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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2022
Applicant:

Softiron Limited, Chilworth, GB;

Inventors:

Phillip Edward Straw, Newark, CA (US);

Robert Drury, Louth, GB;

David Patrick Anders, Hurst, TX (US);

Alan Ott, Oviedo, FL (US);

Bryan Keith Larmore, Astatula, FL (US);

Assignee:

SOFTIRON LIMITED, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/20 (2006.01); F04D 27/00 (2006.01); F04D 29/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 (2013.01); F04D 27/004 (2013.01); F04D 29/661 (2013.01); G06F 2200/201 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fan device used with respect to a computing device. The fan device includes at least two fans that provide airflow for the computing device and a controller that adjusts the fans' speeds in an attempt to avoid harmonic vibrations of the at least two fans. The fan device may include at least one sensor, and the controller may adjust the fans' speeds based at least on information from the sensor(s) in the attempt to avoid the harmonic vibrations. The attempt to avoid the harmonic vibrations may also attempt to mitigate one or more of turbulence, pressure, over-heating, power consumption, or noise in, by, or around the computing device. Reversal of airflow may also be used. A fan bar that enables isolation of ground return noise may also be used. The controller may use sums of primes calculations, phase analysis, common divisor calculations, and the like. Also, associated methods.


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