Louis Andres Rodriguez

US Patent:

6704196, Mar 9, 2004

Filed:

Jul 25, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/205765

Inventors:

Louis John Rodriguez - San Jose CA
Bryan Joseph Rodriguez - Woodside CA

Assignee:

Allied Systems Design, Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

H05K 720

US Classification:

361687, 361727, 16510433, 622592

Abstract:

A chassis-rack system mounts two 19â RETMA rack chassis back-to-back in the same vertical 1U-space. Each has an independent cooling system that draws-in cold air from respective front and rear panels. Such panels are provided with a series of slots that are blocked-off in different patterns according to empirical cooling tests, done with particular complements of internal constituent components. Such intakes are typically at a left side of the panel, and air drawn in is forced to flow to the back and around to the right by two floor-to-ceiling partition walls. Such walls can define bay for a CD-ROM, floppy disk, or PCI-bus. The drawn-in air is critically sequenced first over processors, memory, then hard disk drives, and finally over a power supply. The power supply is near the front on the right, typically, and-two 33-CFM fans exhaust the heated air out the respective panels. The chassis enclosures each have a lid with a special flat ductwork that conducts cold outside air directly to at least one CPU fan and heatsink.