IP Library Granted Patent US 9,298,229
Granted Patent B2
US 9,298,229 · App. 14/353,905 · Granted Mar 29, 2016

Flow-guiding hood for guiding a flow of air

Inventors: Lorenz Schelshorn (Augsburg, DE); Friedrich Köhler (Augsburg, DE)
Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
G06F1/20H05K7/20145H05K7/20727
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Patent No.
US 9,298,229
App. No.
14/353,905
Granted
Mar 29, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flow-guiding hood that guides a flow of air in a computer or an electronic device includes a plurality of individual parts which includes a first flow-guiding element made of a substantially planar first material that channels the flow and at least one second flow-guiding element made of a different, second material and likewise channels the flow, wherein the second flow-guiding element rests on and/or is attached to the first flow-guiding element.

Claims (20)

1. A flow-guiding hood that guides a flow of air in a computer or an electronic device comprising a plurality of individual parts which comprises:

a first flow-guiding element made of a substantially planar first material, shaped such that the first flow-guiding element is composed of two-dimensional regions, each of which are flat and have straight edges, and the first flow-guiding element that channels the flow by providing a main flow channel that causes a rough, approximate flow pattern, and

at least one second flow-guiding element made of foamed plastics material as a different, second material and likewise channels the flow,

wherein the second flow-guiding element rests on and/or is attached to the first flow-guiding element, and the second flow-guiding element finely controls the flow pattern.

2. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the second flow-guiding element is cut to size, punched or otherwise shaped such that it is defined predominantly by flat faces.

3. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the second flow-guiding element has one or more flat faces adhesively attached over a whole area thereof, to the first flow-guiding element.

4. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the planar material of the first flow-guiding element is foldable, bendable or deformable to form a plurality of flat segments.

5. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the planar material of the first flow-guiding element is a plastics sheet or, a sheet metal or cardboard.

6. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the first flow-guiding element is a punched shaped part.

7. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the first flow-guiding element is divided into a plurality of flat segments.

8. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 7 , wherein the flat segments of the first flow-guiding element are differently oriented and are delimited from each other by bends, folds, perforations, punchings or by straight edges.

9. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein the first flow-guiding element is shaped so that on a first surface it defines a main flow channel, and all of one or more second flow-guiding elements are attached on a same face of the planar first material of the main channel.

10. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein one or more second flow-guiding elements are arranged on a same face of the first planar material of the main channel such that they locally constrict the main flow channel into a plurality of part-flow channels.

11. An electronic device comprising the flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 .

12. A computer comprising the flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 .

13. The flow-guiding hood according to claim 1 , wherein one or more second flow-guiding elements are arranged on a same face of the first planar material of the main channel such that they locally divide the main flow channel into a plurality of part-flow channels.

14. A flow-guiding hood that guides a flow of air in a computer or an electronic device comprising a plurality of individual parts which comprises:

a first flow-guiding element made of a substantially planar first material, shaped such that the first flow-guiding element is composed of two-dimensional regions, each of which are flat and have straight edges, and the first flow-guiding element that channels the flow by providing a main flow channel that causes a rough, approximate flow pattern, and

at least one second flow-guiding element made of foamed plastics material as a different, second material and likewise channels the flow,

wherein the second flow-guiding element rests on and/or is attached to the first flow-guiding element, and the second flow-guiding element finely controls the flow pattern, and both the first flow-guiding element and the at least one second flow-guiding element actively channel the flow pattern.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Feb 23, 2017
From: FUJITSU TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 041353/0914 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 6, 2016
From: SCHELSHORN, LORENZ; KÖHLER, FRIEDRICH
To: FUJITSU TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
Reel/Frame 037420/0655 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2011 117 223 · Oct 28, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
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