Immersion cooling cable tracing system

Inventors: Shree Rathinasamy (Georgetown, TX); Victor Teeter (Round Rock, TX); Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, IN); Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, IN)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

H05K7/20272 H05K7/20236

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Patent No.: US 12684731
App. No.: 18/656,160
Granted: Jul 14, 2026
Kind: B2

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Abstract

An immersion cooling cable tracing system includes a data cable having a first connector that is included on a first end of the data cable, and a second connector that is included on a second end of the data cable that is opposite the data cable from the first end. An air conduit is included on the data cable, extends along a length of the data cable, that includes an air inlet that is configured to receive an airflow, and an air outlet that is located adjacent to the second connector. The air outlet is configured to release the airflow received through the air conduit and via the air inlet into an immersion fluid when the second connector and the air outlet are immersed in the immersion fluid.

Claims (37)

1 . An immersion cooling cable tracing system, comprising:

a data cable;

a first connector that is included on a first end of the data cable;

a second connector that is included on a second end of the data cable that is opposite the data cable from the first end; and

an air conduit that is included on the data cable, that extends along a length of the data cable, that includes an air inlet that is configured to receive an airflow, and that includes an air outlet that is located adjacent to the second connector and that is configured to release the airflow received through the air conduit and via the air inlet into an immersion fluid when the second connector and the air outlet are immersed in the immersion fluid.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the air inlet is located adjacent to the first connector.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the air conduit extends along an outer surface of the data cable.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the air conduit extends through an interior of the data cable.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the air conduit extends through the first connector, and the air inlet extends from the first connector and is configured to engage a computing device connector to couple to a pump device that is included in a computing device that includes the computing device connector and that is configured to generate the airflow.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the air inlet is configured to be directed towards a surface of an immersion fluid when the first connector engages a computing device port on a computing device that is immersed in the immersion fluid such that the first connector and the air inlet are immersed in the immersion fluid.

7 . An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

a chassis that is immersed in an immersion fluid;

a communication system that is housed in the chassis and that includes a communication port that is accessible on the chassis;

a processing system that is housed in the chassis and that is coupled to the communication port;

a data cable;

a first connector that is included on a first end of the data cable and that is connected to the communication port; and

an air conduit that is included on the data cable, that extends along a length of the data cable, that includes an air inlet that is configured to receive an airflow, and that includes an air outlet that is located adjacent to the first connector and that is configured to release the airflow received through the air conduit and via the air inlet into the immersion fluid.

8 . The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the air inlet is located adjacent to a second connector that is located on a second end of the data cable that is opposite the data cable from the first end.

9 . The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the air conduit extends along an outer surface of the data cable.

10 . The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the air conduit extends through an interior of the data cable.

11 . The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the air conduit extends through the second connector, and the air inlet extends from the second connector and is configured to engage a computing device port to couple to a pump device that is included in a computing device that includes the computing device port and that is configured to generate the airflow.

12 . The IHS of claim 7 , wherein the air inlet is directed towards a surface of an immersion fluid when the second connector engages a computing device port on a computing device that is immersed in the immersion fluid such that the second connector and the air inlet are immersed in the immersion fluid.

13 . The IHS of claim 12 , wherein the air inlet is configured to be moved between a first orientation in which the air inlet is directed towards the surface of the immersion fluid when the second connector engages the computing device port on the computing device that is immersed in the immersion fluid, and a second orientation in which the air inlet is directed parallel to the surface of the immersion fluid when the second connector engages the computing device port on the computing device that is immersed in the immersion fluid.

14 . A method for cable tracing in an immersion cooling system, comprising:

connecting, by a first connector on a first end of a data cable, to a first computing device;

connecting, by a second connector on a second end of the data cable that is opposite the data cable from the first end, to a second computing device that is immersed in an immersion fluid;

receiving, by an air inlet on an air conduit that is included on the data cable, an airflow;

transmitting, by the air conduit along a length of the data cable, the airflow; and

releasing, by an air outlet on the air conduit that is located adjacent to the second connector, the airflow received through the air conduit and via the air inlet into the immersion fluid.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the air inlet is located adjacent to the first connector.

16 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the air conduit extends along an outer surface of the data cable.

17 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the air conduit extends through an interior of the data cable.

18 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the air conduit extends through the first connector, the air inlet extends from the first connector, and the method further includes:

engaging, by the air inlet, a computing device connector to couple to a pump device that is included in a computing device that includes the computing device connector and that is configured to generate the airflow.

19 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the air inlet is directed towards a surface of an immersion fluid when the first connector is connected to the first computing device that is immersed in the immersion fluid.

20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

moving, by the air inlet, from a first orientation in which the air inlet is directed parallel to the surface of the immersion fluid when the first connector is connected to the first computing device, to a second orientation in which the air inlet is directed towards the surface of the immersion fluid when the first connector is connected to the first computing device.