Source: http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7154748
Timestamp: 2017-12-16 03:39:53
Document Index: 233713598

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 138', 'art 142', 'art 142', 'arts 106', 'art 118', 'arts 138']

Patent US7154748 - Cooling structure of electronic equipment and information processing ... - Google Patents
A cooling structure of an electronic equipment includes substrate housing parts, an upstream side duct, a downstream side duct, an exhaust device and an air adjusting part. The substrate housing parts detachably house therein one or plurality of substrate units, and the downstream side duct allows the...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7154748?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7154748 - Cooling structure of electronic equipment and information processing equipment using the cooling structure
Publication number US7154748 B2
Application number US 10/767,495
Also published as US20040184233
Publication number 10767495, 767495, US 7154748 B2, US 7154748B2, US-B2-7154748, US7154748 B2, US7154748B2
Inventors Satoru Yamada
Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (145), Classifications (7), Legal Events (3)
Cooling structure of electronic equipment and information processing equipment using the cooling structure
US 7154748 B2
According to this embodiment, there is installed an exhaust guide 148, which connects the exhaust part 138 of the housing units 132 to the second exhaust part 142 at the housing 100 side for exhausting air, in the exhaust side duct 116 of the housing 100. The exhaust guide 148 is structured to serve as guide means for guiding exhaust air from the housing units 132 to the second exhaust part 142 while separating from the exhaust air at the exhaust side duct 116 side, also to serve as supporting means for supporting the housing units 132 in the housing 100. That is, the air for cooling W at the substrate housing parts 106 side is divided into air for cooling WA at the exhaust side duct 116 side and air for cooling WB at the housing units 132 side, wherein the air for cooling WA is independently exhausted to the outer air by means of the first exhaust part 118 and the fans 122 while the air for cooling WB is independently exhausted to the outer air by means of the exhausts parts 138, 142 and the fan 140
Further, as shown in FIG. 14, for example, independent power supplies 156, 158, 160 are connected to motors 150, 152, 154 of the fans 122, 136, 140 for supplying power to the motors 150, 152, 154, wherein the power supplies 156, 158, 160 are controlled in supply of power by a controller 162 serving as control means for controlling exhaust capacity, and the number of revolutions of the motors 150, 152, 154 can be adjusted. In this case, although the fans 122, 136, 140 are structured by each set thereof, multiple sets of the axial-flow fan are installed in parallel with one another, and they may be driven by independent power supplies. With such an arrangement, safety efficiency can be enhanced.
Next, FIGS. 19 and 20 show an information processing equipment according to a second embodiment of the invention, wherein FIG. 19 is a front view of the information processing equipment and FIG. 20 is a rear view thereof. The information processing equipment is structured as a large server unit or a disk array unit, wherein a main enclosure 180 is installed on a lower stage of a main frame 178 and another enclosure 182 is installed on an upper stage of the main frame 178. The housing 100 as shown in FIGS. 6 to 8 is installed in the main enclosure 180, and a main unit 184 having the cooling structure as set forth above and a subunit 186 on the upper stage thereof are respectively detachably installed in the housing 100. The main unit 184 corresponds to the substrate units 108 as set forth above, and structures a power supply and information processing part. A DC—DC converter and so forth are mounted on the subunit 186. A hard disk unit and so forth are mounted on the other enclosure 182.
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U.S. Classification 361/690, 361/695, 454/184
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