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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2005
Zoran Stefanoski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoran Stefanoski, San Francisco, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention represents a significant advancement in the field of cooling systems for computer hardware. One embodiment of a system for cooling a heat-generating device includes a housing sized to fit within a drive bay of a computing device, a heat exchanger disposed within the housing and configured to transfer heat from liquid to air, a fan disposed within the housing and configured to force air through the heat exchanger, and a pump disposed within the housing and configured to circulate a liquid through a cold plate sub-assembly and back to the heat exchanger. The cold plate sub-assembly is configured to be thermally coupled to the heat-generating device. The disclosed system may be advantageously disposed in any computing device whose chassis has a standard-sized drive bay, thereby enabling the system to be easily implemented across a wide variety of computing devices.