System and method for service life management based on humidity control
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsSteven Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Sandor T. Farkas, Joseph Danny King
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Abstract
A computing device of an information handling system includes a computing component associated with a risk of corrosion and a corrosion management component. The corrosion management components releases humidity into an environment associated with the computing component while the risk of corrosion due to the environment is a low risk of corrosion, and absorbs humidity from the environment associated with the computing component while the risk of corrosion due to the environment is a high risk of corrosion.
Claims20
A computing device of an information handling system, comprising:
- a computing component associated with a risk of corrosion;
- and
- a corrosion management component adapted to:
- release humidity into an environment associated with the computing component while the risk of corrosion due to the environment is a low risk of corrosion, and
- absorb humidity from the environment associated with the computing component while the risk of corrosion due to the environment is a high risk of corrosion.
A method for environmentally managing a computing device of an information handling system, comprising:
- monitoring environmental conditions associated with a computing component of the computing device;
- while the environmental conditions indicate that a risk of corrosion of the computing component is low, increasing the risk of corrosion by heating a corrosion management component;
- and
- while the environmental conditions indicate that the risk of corrosion is not low, decreasing the risk of corrosion by absorbing humidity using the corrosion management component.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for environmentally managing a computing device of an information handling system, the method comprising:
- monitoring environmental conditions associated with a computing component of the computing device;
- while the environmental conditions indicate that a risk of corrosion of the computing component is low, increasing the risk of corrosion by heating a corrosion management component;
- and
- while the environmental conditions indicate that the risk of corrosion is not low, decreasing the risk of corrosion by absorbing humidity using the corrosion management component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.