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US 2014/0153183 A1Published application
Exhaust air deflecting system
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorsMorgan Morrison Pofahl, Dolf Conrad Veit
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Abstract
An air deflecting system includes an air deflector that is physically mounted against a hot air exhaust vent of a network equipment element using a rack coupling mechanism that is adjustable to accommodate a variable lateral distance of the hot air exhaust vent from the computing rack. The air deflector receives an airflow from the hot air exhaust vent at a first direction and deflects the airflow in a second direction.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a rack;
- networking equipment disposed within the rack;
- an exhaust air deflector;
- and
- means for coupling the exhaust air deflector to the rack.
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An apparatus comprising:
- an air deflector to receive an airflow at a first direction and deflect the airflow in a second direction, the airflow discharged through an hot air exhaust vent of a network equipment element configured in a computing rack;
- and
- a rack coupling mechanism to physically mount the air deflector against the hot air exhaust vent of the network equipment element, the rack coupling mechanism adjustable to accommodate a variable lateral distance of the hot air exhaust vent from the computing rack.
A computing system comprising:
- a plurality of network equipment elements;
- a computing rack housing the network equipment elements;
- and
- an exhaust air deflector to receive an airflow from at least one network equipment element at a first direction and deflect the airflow in a second direction, the exhaust air deflector physically mounted against the hot air exhaust vent of the one network equipment element using a rack coupling mechanism that is adjustable to accommodate a variable lateral distance of the hot air exhaust vent from the computing rack.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.