Method and system of temperature-control for electronic component

• US 8,201,416 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2010
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Original Assignee: Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Inventors: Liao, Tse-Hsine, Kao, Ting-Kuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Jiang, Chen-Wen
• Application Number:
  US12/786,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235014A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 622/592, 236/49.3, 236/94, 236/1.C, 165/104.33, 165/80.4, 361/699, 361/690, 361/698, 361/688, 361/697
• US Class Current: 62/259.2
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1931 to control the temperature of one space
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method and a system of temperature-control for an electronic component are provided, in which a plurality of temperature sensors is disposed in each area of the electronic component. The temperature-control method includes obtaining a plurality of sensed temperature values; looking up a temperature-control table recording the relationship between a temperature-control threshold and a temperature-control operation set for each area; selecting the temperature-control operation corresponding to sensed temperature values greater than the temperature-control thresholds depending on the temperature-control table; and starting the temperature-control operation to make the sensed temperature values being lower than or equal to the temperature-control thresholds.

Claims

1. A method of temperature-control for an electronic component the method comprising:

obtaining a plurality of sensed temperature values by a plurality of temperature sensors which are disposed on the electronic component, wherein each of the temperature sensors has one corresponding temperature-control threshold and the temperature-control thresholds are constants;

comparing each of the sensed temperature values with a corresponding one of the temperature-control thresholds;

looking up a temperature-control table according to at least one of the temperature-control thresholds which is less than the corresponding sensed temperature value, wherein the temperature-control table records a relationship between the temperature-control thresholds and a plurality of temperature-control operations;

selecting one of the temperature-control operations by looking up the temperature-control table; and

starting the temperature-control operation to make each of the sensed temperature values be lower than or equal to the corresponding one of the temperature-control thresholds.

2. The method of temperature-control for an electronic component according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-control operation is one selected from a group consisting of a first fan control, a second fan control, an operating performance control of a central processing unit (CPU), a third fan control, a fourth fan control, and an output current balance control of a power supply.

3. The method of temperature-control for an electronic component according to claim 2, wherein the operating performance control of the CPU is achieved by throttling control of the CPU.

4. The method of temperature-control for an electronic component according to claim 1, wherein the method is integrated into a computer program.

5. The method of temperature-control for an electronic component according to claim 4, wherein the computer program is stored within a computer hard disk.

6. The method of temperature-control for an electronic component according to claim 4, wherein a user interface of the computer program is an icon selection interface.

7. A system of temperature-control for an electronic component, the system comprising:

a plurality of temperature sensors disposed on an electronic component for obtaining sensed temperature values of the electronic component, wherein each of the temperature sensors has one corresponding temperature-control threshold;

a temperature-control table for recording a relationship between the temperature-control thresholds and a plurality of temperature-control operations;

a temperature analysis module for comparing each of the sensed temperature values with a corresponding one of the temperature-control thresholds and selecting one of the temperature-control operations by looking up the temperature-control table according to at least one of the temperature-control thresholds which is less than the corresponding sensed temperature value; and

a temperature-control processing module for starting the selected temperature-control operation to make the sensed temperature values being lower than or equal to the temperature-control thresholds.

8. The system of temperature-control for an electronic component as claimed in claim 7, wherein the temperature sensors are selected from a group consisting of thermal couple sensors, thermal resistors, and IR sensors.

9. The system of temperature-control for an electronic component as claimed in claim 7, wherein the temperature-control operation is one selected from a group consisting of a first fan control, a second fan control, an operating performance control of a CPU, a third fan control, a fourth fan control, and an output current balance control of a power supply.

10. The system of temperature-control for an electronic component as claimed in claim 9, wherein the operating performance control of the CPU is achieved by the throttling control of the CPU.

11. The system of temperature-control for an electronic component as claimed in claim 9, wherein when the sensed temperature values of the same area are different, the output current balance control of the power supply is performed.