Patent ID: 9699941
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H05K

Claim:
1. A chassis of an information handling system (IHS), the chassis comprising: a base wall and attached lateral sides defining a bottom partial enclosure with an air intake side and an opposing air exhaust side; a lateral segment spanning across a directional path of air travelling from the air intake side to the air exhaust side and including receiving affordances for insertion of a lateral support for a directional air mover; and a user-selectable one of a first lateral support and a second lateral support inserted into the lateral segment and secured to the receiving affordances, the first lateral support having apertures of a first size to receive respective first fan modules and the second lateral support having apertures of a second size to receive respective second fan modules, wherein each of the first and second lateral supports are attachable laterally across the lateral segment and an inserted one of the first and second lateral supports is selected based on a cooling air requirement corresponding to user selected compute components placed within the chassis to operate within the IHS; wherein the first and second lateral supports each comprise interconnecting electrical cabling that communicates between each aperture and the base wall of the chassis to power and to control the one of the first and second fan modules to channel cooling air through the chassis between the air intake and air exhaust sides.