Directional grate access floor panel
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1. An apparatus for facilitating air cooling of an IT rack of a data center, the apparatus residing within a raised floor of the data center wherein cooling air is conveyed from an under floor cooling air plenum, the apparatus comprising:
- at least one access floor panel for disposition external to the IT rack, the at least one access floor panel includes a frame supporting a plurality of spaced apart vanes for directing an air flow towards the IT rack, and the vanes positioned and set at a fixed angle which is between about 20 to 35 degrees from a plane which is perpendicular to the raised floor of the data center anda support housed within the frame and connected to the frame andthe support further supporting the plurality of spaced apart fixed vanes.
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Abstract
A grate access floor panel comprising a support frame and a plurality of vanes supported by the frame, each of the plurality of vanes having an upstream end and a downstream end with respect to a direction of airflow across the plurality of vanes and faces that extend between the upstream and downstream ends, wherein at least some of the vanes have openings that extend through the faces thereof and have angled tips.
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1. An apparatus for facilitating air cooling of an IT rack of a data center, the apparatus residing within a raised floor of the data center wherein cooling air is conveyed from an under floor cooling air plenum, the apparatus comprising:
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at least one access floor panel for disposition external to the IT rack, the at least one access floor panel includes a frame supporting a plurality of spaced apart vanes for directing an air flow towards the IT rack, and the vanes positioned and set at a fixed angle which is between about 20 to 35 degrees from a plane which is perpendicular to the raised floor of the data center and a support housed within the frame and connected to the frame and the support further supporting the plurality of spaced apart fixed vanes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A data center comprising:
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a sub floor; a raised floor constructed above the sub floor so as to define a plenum between the sub floor and the raised floor; the raised floor comprising a plurality of access floor panels, at least one access floor panel comprising a panel for disposition external to an IT rack; the at least one access floor panel including a frame supporting a plurality of spaced apart vanes for directing an air flow towards the IT rack and the vanes positioned at a set angle which is fixed between about 20 to 35 degrees from a plane which is perpendicular to the raised floor of the data center and a support housed within the frame and connected to the frame and the support further supporting the plurality of spaced apart fixed vanes. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A method of facilitating air cooling of an IT rack of a data center, the method comprising the steps of:
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supplying a cooling air to the IT rack, wherein the supplied air flows from an under floor cooling air plenum forced between a sub floor and a raised floor; and directing the supplied cooling air to the IT rack at a set angle which is fixed between about 20 to 35 degrees from a plane which is perpendicular to the raised floor of the data center. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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