CN102656960B - Equipment cabinets - Google Patents

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CN102656960B
CN102656960B CN201080041809.9A CN201080041809A CN102656960B CN 102656960 B CN102656960 B CN 102656960B CN 201080041809 A CN201080041809 A CN 201080041809A CN 102656960 B CN102656960 B CN 102656960B
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05KPRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/20Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
    • H05K7/20536Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating for racks or cabinets of standardised dimensions, e.g. electronic racks for aircraft or telecommunication equipment
    • H05K7/20554Forced ventilation of a gaseous coolant
    • H05K7/2059Forced ventilation of a gaseous coolant within rooms for removing heat from cabinets, e.g. by air conditioning device
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01DSEPARATION
    • B01D46/00Filters or filtering processes specially modified for separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours
    • B01D46/28Particle separators, e.g. dust precipitators, using filter brushes
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24FAIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING
    • F24F7/00Ventilation
    • F24F7/04Ventilation with ducting systems, e.g. by double walls; with natural circulation
    • F24F7/06Ventilation with ducting systems, e.g. by double walls; with natural circulation with forced air circulation, e.g. by fan positioning of a ventilator in or against a conduit
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05KPRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/20Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
    • H05K7/20009Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating using a gaseous coolant in electronic enclosures
    • H05K7/20136Forced ventilation, e.g. by fans
    • H05K7/20154Heat dissipaters coupled to components
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05KPRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/20Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
    • H05K7/20009Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating using a gaseous coolant in electronic enclosures
    • H05K7/20136Forced ventilation, e.g. by fans
    • H05K7/20181Filters; Louvers

Abstract

A kind of equipment cabinets (100) with air cooling system, comprising: air intake (101), extends through the outer wall (102) of described cabinet; Air intake filter (103), be arranged in formed described cabinet described outer wall relative the first and second side panels (104,105) between; And fan (106), be arranged as attract air through described filter and the internal capacity (107) entering described cabinet to cool the equipment (108) being contained in this.

Description

Equipment cabinets
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of equipment cabinets, it has the air cooling system for apparatus cools being arranged in cabinet inside volume.
Background technology
Normally work and safety in order to ensure electronic equipment, especially those electronic equipments be arranged in outdoor environment, this equipment is installed in cabinet usually.This cabinet is used in telecommunications application usually, such as mobile communication base station and switching equipment, and also in other outdoor utility, such as electronic equipment needs to apply with other street furnitures at the traffic signalization case of outside work.The design of this equipment cabinets needs to adapt to the environment that this equipment is installed.
Because electronic equipment operationally inevitably produces heat, a kind of approach is therefore needed this heat to be discharged from cabinet.This has come with cooling device through cabinet by controlling air stream usually.Can flow directly in cabinet by making air stream and flow out cabinet and flow through cooling around this equipment, also indirectly can carry out, such as, pass through heat exchanger.Can also conditioner be used, but this significantly increases the volume of equipment cabinets and total cost and operating cost, therefore avoid when avoiding as far as possible.
GB2333185 discloses polytype base station apparatus, and wherein mobile telephone equipment is arranged in the cabinet of street corner building article form.Enter cabinet by ordering about air to make it pass inlet grid and make hot-air pass outlet cells or other openings and flow out the external realization cooling of cabinet.
GB2354066 discloses a kind of cabinet with heat-sink unit, and it comprises the support for installing electronic equipment, also comprises fan unit, arrives exhaust chamber discharge for ordering about air from plenum chamber through this equipment.Machine box door provides filter, and air is driven in cabinet by this filter.
The focus of said system is concentrated and is that pressure Air flow is carried out in equipment cabinets inside.The particular problem relevant to existing system is the air bells laid of the particulate matter entering cabinet, such as earth and dust, and these particulate matters can affect the operation of internal unit.Therefore generally use air cleaner, this filter is arranged to extract air bells laid particulate matter at least partially before air bells laid particulate matter arrives the equipment of cabinet inside.But use air cleaner can inevitably occur potential blockage problem, the air stream caused through cabinet reduces by this problem, consequently reduce the working temperature rising of cooling effectiveness, equipment.In extreme situations, plugged sereen will cause equipment to exceed safe working temperature, and this will cause this equipment automatically to close to prevent any damage or fault.This can cause loss of service, and needs calling engineer to keep in repair this equipment and to change arbitrary plugged sereen.Therefore, in order to reduce equipment fault or inefficacy, can under wider condition of work scope, keep cooling effectiveness to be very important as far as possible for a long time, as far as possible.
US 2001/0052412 A1 solves the problem of plugged filter by using air-air heat exchanger, the internal capacity that this air-air heat exchanger makes equipment install and external environment condition isolated.Do not provide the extreme case of enough cooling at heat exchanger under, the second cooling system is started working, and to impel air directly through internal container, this second cooling system has filter on air intake, enters to prevent Air settlement matter.But this solution partly can only solve the problem of blocking, because still need plugged sereen the most at last.In addition, the cooling that heat exchanger can provide is subject to the restriction of the required temperature difference.
WO 2009/090405 discloses a kind of air cleaner, comprise feed tube, this feed tube is formed in the passage extended between the entrance and exit of air cleaner, and comprise the seta (bristle) extended at least partially crossing passage from carrier wall, to remove from through in the air of this feed tube the particle carried secretly.Such filter combines seta, substitutes traditional foam filter element with seta, can reduce and eliminate the blocking of filter in some cases.This heat and be particularly useful in environment dusty, air bells laid particle makes air stream normally work in such a case.But, in order to make filter work expeditiously, needing larger entrance section to amass, to reduce the speed of intake air stream, reaching the level that entrained particles is captured by the seta of filter.Be in the application of the form of street furniture in equipment cabinets, do not select the external filter unit of large volume, because the occupy-place size of cabinet can be very restricted, such as, be subject to the restriction of local planning requirement.
Another problem of street corner Application in Building is intentional destruction; it causes the conflict of two aspects below: require on the one hand to guarantee that equipment safe enough in cabinet is to prevent damaged (burst accident or other), and guarantee that the cooling-air of q.s is through cabinet on the other hand.The target that can become trasher for the larger external grid improving air stream on this cabinet, therefore the outside looks of cabinet need inconspicuous as much as possible.
In order to solve the subject matter of cooling, a solution increases the volume entering the air stream of cabinet.But, increase the speed entering the air stream of cabinet and can cause even more air bells laid particulate matter, thus reduce the life-span of any inlet filter.Although be effective with regard to short-term, this solution inevitably causes needs to change filter more continually.
Summary of the invention
Therefore the object of the invention is to solve one or more the problems referred to above.
According to a first aspect of the invention, a kind of equipment cabinets with air cooling system is provided, comprises:
Air intake, extends through the outer wall of described cabinet;
Air intake filter, be arranged in formed described cabinet described outer wall the first and second relative side panels between;
Fan, is arranged as and attracts air through described filter and the internal capacity entering described cabinet is contained in this equipment with cooling.
Described air intake filter preferably includes one or more panel, and described panel has the seta array extended from one or both sides.The type of this panel can be such as type disclosed in WO 2009/090405, comprises plug-in unit, this plug-in unit is applied with one deck filtering material.
By described first and second side panels lower edge between gap the air intake entering cabinet is provided.In this form, air intake is manufactured into least noticeable, and even under normal observation, also cannot see this entrance.Therefore the entrance of this form is conducive to reducing the risk causing damage by deliberately destroying.
Equipment cabinets can comprise the pipeline limiting inlet air flow path, and described pipeline is between the outlet side of described air intake filter and the bottom of the described internal capacity of described cabinet.Because filter extends through the outer wall of cabinet, therefore it is conducive to guiding air to wander about as a refugee the backward bottom down to cabinet of opened filter, thus the cooling effect of the equipment held in cabinet is maximized because the heat produced by equipment the warm air that heats trend towards rising and order about cold air through internal capacity.
Equipment cabinets can comprise the relative outer wall extending through described cabinet first and second described in air intake and described air intake filter.This is conducive to the cross-sectional area propagating through filter, makes the additional space shared by filter minimize simultaneously.
When using two air intake filters on relative outer wall, pipeline can form air flow path between each outlet side of air intake filter and the bottom of the internal capacity of cabinet, to guarantee that cooling-air arrives the bottom of the internal capacity of cabinet, to improve cooling effectiveness.
In order to improve cooling effectiveness further, especially when attracting a fan fails in air passes through inlet filter, pipeline can be isolated thing and be divided into two parts, air flow from described first and second air intake filters is become Part I and Part II by described spacer, this Part I extends between the described outlet side and the bottom of described internal capacity of described first filter, and this Part II extends between the described outlet side and the bottom of described internal capacity of described second filter.If a fan fails, spacer can guarantee that air is still attracted the bottom of inwardly volume, instead of flows out cabinet by another filter, can this thing happens when not using this spacer.
The pipeline extended between the outlet and the bottom of internal capacity of each filter advantageously can extend through the cabinet outer wall between the first and second filters, what make occupied by pipeline thus is space-minimized, and the available space for equipment in cabinet is maximized.
Accompanying drawing explanation
By reference to accompanying drawing and example, the present invention is described now:
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram in the cross section through example devices cabinet;
Fig. 2 a is the schematic diagram of the longitudinal cross-section through another optional example devices cabinet; And
Fig. 2 b is the schematic diagram of the planar cross-sectional through another optional example devices cabinet.
Embodiment
Fig. 1 shows example devices cabinet 100 according to an embodiment of the invention.Cabinet 100 comprises air cooling system, this system comprises the air intake 101 of the outer wall 102 extending through cabinet 100, and this air intake 101 leads to the inlet filter 103 between the one 104 and the 2 105 side panel of relative formation cabinet 100 outer wall 102.Fan 106 is arranged as and attracts air through filter 103 and the internal capacity 107 entering cabinet 100 is contained in this equipment 108 with cooling.
The direction of the air stream entering, pass and discharge cabinet 100 is shown with arrow 110,111,112,113,114 and 115 in FIG.Air is first by flowing into air intake 101 and enter cabinet (arrow 110), and the form of this air intake 101 is the gap between the lower edge 116,117 of the first and second side panels 104,105.Aperture plate 118 strides across this gap and is inhaled into filter 103 to stop larger object (such as leaf and rubbish) and protects filter 103 to avoid unexpected or deliberate damage.Air stream along sidewall 102 between side panel 104,105 upwards (arrow 111) through filter 103.The granular materials be inhaled into through entrance 101 is captured by filter 103.The speed of air stream is preferably enough low, to make this granular materials finally drop on outside air intake instead of be captured in the filter, thus reduces needs that are clean and that change.
Aperture plate 118 is preferably firm woven wire, and is preferably the orientation relative to vertical direction about 45 degree, is limited by sidewall 104,105.Small gap between the lower edge 116 of the first side wall 104 and aperture plate can reduce the visibility of aperture plate in normal visual field.
Air is attracted through fan 106 and then passes downwardly through the bottom that the pipeline 119 extended between the outlet 129 of filter 103 and the bottom of internal capacity 107 is imported into (arrow 112) cabinet.Then air flows (arrow 113) along the bottom 130 of cabinet, preferably, is positioned under the permeable bottom 120 of virtual air before entering internal capacity 107 (arrow 114) through bottom 120.Through the equipment 108 be contained in internal capacity 107 and around after, the heat produced by equipment 108 heats by air, and enter the overhead 121 of cabinet 100, and discharge cabinet 100 (arrow 115) by exhaust outlet 122, this exhaust outlet 122 is placed along the edge of the top layer 123 of cabinet 100 valuably.
The form of filter 103 is plug-in unit, and this plug-in unit has the seta array be provided on two sides.Alternatively, the form of filter 103 is more than one plug-in unit, and the one or both sides of each plug-in unit provide seta.Preferably, seta is provided by pedaline layer of charcoal (layer of artificial turf), which provide and allow air to flow through the characteristic of simultaneously capturing larger particles, otherwise these larger particles will enter and remain in internal capacity 107.The granular materials of very little, such as micron or submicron-scale can pass filter 103, but equipment 108 unlikely can be caused to go wrong, because this material generally can pass cabinet 100 always.But in some alternate embodiments, the filter of fine dimension can be provided to capture this less particle.
Fig. 2 a and 2b show schematically show the another exemplary embodiment according to equipment cabinets 200 of the present invention with vertical and horizontal schematic cross-section respectively.Fig. 2 b represents the floor map in the cross section along the A-A ' in Fig. 2 a.
As shown in Figure 2 a, equipment cabinets 200 has the first air intake 201a and the second air intake 201b, lead to first and second air intake filter 203a, 203b respectively, first and second air intake filter 203a, 203b extend through relative sidewall 202a, 202b of cabinet 200, and each filter 203a, 203b are between first and second side panels of relative outer wall 202a, 202b forming cabinet 200.Alternately, in the device that some is not preferred, filter 203a, 203b can place along the non-opposite wall of cabinet.
The same with the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, air is through air intake 201a, 201b (arrow 210) inflow cabinet and along sidewall 202a, 202b (arrow 211) through filter 203a, 203b.After fan 206a, 206b, air flow in cavity 217.Alternatively, as shown in Figure 2 b, cavity 217 is isolated thing 218 and is divided into two sub-cavity 217a, 217b, and spacer 218 extends to pipeline 219a, 219b, and intake air flows through the bottom that pipeline 219a, 219b arrive cabinet 200.Then, similar with the mode shown in Fig. 1, air enters internal capacity 207 through the permeable bottom 220 (arrow 214) of air, and existing internal capacity in cabinet before rising through, by the opening 222 on the top of internal capacity 207, through the outlet in cabinet top layer 223.
Preferably, fan 206a, 206b are centrifugal type fan, and air is upwards attracted along the direction being parallel to fan rotation axis in this fan, and discharges with the direction perpendicular to this axle, indicate in figure 2b with arrow 212.
If an inefficacy in fan, spacer 218 can prevent air stream from directly flowing to another fan 206b, 206a from fan 206a, a 206b, and the air intake preventing air circulation excessively relative flows out cabinet 200.Therefore this spacer can guarantee that air continuously flows through internal capacity 207, will have enough safe clearances if consider, internal capacity 207 should be able to provide enough cooling-air stream, until the fan lost efficacy is replaced.
Other embodiments are intended to fall in the scope of invention that appending claims limits.

Claims (5)

1. there is an equipment cabinets for air cooling system, comprising:
First air intake, extends through the first outer wall of described cabinet;
Second air intake, extends through the second outer wall of described cabinet, and wherein said second outer wall is relative with described first outer wall;
First air intake filter, be arranged in formed described cabinet described first outer wall the first and second relative side panels between;
Second air intake filter, be arranged in formed described cabinet described second outer wall the third and fourth relative side panel between;
Limit the pipeline of air flow path, between the outlet side at the top of each of described pipeline in described first air intake filter and the second air intake filter and the bottom of the internal capacity of described cabinet;
First fan, is arranged as and attracts air through described first air intake filter and the described internal capacity entering described cabinet is contained in this equipment with cooling; And
Second fan, is arranged as and attracts air through described second air intake filter and the described internal capacity entering described cabinet is contained in this equipment with cooling;
Wherein said pipeline is isolated thing and is divided into two parts, the air flow of the outlet side from described first and second air intake filters is become Part I and Part II by described spacer, this Part I extends between the described outlet side and the bottom of described internal capacity of described first air intake filter, and this Part II extends between the described outlet side and the bottom of described internal capacity of described second air intake filter.
2. equipment cabinets according to claim 1, wherein said first air intake filter and the second air intake filter include one or more panel, and described panel has the seta array extended from one or both sides.
3. equipment cabinets according to claim 1 and 2, wherein by described first and second side panels lower edge between gap described first air intake is provided, and by described third and fourth side panel lower edge between gap described second air intake is provided.
4. equipment cabinets according to claim 1, wherein said first air intake filter and the second air intake filter extend through the first relative outer wall and second outer wall of described cabinet.
5. equipment cabinets according to claim 4, wherein said pipeline extends through the 3rd outer wall between the described first air intake filter of described cabinet and the second air intake filter.
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