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US 2014/0195066 A1Published application
Thermal adjustment using distributed sensors
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsSameer Nanda, Vincent Palatin
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Abstract
A method and system detect temperatures of multiple zones of a computer system using sensors distributed across the computer system. For each of the sensors, the system may determine whether a detected temperature associated with the sensor exceeds a predetermined value. If the detected temperature exceeds the predetermined value, the system may cool at least one of a plurality of devices of the system, based on a proximity of the at least one of the plurality of devices to the sensor.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting temperatures of multiple zones of a computer system using sensors distributed across the computer system;
- and
- for each sensor of the sensors:
- determining whether a detected temperature associated with the sensor exceeds a predetermined value;
- and
- if the detected temperature exceeds the predetermined value, cooling at least one of a plurality of devices of the computer system, wherein the cooling is performed based on a proximity of the at least one of the plurality of devices to the sensor.
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A method comprising:
- detecting temperatures of multiple zones of a computer system using sensors distributed across the computer system;
- determining whether any sensor temperature for any of the sensors exceeds a predetermined target temperature;
- and
- if any sensor temperature exceeds the predetermined target temperature, cooling the computer system in one of the multiple zones where the sensor temperature was detected.
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A computer system comprising:
- a plurality of devices including a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit;
- at least one cooling device;
- multiple sensors distributed across the computer system, each of the multiple sensors configured to detect a remote temperature and a local temperature for a zone of the computer system;
- a memory including executable code;
- and
- a processor operably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the executable code to:
- detect temperatures of multiple zones using the multiple sensors;
- and
- for each sensor of the sensors:
- determine whether a detected temperature associated with the sensor exceeds a predetermined value;
- and
- if the detected temperature exceeds the predetermined value:
- determine if any of the plurality of devices is within the zone associated with the sensor, and
- activate the at least one cooling device to cool at least one of the plurality of devices if the at least one of the plurality of devices is within the zone associated with the sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.