Multi slot add-in card with first and second cooling air movers and extended heat sink fins
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsJyotiba SURYAWANSHI, John MATHEW, Anudeep GALI, Jain Raj VETTUVAZHY PUTHENPURAYIL, Ali KALANTARIAN
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Abstract
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a multi-slot add-in card having a second air mover stacked with a first air mover. The add-in card has a heat sink. The heat sink has fins. The fins extend into a first path of a first air flow and a second path of a second air flow. The first air mover is to generate the first air flow and the second air mover is to generate the second air flow.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a multi-slot add-in card comprising a second air mover stacked with a first air mover, the add-in card comprising a heat sink, the heat sink comprising fins, the fins extending into a first path of a first air flow and a second path of a second air flow, the first air mover to generate the first air flow and the second air mover to generate the second air flow.
An electronic system, comprising:
- a motherboard comprising first and second add-in card slots;
- an add-in card plugged into the motherboard, the add-in card consuming space allocated for the first and second add-in card slots, the add-in card comprising a second fan that is stacked with a first fan, the add-in card comprising a heat sink, the heat sink comprising fins, the fins extending into a first path of a first air flow and a second path of a second air flow, the first fan to generate the first air flow and the second fan to generate the second air flow.
A machine readable storage medium comprising program code that when processed by a processor causes a method to be performed, the method comprising:
- receiving a temperature and/or power measurement made on an add-in card having first and second fans;
- determining that the add-in card is dissipating an amount of heat that one of the first and second fans is capable of cooling without assistance from the other of the first and second fans;
- determining a speed setting for the one fan;
- and,
- causing the one fan to operate at the speed setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.