Refrigeration – Structural installation – With electrical component cooling
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-13
2005-12-13
Jones, Melvin (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Structural installation
With electrical component cooling
C165S080300, C165S104320, C361S698000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06973801
ABSTRACT:
A cooling approach is provided for one or more subsystems of an electronics rack. The cooling approach employs a coolant distribution unit and a thermal dissipation unit. The coolant distribution unit has a first heat exchanger, a first cooling loop and a second cooling loop. The first cooling loop passes facility coolant through the first heat exchanger, and the second cooling loop provides system coolant to an electronics subsystem, and expels heat in the first heat exchanger from the subsystem to the facility coolant. The thermal dissipation unit is associated with the electronics subsystem and includes a second heat exchanger, the second cooling loop, and a third cooling loop. The second cooling loop provides system coolant to the second heat exchanger, and the third cooling loop circulates conditioned coolant within the electronics subsystem and expels heat in the second heat exchanger from the electronics subsystem to the system coolant.
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Campbell Levi A.
Chu Richard C.
Ellsworth, Jr. Michael J.
Iyengar Madhusudan K.
Schmidt Roger R.
Esq. Lily Neff
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & & Mesiti P.C.
Jones Melvin
Radigan, Esq. Kevin P.
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