Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Patent
1998-07-31
1999-09-07
Picard, Leo P.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
361690, 361694, 361704, 165 803, 16510433, 16510434, 174 151, 174 161, H05K 720
Patent
active
059496460
ABSTRACT:
A computer having a compact enclosure separated into two cooperative compartments, each having a pair of air fans for cooling electrical heat generating elements located in each compartment, the pair of fans being arranged on common sides of the compartments, one fan serving as a redundant fan on the failure of one of the other fans, the compartments are interconnected on opposite sides relative to the fans by an airflow plenum and separated by an airflow blockage wall in a manner that cooling air introduced into one compartment is circulated through both compartments before being exhausted from the other compartment.
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Eberhardt Anthony N.
Eberhardt Eric R.
Lee Mario J.
Chervinsky Boris L.
Picard Leo P.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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