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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Timothy J. Chainer, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
David P. Graybill, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Foster City, CA (US);
Vinod Kamath, Raleigh, NC (US);
Bejoy J. Kochuparambil, Apex, NC (US);
Roger R. Schmidt, Pougkeepsie, NY (US);
Mark E. Steinke, Durham, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The methods include providing: a liquid-cooled structure, a thermal conduction path coupling the electronic component and the liquid-cooled structure, a coolant loop in fluid communication with a coolant-carrying channel of the liquid-cooled structure, and an outdoor-air-cooled heat exchange unit coupled to facilitate heat transfer from the liquid-cooled structure via, at least in part, the coolant loop. The thermoelectric array facilitates transfer of heat from the electronic component to the liquid-cooled structure, and the heat exchange unit cools coolant passing through the coolant loop by dissipating heat from the coolant to outdoor ambient air. In one implementation, temperature of coolant entering the liquid-cooled structure is greater than temperature of the outdoor ambient air to which heat is dissipated.