Computer system cooling using ventilation channel device
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsDouglas E. Messick, Rachel Mazzini, Patrick V. Illingworth
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Abstract
A ventilation channel device may be used to provide cooling to components of a computing device. A ventilation channel device may be U-shaped and may be installed within a volume that is physically between fans. The bottom of the U-shaped may include air inlets, and those air inlets may lead to air outlets that are disposed near air intakes of the fans. The U-shape may be hollow from the inlets to the outlets, thereby allowing airflow from the inlets to the outlets. As a result, the air volume, located between the fans, may be moved by flowing through the ventilation channel device.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a chassis, wherein the chassis has a first dimension, along which the chassis is configured for insertion in a computing rack, wherein the chassis has a first side and a second side perpendicular to the first dimension, the chassis including:
- an air mover configured to create airflow in a direction along the first dimension, wherein the air mover is disposed in the chassis along the second side, further wherein the air mover has an exhaust disposed proximate the second side and an intake disposed along the first dimension at a first length from the second side;
- a power connector, disposed at the second side of the chassis and extending away from the second side of the chassis along the first dimension;
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- a ventilation channel device having an inlet disposed between the first length and the second side and having an outlet disposed between the intake and the first side.
A method comprising:
- generating heat in a chassis that is plugged into a busbar of a computing rack;
- operating a set of air movers to create airflow from a front of the chassis to a back of the chassis, wherein the back of the chassis includes a power connector that is plugged into the busbar, further wherein the set of air movers are located at a back side of the chassis;
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- channeling air from a volume within the chassis, wherein the volume is located between a first air mover of the set of air movers and a second air mover of the set of air movers, including moving the air from the volume to intakes of the set of air movers, further wherein the volume is located between the intakes of the set of air movers and the back of the chassis.
An information handling system (IHS) comprising:
- a first air mover and a second air mover disposed at a first side of the IHS;
- a power connector, disposed at the first side of the IHS and between the first air mover and the second air mover, further wherein the first air mover, the second air mover, and the power connector partially define a volume within the IHS;
- a U-shaped ventilation channel device having a first air inlet and a second air inlet proximate the power connector, a first air outlet proximate a first intake of the first air mover, and a second air outlet proximate a second air intake of the second air mover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.