Patent ID: 9060451
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. A method of cooling electronic equipment, comprising: circulating ambient air directly from a workspace across a plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices located in a rack that is open to the workspace during ordinary operation; monitoring the temperature of the ambient air circulated across a group of devices in the plurality of rack-mounted electronic devices; and providing cooler-than-ambient air simultaneously with the ambient air to the group of devices when a high cooling load is sensed for the group of devices while providing only ambient air to other devices in the plurality of devices not including the group of devices, wherein at least a portion of the group of devices in the plurality of devices is accessible from the workspace through the open rack as the cooler-than-ambient air is circulated to the group of devices to supplement the ambient air circulated across the plurality of devices, and the group of devices are serviceably accessible through the rack that is open to the workspace as the cooler-than-ambient air is provided to the group of devices.