Patent ID: 8845403
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A system for individually cooling one or more computers in a rack of computers in a data center, the system comprising: an air intake chamber, the air intake chamber having a first opening at a bottom end for receiving air from beneath the data center through perforated tiles in the floor of the data center and a plurality of openings at a top end for providing air into a plurality of flexible air channels; and the plurality of flexible air channels, each air channel having: a first end opening into the air intake chamber, an opening at a second end, and a connector connecting the second end of the flexible air channel to a particular position in the rack corresponding to the location of a particular computer in the rack so as to direct airflow to the particular computer; wherein the plurality of flexible air channels comprise flexible accordion tubes; wherein the opening of the second end of each of the plurality of flexible air channels is shaped to conform to the profile of a computer in the rack.