Patent ID: 8180495
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cooling electronic equipment contained within a floor of a building, in conjunction with a plurality of air conditioning units that each create cool air and include an exhaust fan and a cooling fan and a plurality of actuators that control a plurality of dampers associated with the plurality of air conditioning units, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of cabinets disposed on the floor of the building for holding the electronic equipment therein, the plurality of cabinets positioned in a plurality of rows within each of a plurality of cabinet clusters so that the electronic equipment disposed within the cabinets emit heated air from the cabinets in each row of each cabinet cluster toward a central hot air area associated with each cabinet cluster; a hot air containment chamber disposed within the building over each of the plurality of cabinet clusters that traps the heated air within the central hot air area and causes substantially all the heated air within the central hot air area to rise up within the hot air containment chamber and exit through a hot air escape opening of the associated hot air containment chamber; a warm air escape gap disposed within the building and disposed above each of the hot air containment chambers, the warm air escape gap collecting the heated air from each of the hot air containment chambers and feeding the heated air to the air conditioning units, the warm air escape gap being lowerly bounded by a ceiling, wherein the ceiling contains ceiling openings that each align with one of the hot air escape openings in each of the hot air containment chambers; cool air ducts disposed within the building that deliver the cool air from the plurality of air conditioning units toward a periphery of the plurality of rows of cabinets within each of the plurality of cabinet clusters; and a control system, the control system comprising: