3-way quick-disconnect fluid couplings with automatic bypass switching

Abstract

A 3-way fluid coupling for an information processing device having a primary liquid cooling loop and an expansion space. When no expansion device is present, the coupling directs liquid down a bypass path of the primarily loop. When an expansion device is present in the expansion space, the coupling directs liquid to flow through an expansion liquid cooling loop of the expansion device while substantially blocking liquid from flowing through the bypass path. The 3-way fluid coupling has a body and a poppet in the body. The poppet moves between a first position, in which first and second ports of the body are open while a third port is closed, thus directing liquid along the bypass path, and a second position in which the first and third ports are open and the second port is blocked, thus directing liquid to the expansion loop and substantially blocking the bypass path.