Dell Products Inc.

Robert Boyd Curtis

Mukund Purshottam Khatri

Chris Everett Peterson

Dominick Adam Lovicott

Bernard D Strmiska

Richard Mark Eiland

Richard Andrew Crisp

Corey Dean Hartman

Shawn Joel Dube

Jonathan Foster Lewis

Robert Warren Johnson

Timothy Michael Lambert

Sandor Tibor Farkas

Austin Michael Shelnutt

Kevin Warren Mundt

Shawn Paul Hoss

Isaac Qin Wang

James Utz

Jordan Chin

Ayedin Nikazm

Sean P O'Donnell

Lawrence Alan Kyle

Matthew Bryan Gilbert

Ralph Warren Jensen

James Lewis Petivan

Randall Smith

William K Coxe, Jr

Bruce McLellan

Megan Cherie Wingfield

William Beck

Destin Ray

Adam Kelly

Matthew Parmlee

Elliot Le

Tim M Spencer

Henry Gomez

An information handling system may include a motherboard, an information handling resource, a heat spreader thermally coupled to the information handling resource, and a load plate mechanically coupled to the motherboard in order to maintain electrical and mechanical coupling of the information handling resource to the motherboard. The load plate may include a body at least partially overlapping with and mechanically coupled to the heat spreader when the load plate is mechanically coupled to the motherboard, an opening formed within the body and configured to expose the heat spreader through the opening when the load plate is mechanically coupled to the motherboard, and an angled feature formed at one edge of a perimeter of the opening and decreasing in depth from the opening to the body.

Processor load plate for two-phase liquid immersion cooling

A system may include an information handling resource, a liquid cooling system for providing cooling of the information handling resource, a management controller for providing out-of-band management of the system, and a flow-rate sensor coupled to the liquid cooling system and configured to measure a volume of flow of fluid through a fluidic channel of the liquid cooling system per unit time and communicate one or more signals to the management controller indicative of the volume of the flow of the fluid through the fluidic channel of the liquid cooling system per unit time.

Systems and methods for flow rate detection in a liquid cooling system

A method may include receiving power information from an information handling resource regarding an amount of electrical power consumed by the information handling resource, receiving first temperature information from a first temperature sensor regarding a first temperature, receiving second temperature information from the second temperature sensor regarding a second temperature, and based on the power information, the first temperature information, and the second temperature information, estimating a fluid flow rate of the liquid coolant through the liquid cooling system.

Systems and methods for estimating flow rate in a liquid cooling system

Information handling system (IHS) component immersion cooling systems and methods employ an apparatus having an IHS component immersion cooling flow passage housing disposed at (a) IHS component(s) of an IHS disposed in an immersion cooling tank. The IHS component immersion cooling flow passage housing has an immersion fluid inlet open to immersion fluid within tank and an immersion fluid outlet connected to a return line of an immersion fluid pump. The IHS component cooling apparatus flow passage housing may be a cold plate or a ducted heatsink disposed on, or about, the IHS component(s) of the IHS disposed in the immersion cooling tank. The immersion fluid pump may be the pump that also circulates the immersion fluid within the tank. The tank may include a manifold in fluid flow communication with the pump. This manifold may receive a plurality of return lines, each from an IHS component cooling apparatus.

Enhanced information handling system component immersion cooling via pump return connection

A programmable dynamic information handling system rack lighting system may include an array of a plurality of visual indicators configured to be programmed such that each information handling system of a chassis is associated with a set of one or more of the plurality of visual indicators and a lighting control subsystem configured to control illumination of the plurality of visual indicators based on statuses of information handling systems of the chassis, such that the lighting control subsystem causes each set of the visual indicators to illuminate based on a status of the respective information handling system associated with such set.

Programmable dynamic information handling system rack lighting system

A cable assembly may include a cable communicatively coupling a first information handling resource to a second information handling resource and a cable chain for guiding a routing of the cable, the cable chain comprising a plurality of cable chain links. Each cable chain link may include a plurality of coupling features for rotatably coupling, about an axis, such cable chain link to another cable chain link, one or more limiting features for limiting a rotation of such cable chain link to the other cable chain link, and an opening formed in such cable chain link and configured such that the cable chain has a lengthwise opening along one side of the cable chain which forms a channel for receiving the cable.

Cable chain for use in cable management

An information handling system may include an information handling resource, a liquid cooling system for providing cooling of the information handling resource, and a leak detection system for detecting a leak of fluid from the liquid cooling system, the leak detection system comprising a leak detection circuit having at least one moisture-sensitive portion configured to detect the presence of moisture proximate to the leak detection circuit and circuitry configured to communicate one or more electrical signals indicative of the presence or absence of moisture proximate to the leak detection circuit and a moisture wicking material mechanically coupled to the leak detection circuit and configured to transport moisture within the moisture wicking material to the at least one moisture-sensitive portion of the leak detection circuit.

Detecting leaks in liquid-cooled information handling systems with moisture wicking material

A method for providing thermal control of an information handling system may include in response to a request to power on the information handling system, in order to pre-condition a temperature associated with the information handling system to within a desired temperature range, receiving an indication of a temperature associated with the information handling system and based on the indication of the temperature associated with the information handling system, control the one or more temperature control elements for regulating a liquid of a liquid thermal control system to cause the temperature associated with the information handling system to fall within the desired temperature range prior to full powering on of the information handling system.

Systems and methods for pre-conditioning system temperature using liquid

An electronic device includes a packaged device and a thermal dissipater. The packaged device includes a component that generates thermal energy, a package that encapsulates the component, and an interconnect that forms a portion of a high thermal conduction between the component and a circuit card. The thermal dissipater obtains the thermal energy using the circuit card and radiates the thermal energy.

System and method for enhanced cooling

A method of thermally managing an information handling system includes executing a security scan to simulate a maximum workload consuming an electrical power, and receiving sensory signals representing temperatures associated with the information handling system. A system ambient capability above an ambient temperature when operating the information handling system at the maximum workload is then determined.

System and method for thermal management in an information handling system

An active device module may include an active device, a housing configured to house the active device, and heat-rejecting media thermally coupled to the active device and mechanically coupled to the housing such that when the active device module is coupled to an input/output interface of an information handling system, at least a portion of the heat-rejecting media resides external to a chassis enclosing components of the information handling system such that physical shape and size of the heat-rejecting media is not constrained by the chassis.

Systems and methods for providing heat-rejecting media on a cable assembly

A cooling system for a server rack may cool one or more servers and one or more components thereof. The cooling system may comprise an air mover, an air delivery manifold, and one or more injection ducts for the one or more servers. The air mover may be located in an air mover module positioned in the server rack and may generate a pressurized airflow. The air delivery manifold receives the pressurized airflow generated by the air mover, and may have delivery ports and provide a fluid path for airflow out of the delivery ports to the injection ducts. The injection ducts may be used to inject the airflow of cooling air into the servers to cool the servers and one or more components thereof.

System and method for injecting cooling air into servers in a server rack

An information handling system may include a processor having a plurality of cores integrated within an integrated circuit package and a thermal controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to, responsive to absence of a condition for operating the processor with a reduced core count, control the processor in accordance with a standard thermal profile defining a maximum operating temperature of the processor as a function of power consumed by the processor, and responsive to presence of the condition for operating the processor with the reduced core count, control the processor in accordance with a modified thermal profile defining a modified maximum operating temperature of the processor as a function of power consumed by the processor, wherein for a given power consumption of the processor, the modified thermal profile defines a modified maximum temperature that is greater than the maximum operating temperature defined by the standard thermal profile.

Systems and methods for thermal throttling via processor core count reduction and thermal load line shift

Systems and methods for fan typing and anomaly detection may provide a pulse width modulation (PWM) control signal with a predetermined threshold duty cycle to a fan, receive a tachometer signal from the fan while the PWM control signal has the threshold duty cycle, and compare the frequency of the tachometer signal (expressed in revolutions per minute) to an expected tachometer frequency for fans of a first fan type with the PWM control signal having the threshold duty cycle, according to an RPM vs. PWM curve specified for fans of the first fan type. The systems and methods may determine, based on the comparison, that the fan is of the first fan type and provide an indication that the fan is of the first fan type to a fan controller. Deviations from expected tachometer responses may indicate an anomaly, such as an actual fan failure or a predicted fan failure.

Systems and methods for fan typing and anomaly detection

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system enclosure may include a plurality of slots, each slot configured to receive an information handling system and a rack tile airflow controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of slots. The rack tile airflow controller may be configured to receive from each information handling system an indication of an individual airflow consumption of the information handling systems, aggregate the individual airflow consumptions of the information handling systems to determine a total enclosure-level airflow, and communicate one or more control signals to an active floor tile in fluid communication with the information handling system enclosure, the active floor tile including one or more air movers, and the one or more control signals for controlling a tile airflow generated by the one or more air movers in accordance with the total enclosure-level airflow.

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Robert Boyd Curtis