Global Patent Index - EP 1997362 A1

EP 1997362 A1 20081203 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING A SERVER-BASED DATA CENTER

Title (en)

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING A SERVER-BASED DATA CENTER

Title (de)

SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUM KÜHLEN EINES SERVERBASIERTEN DATENZENTRUMS

Title (fr)

SYSTÈME ET MÉTHODE DE REFROIDISSEMENT D'UN CENTRE DE DONNÉES FONDÉ SUR UN SERVEUR GRÂCE À UN REFROIDISSEMENT AU DESSOUS DE LA TEMPÉRATURE AMBIANTE

Publication

EP 1997362 A1 20081203 (EN)

Application

EP 07750945 A 20070214

Priority

  • US 2007004146 W 20070214
  • US 37168106 A 20060308

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2007102978A1] According to one embodiment of the invention, a cooling system for heat- generating structures comprises a plurality of heat exchangers, a structure which directs flow of the fluid coolant substantially in the form of a liquid to each of the plurality of heat exchangers, and a structure which reduces a pressure of the fluid coolant to a pressure at which the fluid coolant has a boiling temperature less than a temperature of the heat- generating structures. Each of the plurality of heat exchangers is in thermal communication with at least one of the heat-generating structures and has an inlet and an outlet. Thermal energy from the heat-generating structure causes the fluid coolant substantially in the form of a liquid to boil and vaporize in each of the plurality of heat exchangers so that the fluid coolant absorbs thermal energy from the heat-generating structure as the fluid coolant changes state.

IPC 8 full level

H05K 7/20 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

F28D 15/0266 (2013.01 - EP US); H05K 7/20827 (2013.01 - EP US); F28C 2001/006 (2013.01 - EP US); F28D 2021/0019 (2013.01 - EP US); F28D 2021/0031 (2013.01 - EP US); F28F 2265/14 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2007102978A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2007102978 A1 20070913; EP 1997362 A1 20081203; JP 2009529237 A 20090813; US 2007209782 A1 20070913

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2007004146 W 20070214; EP 07750945 A 20070214; JP 2008558282 A 20070214; US 37168106 A 20060308