Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Parallel-series hybrid fan cooling apparatus and optimization
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Application No.: US14930217Application Date: 2015-11-02
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Publication No.: US11035371B2Publication Date: 2021-06-15
- Inventor: David Barron , Rachael C. Freitas , Howard V. Mahaney, Jr. , Benjamin W. Mashak , George Zacharakis-Jutz
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: F04D19/00
- IPC: F04D19/00 ; F04D27/00 ; G05B15/02 ; G06F1/20 ; F04D25/16

Abstract:
A method of cooling a heat generating enclosure includes setting a speed of each fan in a first array of fans, wherein each fan in the first array of fans is a first size, is disclosed. The method further includes measuring a process variable. The method also includes calculating a cooling strategy based at least in part on the value of the process variable. The method further includes setting the speed of each fan in the first array of fans or the speed of each fan in a second array of fans, wherein the second array of fans is in series to the first array of fans and each fan in the second array of fans is a second size, and wherein the speed of each fan that is set in the first or second array is set to implement the cooling strategy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170082112A1 PARALLEL-SERIES HYBRID FAN COOLING APPARATUS AND OPTIMIZATION Public/Granted day:2017-03-23
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