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US 2012/0073789 A1Published application
Chimney-based cooling mechanism for computing devices
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAnandaroop Bhattacharya, Mark MacDonald, Sanjay Vijayaraghavan
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Abstract
A mechanism is described for chimney-based cooling of computer components. A method of embodiments of the invention includes determining heat-emitting components of a computing device. The method further includes coupling a chimney to one or more of the heat-emitting components such that chimney effect of the chimney is used to guide air associated with a component in and out of the chimney.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- determining heat-emitting components of a computing device;
- and
- coupling a chimney to one or more of the heat-emitting components such that chimney effect of the chimney is used to guide air associated with a component in and out of the chimney.
An apparatus comprising:
- a data processing device having heat-emitting components;
- and
- a chimney coupled one or more of the heat-emitting components to guide hot air associated with the heat being emitted by the components in and out of the chimney using chimney effect.
A system comprising:
- a computer system having heat-emitting components;
- and
- a chimney coupled to one or more of the heat-emitting components to guide hot air associated with the heat being emitted by the components in and out of the chimney using chimney effect;
- and
- a remote heat exchanger associated with one or more of the heat-emitting components, wherein the remote heat exchanger is placed at a base of a chimney that is associated with a corresponding component to increase cooling performance of the chimney.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.