Processor Heat Exchanger With Decoupled Mounting Brackets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer systems face inefficiencies and high costs due to the need for processor-specific heat exchangers that are customized to match specific processor dimensions and fastener patterns, limiting their use across different processor types and requiring separate inventories, which can lead to inventory management challenges and reduced flexibility.
Innovation Solution
A common heat exchanger design decouples the mounting arrangement from the heat exchanger itself, using flanges that extend from the heat exchanger to engage with separate mounting structures, allowing the same heat exchanger to be used with various processor types by employing complementary mounting brackets that match different dimensions and fastener layouts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If processor-specific heat exchangers are customized to match specific processor dimensions and fastener patterns, then thermal management effectiveness is improved, but inventory complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The heat exchanger is divided into two separate components: a common heat exchanger body and processor-specific mounting brackets. The mounting bracket acts as an intermediary that adapts the universal heat exchanger to different processor types, allowing the heat exchanger body to remain standardized while still providing effective thermal management for various processor configurations
Solution Approach 2:
A common heat exchanger design with standardized dimensions and mounting features is developed to work with multiple processor types. By using universal mounting brackets that can be configured for different processor dimensions and fastener patterns, the same heat exchanger body can serve multiple functions across different processor platforms, reducing inventory requirements
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate mounting structures are used to decouple the heat exchanger from processor-specific dimensions, then adaptability across processor types is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A mounting bracket serves as an intermediary component between the common heat exchanger and the processor. The mounting bracket is designed with configurable features that adapt to different processor dimensions and fastener patterns, while the heat exchanger body remains standardized. This intermediary approach enables adaptability without requiring complex modifications to the heat exchanger itself
3Quantity of substance
If a common heat exchanger design is used across multiple processor types, then inventory costs are reduced, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting brackets are pre-configured with specific dimensional features and fastener patterns that match particular processor types. This preliminary configuration allows the common heat exchanger to be mounted accurately on different processors without requiring high-precision manufacturing of the heat exchanger body itself, as the mounting bracket absorbs the adaptation requirements
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach allows for a single common heat exchanger to be used across multiple processor types, reducing inventory costs and improving reliability by enabling flexible configurations, while maintaining effective thermal management for various thermal dissipation requirements.
Implementation Method 1
waste heat from the processor is conducted to the heat exchanger
Implementation Method 2
transfer at least a portion of the heat conducted to the heat exchanger from the processor to a cooling fluid in fluid communication with the heat exchanger
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AI summary
A commonly designed processor heat exchanger decouples the mounting hardware used to mount the heat exchanger to a processor from the heat exchanger itself. This allows a single heat exchanger design to be mounted to various different types of processors using processor customized mounting brackets that engage with flanges extending out from a body of the heat exchanger.