Coolant manifold with separately rotatable manifold section(s)

US8922998B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Levi A. Campbell · Poughkeepsie, US
• Richard C. Chu · Hopewell Junction, US
• Milnes P. David · Fishkill, US
• Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. · Poughkeepsie, US
• Madhusudan K. Iyengar · Woodstock, US
• Eric J. McKeever · Poughkeepsie, US
• Robert E. Simons · Poughkeepsie, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 26, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 30, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49389
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A cooling apparatus is provided which includes one or more coolant-cooled structures attached to one or more electronic components, one or more coolant conduits, and one or more coolant manifolds. The coolant-cooled structure(s) includes one or more coolant-carrying channels, and the coolant manifolds includes one or more rotatable manifold sections. One coolant conduit couples in fluid communication a respective rotatable manifold section and the coolant-carrying channel(s) of a respective coolant-cooled structure. The respective rotatable manifold section is rotatable relative to another portion of the coolant manifold to facilitate detaching of the coolant-cooled structure from its associated electronic component while maintaining the coolant-cooled structure in fluid communication with the respective rotatable manifold section through the one coolant conduit, which in one embodiment, is a substantially rigid coolant conduit.