilation tile and thereby variably restrict air flow through the substantially circular opening.
A room comprising:
- a plenum with an opening, wherein the plenum includes one of a raised floor and a lowered ceiling;
- a ventilation tile covering the opening in the plenum, wherein the ventilation tile includes a substantially circular opening and a collapsible damper operable to collapse and expand to variably restrict air flow through the substantially circular opening in the ventilation tile.
A method for controlling airflow through a ventilation system, said ventilation system including a ventilation tile having a substantially circular opening, a collapsible damper operable to vary the size of an opening in the ventilation tile, and an actuator configured to move the collapsible damper, the method comprising:
- determining a target position for the collapsible damper;
- determining a current position of the collapsible damper;
- determining if a difference exists between the current position of the collapsible damper and the target position for the collapsible damper;
- and
- moving the collapsible damper to decrease a difference between the current position of the collapsible damper and the target position of the collapsible damper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.