FAN SPEED CONTROL SYSTEM AND FAN SPEED READING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120136502A1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: LIU, Gui-Ming
• Application Number:
  US13/031,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20120136502A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/300
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/166 using fans
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 27/004 by varying driving speed
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 30/70 Efficient control or regulation technologies, e.g. for control of refrigerant flow, motor or heating

Abstract

A fan speed control system includes a rack and a plurality of servers disposed on the rack. The fan speed control system further includes the management module and the fan module. The management module is coupled to the servers, and the fan module is coupled to the management module for dissipating the heat from the servers. The fan module contains the fan, the speed control module, and the main control module. The speed control module is coupled to the fans. The main control module has a primary communication port. The main module which enters the interrupt sequence receives the control signals sent from the management module through the primary communication port when any one of the main modules enters the interrupt sequence. The control signal is delivered to the speed control module for reading the fan speed.

Claims

1. A fan speed control system, having a rack and a plurality of servers disposed on the rack, wherein the fan speed control system further comprises:

a management module coupled to the servers; and

a plurality of fan module disposed on the rack and coupled to the management module for dissipating heat from the servers, wherein each of the fan modules further comprises;

a plurality of fans;

a speed control module coupled to each of the fans; and

at least one main control module having a primary communication port, wherein, when any one of the main control modules enters an interrupt sequence, the main control module which enters the interrupt sequence receives a control signal sent from the management module through the primary communication port, and delivers the control signal to the speed control module for reading a rotation speed value of each of the fans.

2. The fan speed control system of claim 1, wherein the speed control module returns the rotation speed value of each of the fans to the management module, and the management module adjusts an actual rotation speed value of each of the fans according to a temperature value of the servers and the rotation speed value.

3. The fan speed control system of claim 1, wherein the fan module further comprises a standby control module which has a standby communication port, wherein, when the main control module cannot receive the control signal sent from the management module, the standby control module receives the control signal sent from the management module through the standby communication port, and delivers the control signal to the speed control module.

4. The fan speed control system of claim 3, wherein, when the server is booted, the main control module initializes the speed control module, and after a first predetermined time period, the standby control module initializes the speed control module.

5. The fan speed control system of claim 3, wherein the main control module without receiving the control signal sent from the management module is meaning that the main control module does not respond within a second preset time period after the management module sends the control signal to the main control module.

6. The fan speed control system of claim 1, wherein each of the servers has a server baseboard management controller, and the management module controls the server baseboard management controller to make it read a temperature value of the server.

7. A fan rotation speed reading method of a fan speed control system, for reading a fan rotation speed value, comprising:

initializing at least one speed control module;

detecting whether a main control module enters an interrupt sequence when the initialization of the speed control module is completed; and

receiving a control signal sent from the management module by the main control module which enters the interrupt sequence through a primary communication port when the main control module enters the interrupt sequence, and delivering the control signal to the speed control module for reading the fan rotation speed value.

8. The fan rotation speed reading method of claim 7, further comprising continuing to detect whether a fan module identification code received by the main control module which enters the interrupt sequence is correct when the main control module enters the interrupt sequence.

9. The fan rotation speed reading method of claim 7, further comprising delivering the read fan rotation speed value to a server baseboard management controller.

10. The fan rotation speed reading method of claim 9, further comprising clearing data stored in a receiving buffer area of the main control module after delivering the fan rotation speed value to the server baseboard management controller.