公开(公告)号：US08649177B2

公开(公告)日：2014-02-11

申请号：US13451714

申请日：2012-04-20

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Michael A. Gaynes ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz ,  Daniel P. Simco ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Michael A. Gaynes ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz ,  Daniel P. Simco ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： H05K7/20

CPC分类号： H05K7/20772 ,  H05K7/20781 ,  H05K7/2079

摘要： A method of fabricating a liquid-cooled electronic system is provided which includes an electronic assembly having an electronics card and a socket with a latch at one end. The latch facilitates securing of the card within the socket. The method includes providing a liquid-cooled cold rail at the one end of the socket, and a thermal spreader to couple the electronics card to the cold rail. The thermal spreader includes first and second thermal transfer plates coupled to first and second surfaces on opposite sides of the card, and thermally conductive extensions extending from end edges of the plates, which couple the respective transfer plates to the liquid-cooled cold rail. The extensions are disposed to the sides of the latch, and the card is securable within or removable from the socket using the latch without removing the cold rail or the thermal spreader.

摘要翻译： 提供一种制造液冷电子系统的方法，其包括具有电子卡的电子组件和在一端具有闩锁的插座。 闩锁有助于将卡固定在插座内。 该方法包括在插座的一端提供液冷冷轨，以及将电子卡耦合到冷轨的散热器。 热散布器包括耦合到卡的相对侧上的第一和第二表面的第一和第二热传递板，以及从板的端部边缘延伸的导热延伸件，其将相应的传递板联接到液体冷却的冷轨。 延伸件设置在闩锁的侧面，并且卡可以使用闩锁固定在插座内或从插座中移除，而不移除冷轨或散热器。

公开(公告)号：US08493738B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-23

申请号：US13102211

申请日：2011-05-06

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Michael A. Gaynes ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz ,  Daniel P. Simco ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Michael A. Gaynes ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz ,  Daniel P. Simco ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： H05K7/20

CPC分类号： H05K7/20772 ,  H05K7/20781 ,  H05K7/2079

摘要： Liquid-cooled electronic systems are provided which include an electronic assembly having an electronics card and a socket with a latch at one end. The latch facilitates securing of the card within the socket or removal of the card from the socket. A liquid-cooled cold rail is disposed at the one end of the socket, and a thermal spreader couples the electronics card to the cold rail. The thermal spreader includes first and second thermal transfer plates coupled to first and second surfaces on opposite sides of the card, and thermally conductive extensions extending from end edges of the plates, which couple the respective transfer plates to the liquid-cooled cold rail. The thermally conductive extensions are disposed to the sides of the latch, and the card is securable within or removable from the socket using the latch without removing the cold rail or the thermal spreader.

摘要翻译： 提供液冷电子系统，其包括具有电子卡的电子组件和在一端具有闩锁的插座。 闩锁有助于将卡固定在插座内或从插座中取出卡。 液冷冷轨布置在插座的一端，散热器将电子卡连接到冷轨。 热散布器包括耦合到卡的相对侧上的第一和第二表面的第一和第二热传递板，以及从板的端部边缘延伸的导热延伸件，其将相应的传递板联接到液体冷却的冷轨。 导热延伸部设置在闩锁的侧面，并且卡可以使用闩锁固定在插座内或从插座中移除而不移除冷轨或散热器。

公开(公告)号：US20130192794A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-01

申请号：US13361929

申请日：2012-01-30

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： F28F9/00

CPC分类号： H05K13/00 ,  H01L21/4882 ,  H01L23/40 ,  H01L23/42 ,  H01L23/44 ,  H01L23/467 ,  H01L23/473 ,  H01L2224/16225 ,  H05K7/20009 ,  H05K7/20254 ,  Y10T29/49117

摘要： Several apparatuses and methods for providing cooling system interchangeability. One apparatus includes a thermally conductive plate thermally coupled to an integrated circuit. The thermally conductive plate is configured to couple interchangeably to a liquid cooling assembly or an air cooling assembly, and the liquid cooling assembly and the air cooling assembly are separate devices.

摘要翻译： 提供冷却系统互换性的几种设备和方法。 一种装置包括热耦合到集成电路的导热板。 导热板被配置为可互换地耦合到液体冷却组件或空气冷却组件，并且液体冷却组件和空气冷却组件是分离的装置。

公开(公告)号：US08687364B2

公开(公告)日：2014-04-01

申请号：US13283933

申请日：2011-10-28

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Patrick A. Coico ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Patrick A. Coico ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： H05K7/20

CPC分类号： B23P15/26 ,  H05K7/20781 ,  H05K7/20827 ,  Y10T29/4935 ,  Y10T29/49826

摘要： A cooling apparatus for an electronics rack is provided which includes an air-to-liquid heat exchanger, one or more coolant-cooled structures and a tube. The heat exchanger, which is associated with the electronics rack and disposed to cool air passing through the rack, includes a plurality of distinct, coolant-carrying tube sections, each tube section having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet, one of which is coupled in fluid communication with a coolant loop to facilitate flow of coolant through the tube section. The coolant-cooled structure(s) is in thermal contact with an electronic component(s) of the rack, and facilitates transfer of heat from the component(s) to the coolant. The tube connects in fluid communication one coolant-cooled structure and the other of the coolant inlet or outlet of the one tube section, and facilitates flow of coolant directly between that coolant-carrying tube section of the heat exchanger and the coolant-cooled structure.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于电子机架的冷却装置，其包括空气 - 液体热交换器，一个或多个冷却剂冷却结构和管。 与电子机架相关联并设置成冷却通过齿条的空气的热交换器包括多个不同的冷却剂承载管部分，每个管部分具有冷却剂入口和冷却剂出口，其中一个耦合 与冷却剂回路流体连通以便于冷却剂流过管段。 冷却剂冷却结构与机架的电子部件热接触，并且有助于将热量从部件传递到冷却剂。 该管连接流体连通一个冷却剂冷却结构和一个管部分的冷却剂入口或出口中的另一个，并且促使冷却剂直接在热交换器的冷却剂承载管部分和冷却剂冷却结构之间流动。

公开(公告)号：US09307674B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-05

申请号：US13102200

申请日：2011-05-06

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： H01L23/427 ,  H01L23/473 ,  H05K7/20 ,  F28D15/02

CPC分类号： H05K7/20336 ,  F28D15/02 ,  H05K7/20509 ,  H05K7/20772 ,  H05K7/20936

摘要： Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The apparatus includes a liquid-cooled cold plate and a thermal spreader associated with the cold plate. The cold plate includes multiple coolant-carrying channel sections extending within the cold plate, and a thermal conduction surface with a larger surface area than a surface area of the component to be cooled. The thermal spreader includes one or more heat pipes including multiple heat pipe sections. One or more heat pipe sections are partially aligned to a first region of the cold plate, that is, where aligned to the surface to be cooled, and partially aligned to a second region of the cold plate, which is outside the first region. The one or more heat pipes facilitate distribution of heat from the electronic component to coolant-carrying channel sections of the cold plate located in the second region of the cold plate.

公开(公告)号：US09027360B2

公开(公告)日：2015-05-12

申请号：US13102195

申请日：2011-05-06

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  David P. Graybill ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Vinod Kamath ,  Bejoy J. Kochuparambil ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark E. Steinke

IPC分类号： F25D23/12 ,  F25D17/06

CPC分类号： H05K7/20763 ,  F25B21/02 ,  F25B21/04 ,  F25D17/06 ,  H05K7/20254 ,  H05K7/20263 ,  H05K7/20781 ,  H05K7/2079 ,  H05K7/20836

摘要： Apparatus and method are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The apparatus includes a liquid-cooled structure, a thermal conduction path coupling the electronic component and the liquid-cooled structure, a coolant loop in fluid communication with a coolant-carrying channel of the liquid-cooled structure, and an outdoor-air-cooled heat exchange unit coupled to facilitate heat transfer from the liquid-cooled structure via, at least in part, the coolant loop. The thermoelectric array facilitates transfer of heat from the electronic component to the liquid-cooled structure, and the heat exchange unit cools coolant passing through the coolant loop by dissipating heat from the coolant to outdoor ambient air. In one implementation, temperature of coolant entering the liquid-cooled structure is greater than temperature of the outdoor ambient air to which heat is dissipated.

摘要翻译： 提供了用于促进电子部件的冷却的装置和方法。 该装置包括液冷结构，耦合电子部件和液冷结构的热传导路径，与液冷结构的冷却剂传送通道流体连通的冷却剂回路，室外空气冷却 热交换单元被耦合以便于至少部分地通过冷却剂回路从液冷结构经由热传递。 热电阵列有助于将热量从电子部件传递到液冷结构，并且热交换单元通过将冷却剂的热量散发到室外环境空气来冷却通过冷却剂回路的冷却剂。 在一个实施方案中，进入液冷结构的冷却剂的温度大于散热的室外环境空气的温度。

公开(公告)号：US09043035B2

公开(公告)日：2015-05-26

申请号：US13305967

申请日：2011-11-29

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Milnes P. David ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Milnes P. David ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida ,  Roger R. Schmidt ,  Mark D. Schultz

IPC分类号： G06F19/00 ,  G05D7/06 ,  G06F1/20 ,  G11B33/14 ,  H05K7/20 ,  G06F1/32

CPC分类号： G05D7/0635 ,  G06F1/20 ,  G06F1/206 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G11B33/144 ,  H05K7/20281 ,  H05K7/20781 ,  H05K7/2079 ,  H05K7/20836 ,  Y02D10/16

摘要： Cooling apparatuses and methods are provided which include one or more coolant-cooled structures associated with an electronics rack, a coolant loop coupled in fluid communication with one or more passages of the coolant-cooled structure(s), one or more heat exchange units coupled to facilitate heat transfer from coolant within the coolant loop, and N controllable components associated with the coolant loop or the heat exchange unit(s), wherein N≧1. The N controllable components facilitate circulation of coolant through the coolant loop or transfer of heat from the coolant via the heat exchange unit(s). A controller is coupled to the N controllable components, and dynamically adjusts operation of the N controllable components, based on Z input parameters and one or more specified constraints, to provide a specified cooling to the coolant-cooled structure(s), while limiting energy consumed by the N controllable components, wherein Z≧1.

摘要翻译： 提供了冷却装置和方法，其包括与电子机架相关联的一个或多个冷却剂冷却结构，与冷却剂冷却结构的一个或多个通道流体连通的冷却剂回路，一个或多个热交换单元 以促进从冷却剂回路内的冷却剂的热传递，以及与冷却剂回路或热交换单元相关联的N个可控部件，其中N≥1。 N个可控部件促使冷却剂循环通过冷却剂回路或通过热交换单元从冷却剂传递热量。 控制器耦合到N个可控组件，并且基于Z输入参数和一个或多个指定的约束来动态调整N个可控组件的操作，以向冷却剂冷却的结构提供特定的冷却，同时限制能量 由N个可控部件消耗，其中Z≥1。

公开(公告)号：US09445529B2

公开(公告)日：2016-09-13

申请号：US13479265

申请日：2012-05-23

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida

IPC分类号： G06G7/56 ,  H05K7/20

CPC分类号： H05K7/2079 ,  H05K7/20836

摘要： Input data, specifying aspects of a thermal design of a liquid cooled data center, is obtained. The input data includes data indicative of ambient outdoor temperature for a location of the data center; and/or data representing workload power dissipation for the data center. The input data is evaluated to obtain performance of the data center thermal design. The performance includes cooling energy usage; and/or one pertinent temperature associated with the data center. The performance of the data center thermal design is output.

摘要翻译： 获得了指定液冷数据中心的热设计方面的输入数据。 输入数据包括指示数据中心位置的环境室外温度的数据; 和/或表示数据中心的工作负载功耗的数据。 评估输入数据以获得数据中心热设计的性能。 性能包括冷却能量的使用; 和/或与数据中心相关联的一个相关温度。 输出数据中心散热设计的性能。

公开(公告)号：US09250636B2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-02

申请号：US13439471

申请日：2012-04-04

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Milnes P. David ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida ,  Robert E. Simons

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Milnes P. David ,  Madhusudan K. Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida ,  Robert E. Simons

IPC分类号： G05D23/00 ,  G05D23/19 ,  G06F1/20 ,  H05K7/20

CPC分类号： H05K7/20836 ,  F28F27/02 ,  G05D23/1932 ,  G06F1/206 ,  G06F2200/201 ,  Y02D10/16

摘要： Cooling control methods include measuring a temperature of air provided to a plurality of nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger, measuring a temperature of at least one component of the plurality of nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes, comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold, and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the plurality of nodes based on the comparisons.

摘要翻译： 冷却控制方法包括通过空气 - 液体热交换器测量提供给多个节点的空气的温度，测量多个节点中的至少一个部件的温度并且在所有这些节点之间找到最大分量温度，比较 将最大部件温度提高到第一和第二部件阈值，并将空气温度与第一和第二空气阈值进行比较，并且控制冷却剂流量和冷却剂流量的比例到空气到液体热交换器和多个节点 基于比较。

公开(公告)号：US20130317785A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-28

申请号：US13479265

申请日：2012-05-23

申请人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Madhusudan K . Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida

发明人： Timothy J. Chainer ,  Madhusudan K . Iyengar ,  Pritish R. Parida

IPC分类号： G06F1/20 ,  G06F17/50

CPC分类号： H05K7/2079 ,  H05K7/20836

摘要： Input data, specifying aspects of a thermal design of a liquid cooled data center, is obtained. The input data includes data indicative of ambient outdoor temperature for a location of the data center; and/or data representing workload power dissipation for the data center. The input data is evaluated to obtain performance of the data center thermal design. The performance includes cooling energy usage; and/or one pertinent temperature associated with the data center. The performance of the data center thermal design is output.

摘要翻译： 获得了指定液冷数据中心的热设计方面的输入数据。 输入数据包括指示数据中心位置的环境室外温度的数据; 和/或表示数据中心的工作负载功耗的数据。 评估输入数据以获得数据中心热设计的性能。 性能包括冷却能量的使用; 和/或与数据中心相关联的一个相关温度。 输出数据中心散热设计的性能。