Green Revolution Cooling Assigned Patent
Air-cooling hard drives in liquid-cooled server rack
By Francis Pelletier | September 25, 2017 at 2:17 pmGreen Revolution Cooling, Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,756,766) developed by Best, Christiaan Scott, Austin, TX, for a “system and method for air-cooling hard drives in liquid-cooled server rack.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments that allow for the air cooling of disk drives associated with liquid cooled nodes are disclosed. A node for performing computing operations includes a frame, a power supply coupled to the |frame|.sub.[CB1], and one or more liquid coolant-submersible motherboard assemblies. The one or more motherboard assemblies are configured to operate when submersed in a liquid coolant. The motherboard assemblies are mounted on the frame with one or more spaces between. The spaces form one or more channels between the motherboard assemblies. The frame includes an opening on at least one end of the one or more channels.“
The patent application was filed on May 13, 2015 (14/711,523).