Device and method for automatically controlling rotating speed of fan cooler
AssigneeMitac Technology Corp.
InventorMin-Tien Shih
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Abstract
A thermal control method and device for automatically regulating the rotational speed of the fan cooler are disclosed in the present invention. The thermal control device comprises a control-voltage generator having a temperature-sensing device for sensing a temperature and generating a control voltage, a pulse modulator for modulating the pulse width of a clock signal with respect to the control voltage to generate a pulse modulation signal, and a fan driver for regulating the rotational speed of the fan cooler, modulating the refrigerant efficiency, and maintain the internal temperature of an apparatus, thereby consuming moderate power and making less noise.
Claims12
A device for controlling a rotational speed of a fan cooler attached to an apparatus, the device comprising:
- a plurality of control-voltage generators, each of which having a sensing means for sensing a local temperature and generating a local control voltage corresponding to the local temperature;
- a weighted circuit comprising a plurality of resisters, each of the resisters comprising a weighting coefficient wherein the weighted circuit generates a weighted control voltage by a summation of the local control voltages multiplied by the respective weighting coefficients;
- a pulse modulator for modulating a clock signal responsive to the control voltage into a pulse modulation signal;
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- a fan driver for controlling the rotational speed of the fan cooler in response to the pulse modulation signal.
A method for controlling a rotational speed of a fan cooler attached to an apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- sensing a local temperature of the apparatus and generating a local control voltage by each of a plurality of sensing means;
- generating a weighting coefficient for each of the local control voltages;
- generating a weighted control voltage by summing the local control voltages multiplied by the respective weighting coefficients;
- modulating a clock signal responsive to the weighted control voltage into a pulse modulation signal;
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- varying the rotational speed of the fan cooler in response to the pulse modulation signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.