公开(公告)号：US10594158B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-17

申请号：US15660502

申请日：2017-07-26

Applicant: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Wen-Kai Lee ,  Chin-Hsiang Chan ,  Shu-Chen Ning

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  H02J9/06 ,  G06F1/3212 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  H02J7/00

Abstract: Various examples of the present disclosure provide a high efficient battery backup (BBU) system and systems and methods for managing the BBU system through a microcontroller unit (MCU) and an ORing FET system of the BBU system. In some examples, a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a server system is used to control the MCU and the ORing FET system of the BBU system such that the BBU system can operate in multiple operating modes without a battery discharger. The operating modes of the BBU system includes, but are not limited to, a battery constant-current-charging mode, a battery constant-voltage-charging mode, a battery discharging mode, or a battery capacity calibration mode.

公开(公告)号：US10649512B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US15659108

申请日：2017-07-25

Applicant: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Wen-Kai Lee ,  Chin-Hsiang Chan ,  Shu-Chen Ning

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/32 ,  H02J7/04 ,  G06F1/30 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H02J9/06 ,  G06F1/3287 ,  G06F1/3296 ,  G01R19/165

Abstract: Various examples of the present disclosure provide a high efficient battery system, and systems and methods for intelligently discharging and charging the battery system such that an output voltage of the battery system is maintained within a predetermined voltage range. In some examples, a base board controller (BMC) is used to manage charging and discharging of the battery system. The BMC can provide both over-charging protection and over-discharging protection for the battery system.

公开(公告)号：US09684348B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-20

申请号：US14698242

申请日：2015-04-28

Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Kuo-Chan Hsu ,  Yun-Teng Shih

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/32

CPC classification number: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F1/324 ,  G06F1/3296 ,  G06F2200/201 ,  Y02D10/126

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide methods for boosting a voltage differential of an energy storage by using a boost component, determining a server system being switched to a boost mode, and discharging the energy storage to provide additional power supplies to the server system during the boost mode. In some embodiments, processing demands of a server system can be monitored. In response to determining that a boost mode is needed to support processing demands of the server system or detecting a component being a bottleneck in processing pipelines of the server system, a boost activation signal can be generated. The boost activation signal can cause a CPU, the bottleneck component, or another component of the server system to operate under a higher clock speed such that a higher processing capacity can be achieved.

公开(公告)号：US10921870B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16140669

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Shu-Chen Ni ,  Chin-Hsiang Chan ,  Wen-Kai Lee

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  H02J9/06

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for dynamically defining a specific input pin of a management controller (e.g., a baseboard management controller (BMC)) of a server system in response to a new device being plugged into the server system. The new device comprises one of a power supply unit (PSU), an automatic transfer switch (ATS), or a battery backup unit (BBU) of the server system. In some implementations, the PSU, the ATS, and the BBU are modularized into a plurality of ATS modules, a plurality of PSU modules, and a plurality of BBU modules, respectively. Each of the plurality of ATS modules, the plurality of PSU modules, and the plurality of BBU modules has substantially the same physical size.

公开(公告)号：US10345877B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15596955

申请日：2017-05-16

Applicant: Quanta Computer Inc.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Kuo-Chan Hsu ,  Yun-Teng Shih

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/32 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F1/324 ,  G06F1/3296

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide methods for boosting a voltage differential of an energy storage by using a boost component, determining a server system being switched to a boost mode, and discharging the energy storage to provide additional power supplies to the server system during the boost mode. In some embodiments, processing demands of a server system can be monitored. In response to determining that a boost mode is needed to support processing demands of the server system or detecting a component being a bottleneck in processing pipelines of the server system, a boost activation signal can be generated. The boost activation signal can cause a CPU, the bottleneck component, or another component of the server system to operate under a higher clock speed such that a higher processing capacity can be achieved.

公开(公告)号：US10191121B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US15609721

申请日：2017-05-31

Applicant: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.

Inventor： Kuang-Hua Ou Yang ,  Kuo-Chan Hsu ,  Yun-Teng Shih

IPC: G01R31/40 ,  H03K17/687 ,  H02M1/088 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G01R31/00 ,  H02M1/00

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method enabling a self-burn-in test for a power supply device (PSD) of a server system using a multi-phase scheme. The PSD comprises a power-width modulation (PWM) controller, and a plurality of power stages. Each of the plurality of power stages comprises a driver, a high-side MOSFET, and a low-side MOSFET. In one aspect of the present disclosure, upon receiving a test mode command from a controller of the server system, the PWM controller can send a PWM signal to switch a specific power stage to the On state, and send at least another PWM signal that switches other power stage(s) of the plurality of power stages to the Tri-state. During a subsequent self-burn-in test of the specific power stage, low-side MOSFET(s) of the other power stage(s) can function as a load for the specific power stage.