Field-serviceable rack-mounted coolant distribution unit for datacenter cooling systems
AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorAli Heydari
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Abstract
Systems and methods for a datacenter cooling system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a quick disconnect (QD) adapter can be associated with a mating rotational coupler of a rack-mounted coolant distribution unit (CDU) by a rotational action on a rotational coupler of a first side of a QD adapter and can be associated with a mating QD coupler of at least one cooling loop by a linear action on a linear coupler of a second side a QD adapter.
Claims20
A datacenter cooling system, comprising:
- a quick disconnect (QD) adapter to be associated with a mating rotational coupler of a rack-mounted coolant distribution unit (CDU) by a rotational action on a rotational coupler of a first side of the QD adapter, and the QD adapter to couple to and decouple from a mating QD coupler of at least one cooling loop by a linear action on a linear coupler of a second side of the QD adapter.
A quick disconnect (QD) adapter to be associated with a mating rotational coupler of a rack-mounted coolant distribution unit (CDU) by a rotational action on a rotational coupler of a first side of the QD adapter, and the QD adapter to couple to and decouple from a mating QD coupler of at least one cooling loop by a linear action on a linear coupler of a second side the QD adapter.
A processor comprising one or more circuits and associated with a quick disconnect (QD) adapter, the QD adapter comprising a rotational coupler to couple to a rack-mounted coolant distribution unit (CDU) a first side and comprising a linear coupler to couple to at least one cooling loop on a second side, the one or more circuits to determine a state associated with the QD adapter and the processor to enable a change of coolant flow through the QD adapter to allow decoupling of the rack-mounted CDU from the at least one cooling loop by a linear action on the linear coupler of the QD adapter.
A method for datacenter cooling system, comprising:
- providing a quick disconnect (QD) adapter comprising a rotational coupler on one side of the QD adapter and comprising a linear coupler on a second side of the QD adapter;
- determining that a rack-mounted coolant distribution unit (CDU) is to be coupled to at least one cooling loop of a rack;
- associating the QD adapter with a mating rotational coupler of the rack-mounted CDU by a rotational action on the rotational coupler;
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- associating the QD adapter with a mating QD coupler of the cooling loop by a linear action on the linear coupler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.