Ventilation device
A ventilation device ( 1 ) is proposed, in particular designed to ventilate a circuit board ( 2 ), preferably in or for a computer, wherein the ventilation device ( 1 ) is designed to produce a first cooling air stream ( 5 ) from a first fan ( 12 ) and to produce a second cooling air stream ( 7 ) from a second fan ( 13 ), wherein the first cooling air stream ( 5 ) and the second cooling air stream ( 7 ) flow through on different sides of an air stream boundary plane (L), preferably parallel to the air stream boundary plane (L), through a common ventilation plane (BL) perpendicular to the air stream boundary plane (L), wherein the directions of flow from the first fan ( 12 ) and the second fan ( 13 ) are crosswise to the air stream boundary plane (L), wherein the ventilation device ( 1 ) preferably is designed to be mountable such that the air stream boundary plane (L) coincides with a central plane of the circuit board.
1. A ventilation device, comprising:
a first fan configured to produce a first cooling air stream having a first direction of flow;
a second fan configured to produce a second cooling air stream having a second direction of flow, the second direction of flow being opposite the first direction of flow, wherein the first cooling air stream flows along a first side of a circuit board and the second cooling air stream flows along a second side of the circuit board that is opposite the first side of the circuit board; and
a housing, the housing having a mounting plate positionable adjacent the circuit board, the first fan attached to a first side of the mounting plate within a first air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate and the second fan attached to a second side of the mounting plate within a second air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate, the second air guidance chamber being separated from the first air guidance chamber so that that first cooling air stream flows around a sub-chamber of the second air guidance chamber in which the second fan is positioned as the first cooling air stream flows toward the circuit board in the first direction of flow.
2. The ventilation device of claim 1 , wherein the first cooling air stream is a suction stream and the second cooling air stream is a discharge stream.
3. The ventilation device of claim 1 , wherein the first cooling air stream is a discharge stream from the first fan and the second cooling air stream is a suction stream.
4. The ventilation device of claim 1 , wherein the first side of the mounting plate is a top side and the second side of the mounting plate is an underside of the mounting plate.
5. The ventilation device of claim 1 , wherein one of the walls that at least partially defines the first air guidance chamber is a separation wall that extends perpendicular to the mounting plate and at an angle to a ventilation side and one of the walls that at least partially defines the second air guidance chamber is a separation wall that extends perpendicular to the mounting plate and at an angle to the ventilation side.
6. The ventilation device of claim 1 , wherein the mounting plate is a segment of the circuit board.
7. The ventilation device of claim 6 , wherein the housing contains a material selected from the group consisting of plastic, circuit board material, aluminum, steel, cardboard, paper and pasteboard.
8. The ventilation device of claim 1 , further comprising a symmetrical connection port configured to accommodate an electric power supply to the first fan and the second fan, wherein the connection port has a common negative pole for grounding and respective positive poles for supplying power to each of the first fan and the second fan arranged symmetrically around the negative pole.
9. A method for ventilating a circuit board comprising:
providing a housing, the housing having a mounting plate positionable adjacent the circuit board, a first fan attached to a first side of the mounting plate within a first air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate and a second fan attached to a second side of the mounting plate within a second air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate, the second air guidance chamber being separated from the first air guidance chamber;
producing a first cooling air stream having a first direction of flow via the first fan so that that a first cooling air stream passes around a sub-chamber of the second air guidance chamber in which the second fan is positioned as the first cooling air stream flows toward the circuit board in the first direction of flow; and
producing a second cooling air stream having a second direction of flow that is opposite the first direction of flow, wherein the first cooling air stream flows along a first side of the circuit board and the second cooling air stream flows along on a second side of the circuit board that is opposite the first side of the circuit board.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first cooling air stream is a suction stream and the second cooling air stream is a discharge stream.
11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first cooling air stream is a discharge stream from the first fan and the second cooling air stream is a suction stream from the second fan.
12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first air guidance chamber is open toward a ventilation side and the second air guidance chamber is open toward the ventilation side.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first side of the mounting plate is a top side of the mounting plate and the second side of the mounting plate is an underside of the mounting plate.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein one of the walls that at least partially defines the first air guidance chamber is a separation wall that extends perpendicular to the mounting plate and at an angle to the ventilation side and one of the walls that at least partially defines the second air guidance chamber is a separation wall that extends perpendicular to the mounting plate and at an angle to the ventilation side.
15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the mounting plate is a segment of the circuit board.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the housing contains a material selected from the group consisting of plastic, circuit board material, aluminum, steel, cardboard, paper and pasteboard.
17. The method of claim 9 , comprising:
providing an electric power supply to the first fan and the second fan via a symmetrical connection port, the connection port having a common negative pole for grounding and respective positive poles for supplying power to each of the first fan and the second fan arranged symmetrically around the negative pole.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the mounting plate is a segment of the circuit board.
19. A ventilation device designed to ventilate a circuit board, comprising:
a first fan configured to produce a first cooling air stream having a first direction of flow; and
a second fan configured to produce a second cooling air stream having a second direction of flow, the second direction of flow being opposite the first direction of flow, wherein the first cooling air stream flows along a first side of the circuit board and the second cooling air stream flows along a second side of the circuit board that is opposite the first side of the circuit board;
a housing, the housing having a mounting plate positionable adjacent the circuit board, the first fan attached to a first side of the mounting plate within a first air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate and the second fan attached to a second side of the mounting plate within a second air guidance chamber at least partially defined by one or more walls connected to the mounting plate, the second air guidance chamber being separated from the first air guidance chamber so that that first cooling air stream flows around a sub-chamber of the second air guidance chamber in which the second fan is positioned as the first cooling air stream flows toward the circuit board in the first direction of flow;
wherein the housing has a ventilation side that defines a ventilation plane, wherein the housing is at least partially open on its ventilation side;
wherein the first cooling air stream is directable through a first opening in the mounting plate and the second cooling air stream is directable through a second opening in the mounting plate; and
wherein the first air guidance chamber is open toward the ventilation side and the second air guidance chamber is open toward the ventilation side.
20. The ventilation device of claim 19 , wherein the mounting plate is a segment of a circuit board.