Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Temperature measuring system
Patent
1996-01-16
2000-02-22
Assouad, Patrick
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Temperature measuring system
G01K 1500
Patent
active
060291192
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method and apparatus for the thermal management of computers. The method features determining a temperature of a predetermined location in the computer, reading indirect inputs of the computer, determining desired states of cooling options based on the temperature and the indirect inputs, and placing the cooling options in their desired states. To determine the desired states of the cooling options, an index is formed based on the indirect inputs; and the index indicates to which of a plurality of tables of desired states of the cooling options to refer. Alternatively, the desired states of the cooling options are determined by adjusting the value of the temperature input based on the indirect inputs; the desired states of the cooling options also are dependent on the adjusted value of the measured temperature.
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Assouad Patrick
Compaq Computer Corporation
Groover Robert
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