PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["361", "679510"]

Abstract:
Enhanced cooling for electronic components within a computing device is provided. Blowers are preferably leveraged as air movers, and an airflow deflection surface (preferably configured as a ramp) is disposed within a plenum to guide airflow under an electronic component (such as a hard disk drive or solid state drive), the electronic component being placed in an inverted alignment whereby a surface having a higher heat transfer rate is facing down (toward the blower), and then into an intake of the blower. Air output from the blower may then pass into a downstream plenum formed at least in part by the blower, an inverted downstream electronic component, and a support member thereof, thus providing serial cooling of the downstream component. Anti-recirculation flaps are preferably disposed at the air output of the blower.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for cooling electronic components within a computing device, comprising:\n disposing an air mover within a housing of the computing device, the air mover having an intake and an exit; placing an electronic component within the housing in an inverted alignment whereby a surface thereof having a higher heat transfer rate is facing downward toward the air mover; disposing an airflow deflection surface in a plenum within the housing, the plenum being disposed between the air mover and the surface of the electronic component, whereby the airflow deflection surface and the intake cause an airflow path that cools the surface of the electronic component to pass, at least in part, between the downward-facing surface of the electronic component and an upper side of the airflow deflection surface before entering into the intake of the air mover, the upper side of the airflow deflection surface being disposed toward the downward-facing surface of the electronic component, wherein:\n air enters the cooling system through a hollow chamber disposed as an outer wall of a housing of the computing device, the hollow chamber comprising a outer chamber wall and an inner chamber wall, the outer chamber wall comprising a first plurality of perforations that allow the air to enter the chamber and the inner chamber wall comprising a second plurality of perforations that allow the air to enter the cooling system without being overly impeded, the second plurality of perforations being fewer in number than the first plurality; and \n the second plurality of perforations are clustered in an upper portion of the inner chamber wall to cause the airflow to enter into the plenum from an upper height so as to be in close proximity to the downward-facing surface of the electronic component before being forced downward into the air mover by the airflow deflection surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82716
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15379036', '11393759', '10898736', '12990793', '14962604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8007578531581119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5566335513301255
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7763454229753133
- Mean Citation Score: 233.767398
- Max Citation Score: 416.1738
- Similarity Product: 392.4379354225159

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test