Pressure regulator valve assembly for quick disconnect fittings
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMark Edmund Sprenger, Devdatta Prakash Kulkarni, Joseph A. Broderick
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Abstract
A quick disconnect fitting includes a plug and a socket to receive the plug. The plug includes a fluid channel, an inlet to the fluid channel, and a pressure regulating valve assembly. The valve can include a poppet, and a valve nozzle comprising an orifice. The valve assembly resides in the fluid channel. The socket includes a socket stem to contact the valve assembly and push the valve assembly into the fluid channel of the plug upon the socket receiving the plug.
Claims24
A quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet;
- the valve assembly residing within the fluid channel, the quick disconnect plug to carry liquid to cool one or more processor units of a computing system.
A quick disconnect fitting comprising:
- a quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet, and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet;
- the valve assembly residing within the fluid channel;
- and
- a quick disconnect socket to receive the quick disconnect plug, the quick disconnect socket comprising a socket stem to contact the valve assembly and push the valve assembly into the fluid channel upon the quick disconnect socket receiving the quick disconnect plug;
- the quick disconnect fitting to carry liquid to cool one or more processor units in a computing system.
A computing system comprising:
- a quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a valve assembly comprising:
- a pintle;
- and
- a valve nozzle comprising an outlet, the pintle and valve nozzle defining a valve channel, the valve channel having a volume that can decrease in response to high-pressure fluid entering the fluid inlet, the valve assembly residing in the fluid channel;
- and
- one or more processor units to be cooled by liquid that enters the quick disconnect plug.
A quick disconnect plug comprising:
- a fluid channel;
- a fluid inlet;
- and
- a pressure regulation means located within the fluid channel to maintain a fluid pressure downstream from the pressure regulation means under varying fluid pressures upstream from the pressure regulation means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.