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US 8,939,824 B1Granted
Air moving device with a movable louver
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCullen E. Bash, Chandrakant Patel
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Abstract
An air moving device includes an inlet for receiving airflow, an apparatus for cooling the received airflow, an apparatus for moving the airflow, an outlet for exhausting the cooled airflow, at least one louver positioned to direct the cooled airflow exhausted from the outlet, and a motor attached to the louver. The air moving device also includes a controller for controlling the motor to thereby vary a position of the movable louver to thereby vary a region of influence of the air moving device.
Claims7
An air moving device comprising:
- an inlet to receive airflow;
- a cooling apparatus to cool the received airflow;
- a moving apparatus to move the airflow;
- an outlet to exhaust the cooled airflow;
- at least one louver positioned to direct the cooled airflow exhausted from the outlet;
- a motor attached to the louver;
- and
- a controller to control the motor to vary a position of the movable louver and vary a region of influence of the air moving device, wherein the controller is further to control placement of workloads among a plurality of electronic components in a room wherein the air moving device is for use in a room having a plenum, and wherein the air moving device is further to extend into the plenum such that the at least one movable louver is positioned within the plenum to direct cooled airflow into various directions in the plenum and thereby vary the region of influence og the air moving device.
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