US 2014/0153184 A1Published application

Fan control system and method

AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

InventorsYAO-TING CHANG, CHAO-KE WEI

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Abstract

A fan control system is executed by a microcomputer of a container data center. The center includes a number of server racks, and each server rack includes a number of fans. The system includes a control module and an adjusting module. The control module obtains a current power consumption of each server rack, determines the current power consumption of which server rack is greater than a standard value, and transmits an adjusting signal to each determined server rack. The adjusting module decreases a rotation speed of at least one fan of each determined server rack according to the adjusting signal until the current power consumption of each determined server rack is less than the standard value. A related fan control method is also provided.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A fan control system to be executed by a microcomputer of a container data center, the container data center comprising a plurality of server racks, each of the plurality of server racks comprising a plurality of fans, the fan control system comprising:

a control module to obtain a current power consumption of each of the plurality of server racks, determine the current power consumption of which of the plurality of server racks is greater than a standard value, and transmit an adjusting signal to each determined server rack;
and
an adjusting module to decrease a rotation speed of at least one fan of each determined server rack according to the adjusting signal;
wherein, each time after the adjusting module decreases the rotation speed of at least one fan of each determined server rack, the control module again obtains the current power consumption of each of the plurality of server racks, determines the current power consumption of which of the plurality of server racks is greater than the standard value, and transmits the adjusting signal to each determined server rack.

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A fan control method to be executed by a microcomputer of a container data center, the container data center comprising a plurality of server racks, each of the plurality of server racks comprising a plurality of fans, the fan control method comprising:

obtaining a current power consumption of each of the plurality of server racks;
determining the current power consumption of which of the plurality of server racks is greater than a standard value, and transmitting an adjusting signal to each determined server rack;
and
decreasing a rotation speed of at least one fan of each determined server rack according to the adjusting signal;
wherein, each time after decreasing the rotation speed of at least one fan of each determined server rack according to the adjusting signal, the current power consumption of each of the plurality of server racks is again obtained, and the rotation speed of at least one fan of each server rack which current power consumption is determined to be greater than the standard value is again decreased.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/859,744Filed 10 Apr 2013
Priority: TW 1011453684 Dec 2012
Published: 5 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 1/20
Constructional details or arrangements: cooling means
G06F 1/26
Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00: power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof
H05K 7/20836
For server racks or cabinets; for data centers, e.g. 19-inch computer racks: thermal management, e.g. server temperature control
G06F
Computing and data processing

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