Rotatable cold plate assembly for cooling pluggable modules
摘要
說明書
One approach to enabling liquid cooling for pluggable modules is to have the cold plate be a permanent part of the module together with liquid couplings that enable the cold plate to be coupled to or decoupled from a liquid cooling loop of the system when the pluggable module is installed or removed. However, if the liquid couplings are manual liquid couplings, the user would have to manually couple and decouple the liquid lines each time the module it is added to or removed from the system, which is not user friendly. If the liquid couplings are blind-mate liquid connectors which can automatically couple with the liquid cooling loop inside the computing device as the module is inserted into the bay, then this would solve some of the problems noted above, since the blind-mate liquid connectors do allow the module to be easily plugged and unplugged. However, blind-mate liquid connectors may suffer from other problems. For example, they pose a risk for leaking liquid into the computing system, which could damage components.
