ELECTRIC RADIATOR USING CALCULATING PROCESSORS AS A HEAT SOURCE

• US 20130003294A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qarnot Computing
• Original Assignee: Qarnot Computing
• Inventors: Benoit, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 9,151,515 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.48
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 2200/29 Electrical devices, e.g. computers, servers
• CPC Class Codes: F24H 3/062 using electric energy supply; the heating medium being the resistive element F24H3/08, F24H3/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 7/00 Elements not covered by group F28F1/00, F28F3/00 or F28F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/201 Cooling arrangements using cooling fluid
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20 Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20263 Heat dissipaters releasing heat from coolant
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20272 Accessories for moving fluid, for expanding fluid, for connecting fluid conduits, for distributing fluid, for removing gas or for preventing leakage, e.g. pumps, tanks or manifolds

Abstract

An electric radiator is provided using calculating processors as a heat source and includes a heating body where the heat transfer between the heat source and the ambient air takes place; a number of processors distributed over a number of printed circuit boards forming the heat source of the radiator and a power resource carrying out calculations by external computer systems; a man-machine interface enabling the control of the calculating and calorific power supplied by the radiator; a power source stabilised for the different electrical components; and a network interface for connecting the radiator to the external networks.

Claims

1. A single electric radiator, comprising:

an internal heat source and a heating body for performing heat transfer between the heat source of the electric radiator and ambient air;

the heat source is formed by at least one processing circuit whereon at least one computing processor is provided, the latter being connected to a dissipating block for removing heat in the heating body;

and in that it comprises a control interface for controlling the amount of energy dissipated by the heat source, a power supply and a communication interface enabling an external computer system to access said at least one processor as a computing resource.

2. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that a naturally flowing heat transfer fluid travels in the heating body.

3. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that a heat transfer fluid travels in the heating body, in a forced way by an electric pump integrated to the radiator.

4. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that a heat transfer fluid from a circuit external to the radiator travels in the heating body.

5. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that the control interface is configured so as to transmit to the external computer system a signal representing the computing resource available in the radiator, this availability depending on a setpoint from a user.

6. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least one processing circuit is connected to external peripherals and forms a micro-computer, a multimedia box, a video game console or an extension of such a system.

7. The radiator according to claim 1, characterised in that the processing circuit is provided outside the heating body, a part of the dissipating block directly contacting the heat transfer fluid through a wall of the heating body.

8. A heating system, comprising:

a plurality of single remote electric radiators, each radiator comprising an internal heat source and a heating body for performing heat transfer between the heat source of the electric radiator and ambient air, the heat source is formed by at least one processing circuit whereon at least one computing processor is provided, the latter being connected to a dissipating block to remove heat in the heating body; and

in that it comprises a control interface for controlling the amount of energy dissipated by the heat source, a power supply and a communication interface enabling an external computer system to access said at least one processor as a computing resource; and

at least one remote server connected to all the single electric radiators via an Internet type communication network so as to use the computing resource available in every single electric radiator.