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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190303 | Systems and methods to dissipate heat in an information handling system In a particular embodiment, a system to dissipate heat in an information handling system includes a first heat-generating component adapted to process first data and a second heat-generating component adapted to process second data. The system also includes a coolin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180501 | Controlling the temperature of a computer system Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that controls the temperature of a computer system. First, a performance parameter of the computer system is monitored. Next, a future temperature of the computer system is predicted based on the performance... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175757 | Self-cleaning chassis A temperature control system and methods that remove dust or debris from inside an electrical equipment chassis are provided. One or more fans are placed in or near the exterior of the chassis. The fans are operated either in reverse, forward, pulsing, or reverse pu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165727 | Information processing apparatus and cooling control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a heating device provided in the main body, a cooling fan provided in the main body, which cools the heating device, a temperature sensor provided in the main body, which senses a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165726 | Water heater energy savings algorithm for reducing cold water complaints An energy savings water heater is described. The water heater is controlled by an energy savings algorithm that uses one or more of a variable setpoint differential, a variable setback threshold, additional setback thresholds, and an adjustable minimal setpoint to i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160754 | Synthetic air jet cooling system A synthetic air jet cooling system includes a first component. A fan is in fluid communication with the first component. A synthetic air jet is located adjacent the first component. A thermal management engine is coupled to the first component, the fan, and the synt... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155797 | Window fan control system and method of controlling a fan unit In the specification and drawings a window fan control system and a method of controlling a fan unit are described and shown. The window fan control system may comprise an electronic controller, an indoor sensor responsive to at least one characteristic of interior ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150561 | Heat dissipation system for computers A heat dissipation system within a housing of a computer is disclosed. The heat dissipation system includes a heat dissipating fan, a temperature sensor, a rotation speed setting portion, and a performance control portion. The rotation speed setting portion is confi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145363 | Systems and methods for controlling load dynamics in a pumped refrigerant cooling system A pumped refrigerant cooling system for use in a row of equipment racks is configured to contain electronic equipment. The system includes a communication network and a refrigerant distribution unit in fluid communication with a chilled refrigerant supply and a heat... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140196 | Method of controlling temperature of a computer system A computer-implemented method for controlling temperature of a computer system is disclosed. The computer system contains multiple modules and at least one cooling fan. The method contains the steps of collecting thermal data from a first set of modules, calculating... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8121744 | Control system and method for oxygen sensor heater control The present disclosure provides a control system for a heating element used in an oxygen sensor. The control system comprises a rate module that periodically determines a rate of change of current through the heating element and a temperature adjustment module that ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8086359 | Dynamic thermal load balancing A method for improving thermal efficiency in one or more data centers includes measuring a temperature at one or more computing devices having allocated thereto one or more computing workloads and determining whether the measured temperature exceeds a predetermined ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078334 | Unobtrusive system and method for monitoring the physiological condition of a target user of a vehicle An unobtrusive system for monitoring the physiological condition of a target user of a vehicle including a wearable device affixed to the target user. A measurement subsystem is releasably coupled to the wearable device configured to measure a concentration of at le... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078335 | Storage system, storage system control method and storage system control apparatus A storage system includes a housing, a cooling unit cooling the interior of the housing, and a plurality of control units adapted to control the cooling unit. The control units each include a mount state acquisition unit acquiring a mount state of the control unit i... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078333 | Dialysis fluid heating algorithms A dialysis fluid heating system includes a dialysis fluid heater; a dialysis fluid carrying element in operable communication with the dialysis fluid heater to heat a dialysis fluid; and a logic implementer configured to control the heater using (i) a heater input d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8055392 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a deviation value calculation unit which calculates a deviation value from the normal boundary of the relationship between a power index associated with the driving power and the measured rotational speed of the fan, a clogging detectio... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046113 | System and method for cooling a heat-generating device A method for cooling a heat-generating device, comprising setting a reference surface temperature of the heat-generating device, measuring a temperature of a surface of the heat-generating device, measuring a temperature gradient based on temperature measurements of... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041469 | Determining relative spatial information between vehicles A method for determining relative spatial information between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the method including monitoring a communication channel at the first vehicle and receiving a current communication signal sent by the second vehicle on the communicat... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7996117 | MRI system employing superconducting magnet and its maintenance method There is provided an MRI system in which magnetostatic field can be stably generated by keeping the cooling capacity of a cryocooler in a proper range. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus using a superconducting magnet (101) is equipped with a supercondu... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991514 | Processor temperature measurement through median sampling Temperature readings obtained within a computer system from the location of monitored circuit elements may be oversampled at least three times, and a median average of the three parameter readings rather than the arithmetic mean may be used for controlling a device,... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991515 | Computer cooling system with preferential cooling device selection A method for cooling an electronic component includes: providing an electronic component and a cooling device to cool the electronic component; determining the heat generating ability of the electronic component; and driving operation of the cooling device to cool t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7962250 | Control method for cooling an industrial plant A method for controlling the cooling of an industrial plant with at least one electrical component, such as, for example, a transformer, and having at least one cooling element for cooling the electrical components, uses at least one sensor for measuring the tempera... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7890218 | Centralized multi-zone cooling for increased battery efficiency A system for managing battery temperature is described. The system may include a cooling system which may include a fluid. A cabin circulation subsystem may be coupled to the cooling subsystem and may utilize the fluid for cabin cooling. A separate battery circulati... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890219 | Cooling fan with speed maintained during wait period despite decreasing temperature A controller controls fan speed as a function of temperature indications. The controller maintains a constant fan speed despite indications of decreasing temperature at least until a preset wait period has expired since the last fan-speed change. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7869905 | Method and apparatus for using a heater to control the temperature of a power supply in a computer system A system that controls the temperature of a power supply in a computer system is presented. A state of the computer system is monitored. Next a signal is generated in response to the state of the computer system. The signal is then used to control the temperature of... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856292 | System and method for lowering a temperature of liquid exiting a heat exchanger in a vapor compression system A pull-down control process for a chiller system is provided. The pull-down control process can override the capacity control process for the chiller system to pull-down the leaving chilled liquid temperature faster than the capacity control process. The pull-down c... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7818095 | Water heater monitor/diagnostic display apparatus A water heater is provided with monitor/diagnostic display apparatus that selectively provides a user with visual or other type of indicia of the remaining hot water availability of, the recovery time for, and the overall efficiency of the water heater. The apparatu... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809478 | System and method for managing portable information handling system cooling Information handling system thermal parameters applied by a thermal manager to manage cooling are adjusted based on whether or not a thermal barrier is coupled to the information handling system. The presence of a thermal barrier allows higher operating temperatures... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7747358 | Building equipment component control with automatic feature detection A method of accommodating an element in a building equipment component. The presence of the element may be detected, and whether the element is required may be determined. The building equipment component may be operated if the element is present and required, or if... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742844 | Information handling system including cooling devices and methods of use thereof An information handling system can include cooling devices that are organized into zones. A method of using an information handling system can include setting a cooling level for each cooling device. Each zone can be associated with thermal data or regions within th... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7715952 | Temperature setting of thermal processing plate using zernike coefficients In the present invention, a thermal plate is divided into a plurality of thermal plate regions, and a temperature is settable for each of the thermal plate regions. A temperature correction value for adjusting the temperature within the thermal plate is settable for... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706929 | Preheating control system of information processing device and control method thereof A preheating control system of an information processing device and a control method thereof are described. The system includes a temperature sensing module, a first controller, a heating module, and a second controller. After receiving a power ON signal, the first ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698023 | Apparatus and method for thermal stabilization of PCB-mounted electronic components within an enclosed housing An apparatus comprises a matrix of thermoelectric devices for applying thermal gradients across an electronic component mounted in a PCB substrate within an enclosed housing. A matrix of thermosensitive devices are placed around the perimeter of the electronic compo... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7676302 | System and method of operating a cooling fan A computer program product stored in a computing device has a processor and a communication interface to determine cooling specifications of a remote housing. The computer program product includes a machine-readable storage medium and machine-readable program code, ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7657347 | Temperature-based monitoring method and system for determining first and second fluid flow rates through a heat exchanger Monitoring method and system are provided for dynamically determining flow rate of a first fluid and a second fluid through a heat exchanger. The method includes: pre-characterizing the heat exchanger to generate pre-characterized correlation data correlating effect... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630795 | Method and air-cooling unit with dynamic airflow and heat removal adjustability Method and air-cooling unit are provided for dynamically adjusting airflow rate through and heat removal rate of the air-cooling unit to facilitate cooling of one or more electronics racks of a data center. The air-cooling unit includes a housing, an air-moving devi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7617019 | Ventilation device The invention relates to a ventilation device for artificially ventilating component groups mounted on the support thereof. The inventive ventilation device comprises at least a fan group connected to a power supply unit by means of connecting wires, and a control u... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617020 | Method for controlling system to work at appropriate temperature A method for controlling a system to work at an appropriate temperature provides a control manner allowing not only a temperature factor but also a time factor to be considered when a system is heated. When a heated value of the system reaches a certain preset value... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7606640 | Cooling apparatus and projection type display device A cooling apparatus able to rotate cooling fans with required lowest limit speeds, and able to suppress power consumption and generated noise includes a cooling unit for cooling an object to be cooled by a cooling amount in accordance with a level of a supplied driv... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599761 | Cooling assist module Systems associated with moving heat out of a computer are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a large heat exchanger, large, quiet, automatically redundant fans, automatically redundant pumps, and a leak containment apparatus. The example system may ... | 10/06/2009 |
