Cooling subsystems for peripheral devices
AssigneeRoku, Inc.
InventorEric Casten Riepling
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for reducing the temperature of a peripheral device to a computing device. A controller can receive an indication signal from the peripheral device and generate a control signal based on the received indication signal. The controller can be configured to generate the control signal based on a temperature within a cooling space comprising the peripheral device.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, by at least one computer processor of a computing device, an indication signal to indicate that a temperature of a cooling space is over a predetermined temperature threshold, wherein the cooling space includes a peripheral device communicatively coupled to a communication interface of the computing device, and a portion of the computing device including the communication interface, and wherein the peripheral device is external to a housing of the computing device;
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- generating, based on the received indication signal, a control signal to operate a cooling subsystem of the computing device to generate an air flow and distribute the air flow over the peripheral device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving an indication signal to indicate that a temperature of a cooling space is over a predetermined temperature threshold, wherein the cooling space includes a peripheral device communicatively coupled to a communication interface of the computing device, and a portion of the computing device including the communication interface, and wherein the peripheral device is external to a housing of the computing device;
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- generating, based on the received indication signal, a control signal to operate a cooling subsystem of the computing device to generate an air flow and distribute the air flow over the peripheral device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.