公开(公告)号：US20150338281A1

公开(公告)日：2015-11-26

申请号：US14284337

申请日：2014-05-21

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Peter George Ross ,  Adolfo Bravo Ferreira ,  Richard Chadwick Towner

IPC: G01K3/14

CPC classification number: G01K3/14 ,  G05D23/1917 ,  G06F11/301 ,  G06F11/3058 ,  G06F11/3089 ,  G06F11/3452 ,  H05K7/20836

Abstract: A virtual temperature monitoring system in a data center communicates with servers mounted in racks to receive internal temperature data generated by internal temperature sensors of the servers. The system derives a virtual sensor measurement of external temperatures external to the server, including a portion of a cold aisle that extends proximate to a rack in which the server is mounted, based upon a relationship between the received internal temperature sensors and the external environment. Sensor data from other sensors can be received via a building management system, and building management signals to the building management system can be generated based at least partially on the virtual sensor data. The virtual sensor data can be used to generate a graphical representation of the servers that highlights relative thermal characteristics of the servers based on the virtual external sensor measurements, including heat indices, excursions beyond thresholds, historical excursion histories, etc.

Abstract translation: 数据中心中的虚拟温度监控系统与安装在机架中的服务器通信，以接收由服务器的内部温度传感器生成的内部温度数据。 该系统基于所接收的内部温度传感器和外部环境之间的关系，导出对服务器外部的外部温度的虚拟传感器测量，包括靠近服务器安装的机架延伸的冷通道的一部分。 可以经由建筑物管理系统接收来自其他传感器的传感器数据，并且至少部分地基于虚拟传感器数据来生成对楼宇管理系统的建筑物管理信号。 虚拟传感器数据可用于生成基于虚拟外部传感器测量（包括热指数，超出阈值偏移，历史偏移历史等）突出显示服务器相对热特性的服务器的图形表示。

公开(公告)号：US20220292044A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17804451

申请日：2022-05-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Darin Lee Frink ,  Peter George Ross

IPC: G06F13/40 ,  G06F1/18 ,  G11B33/12 ,  G11B33/14 ,  G06F1/20 ,  H05K7/20 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F1/3287 ,  H05K7/14

Abstract: A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage modules coupled to the rack, and one or more data control modules coupled to the rack. The data storage modules may include a chassis, two or more backplanes coupled to the chassis, and one or more mass storage devices (for example, hard disk drives) coupled to the backplanes. The data control modules may access the mass storage devices in the data storage modules.

公开(公告)号：US11221154B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-11

申请号：US16147368

申请日：2018-09-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Robert David Wilding ,  Peter George Ross ,  Geri-Ann Quinlivan ,  Alan Donald Gillooly ,  Sean Patrick Abbott

IPC: F24F7/02 ,  F24F7/10 ,  E04B7/18 ,  H05K7/20

Abstract: A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.

公开(公告)号：US11133705B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16145098

申请日：2018-09-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Peter George Ross

IPC: G05B19/05 ,  H02J13/00 ,  H02J1/00

Abstract: An internal cooling grid is mounted internal to a facility, such as a data center, and includes a plurality of fluid transport elements arranged in a grid pattern with nodes at intersections of the grid pattern. Supply and return manifolds included in the nodes receive (and return) cooling fluid from/to more than two transport elements. Thus, a failure of one or more transport elements does not prevent a node from being supplied cooling fluid from at least a first transport element and a second transport element. In some embodiments, the cooling grid may be operated at a pressure less than one atmosphere, such that any leaks that occur cause air to leak into the cooling grid instead of cooling fluid leaking out of the cooling grid.

公开(公告)号：US10803002B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16265802

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Darin Lee Frink ,  Peter George Ross

IPC: H05K7/20 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F1/18 ,  G11B33/12 ,  G11B33/14 ,  G06F1/20 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F1/3287 ,  H05K7/14

Abstract: A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage modules coupled to the rack, and one or more data control modules coupled to the rack. The data storage modules may include a chassis, two or more backplanes coupled to the chassis, and one or more mass storage devices (for example, hard disk drives) coupled to the backplanes. The data control modules may access the mass storage devices in the data storage modules.

公开(公告)号：US20200093022A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16692196

申请日：2019-11-22

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Peter George Ross ,  Darin Lee Frink

IPC: H05K7/14 ,  G06F1/18

Abstract: A system for performing computing operations includes a rack, one or more shelves coupled to the rack, and two or more computing modules. Each computing module may include a chassis, one or more circuit board assemblies in a primarily vertical orientation, and one or more hard disk drives in a primarily vertical orientation. The circuit board assemblies and the hard disk drives are coupled to the chassis of the computing module.

公开(公告)号：US10476298B1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-12

申请号：US14843895

申请日：2015-09-02

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Faran Harold Kaplan ,  Peter George Ross

IPC: H02J9/06

Abstract: An elevated automatic transfer switch (ATS) cabinet provides power support redundancy to a set of electrical loads in one or more rack computer systems. The cabinet includes multiple-phase power feed input receptacles which each receive a multiple-phase power feed and distribute the separate phases of the power feed to separate ATS modules installed in the cabinet. Outputs from separate ATS modules can be distributed, via separate cabinet output receptacles, to electrical loads in one or more rack computer systems. Backup ATS modules can be installed in parallel with ATS modules, so that ATS modules can be replaced while maintaining power support. Particular bypass circuits in the cabinet can be selectively closed to bypass selected ATS modules with selected power feeds, based on manual interaction with one or more elements of the bypass circuit, including manual insertion of a conductive element into a slot element of the bypass circuit.

公开(公告)号：US10420249B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US16213853

申请日：2018-12-07

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Peter George Ross ,  Timothy Logan Sadler

IPC: H05K7/14 ,  E04H5/00 ,  H05K7/20

Abstract: Deployable barriers are reversibly deployed in a data center hall to partition the data center. The hall is partitioned into an operational area, where rack computer systems are installed, a non-operational area, and a staging area where support infrastructure is at least partially installed. A barrier can be collapsed to incorporate the staging area into the operational area, thereby expanding the operational area, when rack computer systems are to be installed in the staging area. A barrier deployed in the non-operational area establishes another staging area. A barrier includes a deployment mechanism which extends through a space in the data center to enable a partition to be extended to partition the hall. The barrier can be mounted and deployed on support infrastructure, so that the deployed barrier and a side portion of the support infrastructure collectively partition the hall.

公开(公告)号：US10368466B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US14876597

申请日：2015-10-06

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Darin Lee Frink ,  Felipe Enrique Ortega Gutierrez ,  Christopher Strickland Beall ,  Peter George Ross

IPC: H05K7/20

Abstract: A cooling canister includes a canister body and a sealing surface that seals with a subset of servers mounted in a rack. A cooling canister facilitates airflow isolation between subsets of servers mounted in a rack and is configured to couple with one or more fans that direct airflow through the subset of servers coupled with the cooling canister. In some embodiments, a cooling canister includes louvers configured to restrict airflow through empty rack slots to which the cooling canister is coupled.

公开(公告)号：US10344744B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15925661

申请日：2018-03-19

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Peter George Ross

IPC: F01K3/18 ,  H05K7/20 ,  F03G7/06 ,  G06F1/20 ,  H02K7/00 ,  H02K7/18 ,  G06F1/26

Abstract: A data center includes computing devices, an air handling system, a heat engine, and a generator. Air moved by the air handling system flows across heat-producing components in the computing devices in the data center. Heat from air that has flowed over the heat-producing components heats a hot section of the heat engine. The heat engine generates mechanical work based on a temperature differential between a hot section of the heat engine and a cold section of the heat engine. The generator generates electricity from the mechanical work generated by the heat engine.