CN112911863A

CN112911863A - Server cabinet and server

Info

Publication number: CN112911863A
Application number: CN202110089759.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 官长明
Original assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Inspur Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-01-22
Filing date: 2021-01-22
Publication date: 2021-06-04

Abstract

The invention provides a server cabinet and a server, wherein the cabinet comprises: the cabinet body comprises a side plate, and a plurality of openings are formed in the side plate; the air inlet cover plate is arranged on the outer side of the side plate to form a cavity between the side plate and the air inlet cover plate, and comprises an air guide surface inclined towards the side plate; the air outlet direction of the fans points to the air guide surface so as to guide the air into the open holes through the air guide surface. By using the scheme of the invention, the air generated by the fan can better flow into the cabinet, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is improved, the replacement of accessories can be facilitated, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is more stable, the heat dissipation pertinence can be improved, and the heat dissipation of devices at different positions can be flexibly carried out.

Description

Server cabinet and server

Technical Field

The field relates to the field of computers, and more particularly to a server rack and server.

Background

With the development and progress of technology and the era of AI big data database and 5G, the demand of each application end for data calculation amount will be accelerated, so at present, CPU and GPU with higher wattage and system architecture thereof are gradually developed, and CPU and GPU with high wattage and energy consumption will produce heat energy which is difficult to be discharged, so each factory and business will gradually need to make corresponding design for the heat dissipation of a new generation. Immersion liquid cooling is one direction, but the expensive fluorinated liquid has not reached the cost of conventional mass production. For example, skybird-type cabinets are difficult to control precisely for each server or to optimize the overall power consumption. Therefore, there is a need to think about how to advance the possibility of heat dissipation for existing architectures of servers.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a server cabinet and a server, and through the use of the technical scheme of the present invention, air generated by a fan can better flow into the cabinet, so as to improve a heat dissipation effect of the cabinet, facilitate replacement of accessories, make the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet more stable, improve pertinence of heat dissipation, and flexibly dissipate heat of devices at different positions.

In view of the above object, an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a server rack including:

the cabinet body comprises a side plate, and a plurality of openings are formed in the side plate;

the air inlet cover plate is arranged on the outer side of the side plate to form a cavity between the side plate and the air inlet cover plate, and comprises an air guide surface inclined towards the side plate;

the air outlet direction of the fans points to the air guide surface so as to guide the air into the open holes through the air guide surface.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the air inlet cover plates are arranged on two opposite sides of the cabinet body, and the air outlet direction of the fan is directed to the rear of the cabinet body.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the air guide surface is arranged at an angle of 15 to 45 degrees with respect to the side plate.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the air intake cover plate further comprises a plurality of mounting holes, and the module of the fan is installed on the air intake cover plate in a pluggable mode through the mounting holes.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the device further comprises a baffle plate, wherein the baffle plate is arranged on the side plate in a sliding mode, and the baffle plate can selectively shield part of the open holes at different sliding positions.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the air inlet cover plate further comprises a buckling structure, and the air inlet cover plate is in buckling connection with the side plate through the buckling structure.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the fan further comprises a choke foam, and the choke foam is arranged at the edge of the air inlet cover plate, which is pointed by the air outlet direction of the fan, so that the connection part is sealed when the air inlet cover plate and the side plate are in a connection state.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the cabinet body further comprises an air outlet, and the air outlet is arranged at the rear side of the cabinet body.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the fans are arranged side-by-side and aligned with the front side of the cabinet.

In another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a server, where the server uses any one of the above server cabinets to dissipate heat.

The invention has the following beneficial technical effects: according to the server cabinet provided by the embodiment of the invention, the cabinet body is arranged and comprises a side plate, and a plurality of openings are formed in the side plate; the air inlet cover plate is arranged on the outer side of the side plate to form a cavity between the side plate and the air inlet cover plate, and comprises an air guide surface inclined towards the side plate; the technical scheme that the air outlet direction of the fan points to the air guide surface so as to guide air into the open hole through the air guide surface can enable the air generated by the fan to better flow into the cabinet, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is improved, the replacement of accessories can be facilitated, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is more stable, the heat dissipation pertinence can be improved, the device at different positions can be flexibly dissipated, and the competitiveness of a product is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other embodiments can be obtained by using the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a cross-section of a server rack according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a windintake shroud according to one embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described below. However, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely examples and that other embodiments may take various and alternative forms. The figures are not necessarily to scale; certain features may be exaggerated or minimized to show details of particular components. Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to variously employ the present invention. As one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate, various features illustrated and described with reference to any one of the figures may be combined with features illustrated in one or more other figures to produce embodiments that are not explicitly illustrated or described. The combination of features shown provides a representative embodiment for a typical application. However, various combinations and modifications of the features consistent with the teachings of the present disclosure may be desirable for certain specific applications or implementations.

In this document, when an element or portion is referred to as being "on," "engaged to," "connected to," or "coupled to" another element or portion, the element or portion may be directly on, engaged, connected, or coupled to the other element or portion, or intervening elements or portions may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being "directly on," "directly engaged to," "directly connected to" or "directly coupled to" another element or component, there may be no intervening elements or components present. Other words used to describe the relationship between elements should be interpreted in a similar manner.

In view of the above objects, a first aspect of embodiments of the present invention proposes an embodiment of a server rack. Fig. 1 shows a schematic view of the cabinet.

As shown in fig. 1, the server cabinet 1 includes a cabinet body 2, a wind inlet cover plate 5, and a plurality of fans 8. The cabinet body 2 comprises a side plate 3, and a plurality of holes 4 are formed in the side plate 3. In some embodiments, the side plates 3 are disposed on two sides of the cabinet 2, and a plurality of openings 4 are disposed on the side plates 3 on the two sides. In some embodiments, the opening 4 is formed by a plurality of small holes, and the area of the opening 4 is rectangular. In some embodiments, the openings 4 are a mesh structure.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the cowl top 5 is installed outside the side panel 3 to form a cavity 6 between the side panel 3 and the cowl top 5, and the cowl top 5 includes a wind guide surface 7 inclined toward the side panel 3. In some embodiments, the front side of the windintake shroud 5 is aligned parallel to the front side of the cabinet 2, and the rear side is an inclined wind guide surface 7.

The fan 8 is arranged in the cavity 6, and the air outlet direction of the fan 8 is directed to the air guide surface 7 so as to guide the air into the opening 4 through the air guide surface 7. In some embodiments, the fan 8 is disposed in a mounting hole formed on the front side of the intake cowl panel 5. In some embodiments, the plurality of fans 8 are arranged longitudinally to form a fan set, and the air intake cover plate 5 is provided with a fan set. In some embodiments, the fans 8 are arranged longitudinally to form a fan set, and the intake cover plate 5 is provided with a plurality of fan sets arranged transversely. As shown in fig. 2, in some embodiments, a fan side plate 9 is further included, and the fan side plate 9 is disposed on the fan set and inside the cavity 6.

As shown in fig. 1, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the wind inlet cover plates 5 are disposed at two opposite sides of the cabinet 2, and the wind outlet direction of the fan 8 is directed to the rear of the cabinet 2. Fan 8 sets up on the plane flush with the front of rack 1 of air inlet cover plate 5, the directional cabinet body 2's of the air-out direction rear of fan 8, wind that fan 8 blew out directly blows to wind-guiding face 7 on, enter into rack 1 by trompil 4 that sets up on the curb plate 3 behind the wind-guiding face 7, dispel the heat with the device to in the rack 1, wind-guiding face 7 can make the wind energy that produces can be better flow to in the rack 1, improve the radiating effect of rack 1.

As shown in fig. 1, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the air guide surface 7 is disposed at an angle of 15 to 45 degrees with respect to the side plate 3. The wind guide surface 7 can be formed at an angle of 15 to 45 degrees with the side plate 3 according to the number of the fans 8 on the wind inlet cover plate 5. In some embodiments, a group of fans 8 is arranged on the air intake cover plate 5, and the air guide surface 7 is arranged at an angle of 15 degrees with the side plate 3. In some embodiments, three sets of fans 8 are disposed on the wind inlet cover plate 5, and the wind guide surface 7 is disposed at 45 degrees to the side plate 3.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the intake cover plate 5 further comprises a plurality of mounting holes, and the module of the fan 8 is removably mounted on the intake cover plate 5 via the mounting holes. The mounting holes have a shape matching the size of the fan 8, one fan 8 can be mounted in each mounting hole, and the fan 8 can be directly inserted into or pulled out of the mounting hole. When a certain fan 8 among a plurality of fans 8 breaks down, can directly extract the fan 8 of trouble from the mounting hole, insert normal fan 8 in the mounting hole, can make things convenient for the change of accessory, make the radiating effect of rack 1 more stable.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further comprises a blocking plate, the blocking plate is slidably disposed on the side plate 3, and the blocking plate selectively blocks part of the opening 4 at different sliding positions. In some embodiments, each opening 4 of the side plate 3 is provided with a baffle, the baffle is slidably arranged on the side plate 3, the baffle can leak the opening 4 in an open position, the baffle can completely shield the opening 4 in a closed position, and the baffle can adjust the leakage size of the opening 4 in an intermediate position. When the configuration in the cabinet 1 changes, the local heat dissipation requirement in the cabinet 1 also changes, and the position of the adjusting baffle can improve the heat dissipation pertinence, thereby achieving a better heat dissipation effect.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the air intake cover plate 5 is connected with the side plate 3 in a snap-fit mode through a snap-fit structure. In some embodiments, the buckle structure sets up on curb plate 3, and air inlet cover plate 5 is connected with 3 buckles of curb plate through this buckle structure, and the buckle is connected and can be made things convenient for the change of air inlet cover plate 5, when the heat dissipation demand changes, for example when needing to increase the heat dissipation, takes off the less air inlet cover plate 5 of fan 8, changes the more air inlet cover plate 5 of fan 8, can dispose the heat dissipation of rack 1 in a flexible way, can improve the radiating effect of rack 1.

As shown in fig. 2, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a choke foam 10 is further included, and the choke foam 10 is disposed at an edge of the intake cover plate 5 where the air outlet direction of the fan 8 is directed, so as to seal the connection position when the intake cover plate 5 and the side plate 3 are in a connected state. In some embodiments, the choke foam 10 is disposed at all edges of the intake hood panel 5 to seal all connections of the intake hood panel 5 and the side panel 3.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cabinet 2 further includes an air outlet 11, and the air outlet 11 is disposed at a rear side of the cabinet 2. In some embodiments, the front side of the cabinet body 2 is further provided with an air inlet fan 8, the air inlet fan 8 blows the air at the front side of the cabinet body 2 into the cabinet body 2 and enables the air in the cabinet body 2 to be discharged from the air outlet 11 to the whole cabinet body 2, so that the flowing direction of the air in the cabinet body 2 can be ensured to be consistent, and a better cooling effect can be achieved.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fans 8 are arranged side by side and aligned with the front side of the cabinet 2. The air inlet direction of the cabinet body 2 and the air inlet direction of the air inlet cover plate 5 can be ensured to be consistent.

In view of the above object, a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a server that uses the server cabinet 1 described above to dissipate heat.

By using the technical scheme of the invention, the air generated by the fan can better flow into the cabinet, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is improved, the replacement of accessories can be facilitated, the heat dissipation effect of the cabinet is more stable, the heat dissipation pertinence can be improved, and the heat dissipation of devices at different positions can be flexibly carried out.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

In this application, the use of the conjunction of the contrary intention is intended to include the conjunction. The use of definite or indefinite articles is not intended to indicate cardinality. In particular, references to "the" object or "an" and "an" object are intended to mean one of many such objects possible. Furthermore, the conjunction "or" may be used to convey simultaneous features, rather than mutually exclusive schemes. In other words, the conjunction "or" should be understood to include "and/or". The term "comprising" is inclusive and has the same scope as "comprising".

The embodiments described above, particularly any "preferred" embodiments, are possible examples of implementations and are presented merely to clearly understand the principles of the invention. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit and principles of the technology described herein. All such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims.

Claims

1. A server rack, comprising:

the cabinet body comprises a side plate, and a plurality of holes are formed in the side plate;

the air inlet cover plate is arranged on the outer side of the side plate to form a cavity between the side plate and the air inlet cover plate, and the air inlet cover plate comprises an air guide surface inclined towards the side plate;

the air outlet direction of the fans points to the air guide surface so as to guide the air into the open hole through the air guide surface.

2. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the inlet hood plates are disposed on opposite sides of the cabinet, and the outlet direction of the fan is directed to the rear of the cabinet.

3. The cabinet of claim 2, wherein the air deflection surface is disposed at an angle of 15 degrees to 45 degrees from the side panel.

4. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the intake cover plate further comprises a plurality of mounting holes, and the fan module is removably mounted on the intake cover plate via the mounting holes.

5. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising a baffle slidably disposed on the side panel, the baffle selectively blocking portions of the opening at different sliding positions.

6. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising a snap-fit structure through which the intake hood panel is snap-fit connected to the side panel.

7. The cabinet according to claim 1, further comprising a choke foam disposed at an edge of the intake cover plate where an air outlet direction of the fan is directed, to seal a joint when the intake cover plate and the side plate are in a connected state.

8. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the cabinet body further comprises an air outlet disposed at a rear side of the cabinet body.

9. The cabinet of claim 8, wherein the fans are disposed side-by-side and aligned with a front side of the cabinet.

10. A server, wherein the server uses the server cabinet of any one of claims 1-9 for heat dissipation.