System and method for service life management based on corrosion rate reduction
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 hardware component. The hardware component is also connected to a trace. The computing device also includes a corrosion management component that is physically connected to the trace. The corrosion management component reduces a rate of corrosion of the trace due to an ambient environment in which the trace resides. The corrosion management component reduces the rate of corrosion by applying an electrical potential to the trace.
Claims20
A computing device of an information handling system, comprising:
- a hardware component;
- a trace connected to the hardware component;
- and
- a corrosion management component, physically connected to the trace, adapted to reduce a rate of corrosion of the trace due to an ambient environment in which the trace resides by applying an electrical potential to the trace.
A method for environmentally managing a computing device of an information handling system, comprising:
- monitoring an environmental corrosion risk associated with a trace of the computing device, wherein the trace is physically connected to a corrosion management component adapted to reduce a rate of corrosion of the trace due to an ambient environment in which the trace resides by applying an electrical potential to the trace;
- making a determination that the trace is associated with the corrosion management component;
- in response to the determination:
- estimating a corrosion risk of the trace based on:
- the environmental corrosion risk, and
- a risk reduction factor associated with the corrosion management component;
- making a second determination that the corrosion risk of the trace indicates a premature failure of the trace;
- and
- remediating the corrosion risk of the trace.
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 an environmental corrosion risk associated with a trace of the computing device, wherein the trace is physically connected to a corrosion management component adapted to reduce a rate of corrosion of the trace due to an ambient environment in which the trace resides by applying an electrical potential to the trace;
- making a determination that the trace is associated with the corrosion management component;
- in response to the determination:
- estimating a corrosion risk of the trace based on:
- the environmental corrosion risk, and
- a risk reduction factor associated with the corrosion management component;
- making a second determination that the corrosion risk of the trace indicates a premature failure of the trace;
- and
- remediating the corrosion risk of the trace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.