Patent ID: 7455103
Filing Date: 2008-11-25
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A cooling system for an electronic equipment having a heat generating portion, said cooling system comprising: a heat radiating portion; a pump that circulates a liquid cooling medium between the heat generating portion and the heat radiating portion, said liquid cooling medium having a viscosity that decreases as a temperature thereof increases; a fan that discharges heat of the heat radiating portion to an outside, a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the heat generating portion, means for storing predetermined storage information that prescribes a relationship between temperature of the heat generating portion and driving voltages of the pump and the fan, and a control device configured to determine and control voltages of the pump and the fan on the basis of temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the storage information, wherein said storage information regulates the driving voltages of the pump and the fan so as to make the driving voltage of the pump high and increase a cooling capacity when the temperature of the heat generating portion increases, and further to make the driving voltage of the fan high and increase a cooling capacity when the temperature of the heat generating portion increases to increase an amount of heat generation, and wherein said control device is configured to operate said pump and fan at a predetermined non-zero voltage when the temperature detected by said temperature sensor does not exceed a first temperature, and further said control device, using said storage information, is configured to maintain the driving voltage of the fan unchanged and to continuously increase the driving voltage of the pump to increase a flow rate of said liquid cooling medium and to increase a cooling capacity of the cooling system when the temperature detected by said temperature sensor increases between said first temperature and a second temperature higher than said first temperature, and to increase the driving voltage of the fan to further increase a flow rate of the fan and to further increase the cooling capacity of the cooling system when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor exceeds said second temperature higher than said first temperature.