KR20130104556A - Rack mount blade personal computer system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A rack mount blade PC system is provided to naturally ventilate hot air generated by a blade PC toward the outside of a rack cabinet by natural convection, thereby naturally cooling the blade PC. CONSTITUTION: A rack cabinet (10) includes a rack cabinet frame (40) and sliding guides. The sliding guides are installed at the lower part of an upper rack cabinet frame and at the upper part of a lower rack cabinet frame and positioned a certain interval apart from a left rack cabinet and a right rack cabinet. A fuel cell rechargeable battery (62) is charged by a fuel cell which supplies power to a rack blade PC (20). The rack blade PC and the fuel cell rechargeable battery case are mounted by the guidance of the sliding guides, so the rack blade PC and the fuel cell rechargeable battery slide whiling mounting and dismounting.

Description

Rack mount blade personal computer system

The present invention relates to a rack-mounted blade PC system for installing the PC main body in a rack, provided in the computer room, and using only the terminal connected to the input / output device and the PC main body in the user table.

In general, an office or a PC room is provided with a large number of PC bodies and monitors at each user table, so that the table space becomes cramped, heat is exhausted from the PC body, and noise is generated. Since critical key information is created on a computer and managed as a file, it is easy to copy and transfer, which may cause users (internal employees) to leak the company's key information to the outside. Therefore, the security function is strengthened, for example, prohibiting the use of external storage devices such as USB memory on the PC, and automatically filtering out certain words in the e-mail or attachments larger than a certain capacity.

Accordingly, in order to improve the above-mentioned problems of the general PC, a new concept of a computer system, a rack-mounted blade PC system has emerged.

The rack-mounted blade PC system is a blade PC in the form of a blade that replaces the main body of the PC by integrating the main components of the PC such as CPU, memory, and hard disk, and a plurality of shelves where the blade PC is inserted and installed. Rack-mount system consisting of a central rack (rack) cabinet having a) installed in the computer room (data center); An input / output device including a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse installed at a user table; And a terminal installed at a user table, and having an input / output device connected to the rack mount system.

In this rack-mounted blade PC system, dozens of blade PCs are installed in the computer room, and only the terminals and I / O devices (monitor, keyboard, and mouse) are installed in the user table, so the user turns on the terminal on the table and connects his PC to the network. You can work on your computer without running a big deal with existing PCs by running your work data or applications on a physical blade PC installed in the computer room through a monitor.

As described above, the use of the blade PC has the following advantages.

In terms of security, centralized management of hard disks that contain important data enables centralized management of information and users cannot copy information to USB memory or CDs. Moreover, all computer usage records remain so whether information is leaked in real time. It can be monitored to prevent leakage of confidential information, to effectively prevent hacking and virus attacks on individual PCs, and to handle rapid security incidents through log tracking.

In terms of management, the centralized management of the computer room enables patch and upgrades to be solved at once, and even if the blade PC fails, it can immediately access another blade to read and process existing files and easily recover them.

In terms of cost, the old specification eliminates the need for frequent computer replacements, reduces maintenance and maintenance costs, and reduces power costs.

Patent documents 1 and 2 and 3 are disclosed in connection with a rack mount blade PC system having the above-described advantages, and have the following problems.

Patent Document 1 (Rack-mounted Computing Device and Rack-mounted Computing System) is a forced cooling method using a plurality of cooling fans to generate heat generated by the CPU, which increases cost, noise, and power consumption. Electric power is increased because AC power is used, and rack power supply (RPSU) is used to increase power efficiency, but it is expensive, and noise and heat are generated.

Patent document 2 (energy-saving air conditioning apparatus for green PC room, and its method) is forced cooling including an intake blower, a duct, and an exhaust blower in order to remove the heat generated from the PC main body to the outside of the blocked PC rack. This increases the cost, noise generation, and power consumption, and increases the electric bill because commercial power, AC power, is used for the blade PC.

Patent Literature 3 (a combined rack system that separates hot air discharge, a cooling system in a data center using the same, and a method thereof) discloses a plurality of cooling fans, exhaust pipes, And forced cooling method including a discharge fan, such as cost increase, noise generation and power consumption is increased.

Republic of Korea Utility Model 20-2011-0006223 Republic of Korea Patent Publication 10-2011-0132883 Republic of Korea Patent Registration 10-0962400

An object of the present invention is to change the structure of the rack cabinet in which the rack blade PC is installed to remove the heat generated from the rack blade PC by a natural cooling method rather than forced cooling method, the power provided to the rack blade PC rack power Rack mount to supply solar power, wind power, and fuel cells with high power efficiency by using hybrid power supply, instead of commercial AC power supply, without using RPSU In providing a blade PC system.

An object of the present invention described above, the rack cabinet frame; Installed at the bottom of the upper rack cabinet frame of the rack cabinet frame to be spaced apart from the top of the upper rack cabinet frame, installed at the top of the lower rack cabinet frame to be spaced apart from the bottom of the lower rack cabinet frame, left rack cabinet frame and right rack cabinet A rack cabinet including a plurality of sliding guides spaced apart from the frame; A fuel cell rechargeable battery charged by a fuel cell supplying power to the rack blade PC; And a plurality of comb-shaped slot-shaped vents are formed on all four sides of the case, guided by sliding guides for sliding storage and withdrawal, and include a rack blade PC and a fuel cell rechargeable battery case spaced apart from the rear when the sliding housing is installed. Is achieved by a rack-mounted blade PC system.

In the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention, a cover having a plurality of comb-shaped slotted vents provided on the top, left, and right surfaces, or on the top, left, right, and bottom surfaces of a rack cabinet frame. It further comprises a plate.

In the rack mount blade PC system of the present invention, the fuel cell rechargeable battery is supplied with fuel cell energy by a DC / DC converter, and the power supply of the fuel cell rechargeable battery is converted into alternating current by an inverter and controlled by a controller to provide the rack blade PC. It is characterized by being provided.

In the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention, the power supply to the rack blade PC further comprises a solar battery and a wind rechargeable battery that is charged by the solar and wind energy to power the rack blade PC is a solar battery and It is characterized by consisting of a hybrid system for supplying the wind rechargeable battery as the main power supply, and supplying the fuel cell rechargeable battery as the auxiliary power when the power supply is insufficient.

In the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention, a solar rechargeable battery, a wind rechargeable battery and a fuel cell rechargeable battery are provided with solar and wind energy and fuel cell energy by a DC / DC converter, and a solar rechargeable battery, a wind rechargeable battery, and a fuel Power of the battery rechargeable battery is characterized in that the inverter is switched to the alternating current is controlled by the controller provided to the rack blade PC.

Due to the structure of the rack cabinet in which the rack blade PC of the present invention is stored and installed, hot air generated in the blade PC is naturally ventilated from the rack cabinet to the outside by natural convection, thereby naturally cooling the rack blade PC to the rack blade PC. Rack-mounted blades with clean technology that reduces costs, noise, reduces power consumption, and saves electricity by providing power from hybrid or fuel cells consisting of solar, wind and fuel cells. PC system can be provided.

1 is a perspective view showing a rack cabinet equipped with a rack blade PC of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing an exploded view of FIG. 1; FIG.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a rack cabinet frame of the present invention.
4 is a perspective view of a rack blade PC of the present invention.
5 is a cut perspective view of a front portion of the rack cabinet according to the present invention;
6 is a front sectional view showing the rack blade PC installed in FIG.
7 is a partial side cross-sectional view of FIG. 1.
Figure 8 is a block diagram of a hybrid system for supplying power to the rack blade PC of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the technical composition of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Prior patent documents use an air conditioner or a cooling fan to remove heat generated by a system such as a main board by forced cooling, but the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention is a low-cost alternative to an ATX motherboard used in a general desktop PC. Local cache-based virtualization technology to reduce heat and noise by using Atom CPU without CPU fan to minimize heat generation, improve power saving rate, and lower heat by using ITX motherboard which is heat-saving. The system is stabilized to use about 10% of HDD, CPU, and Memory.

While a typical PC has HDD and power consumption by installing and using an operating program (OS) and an application program (A / P) on the HDD, the present invention provides an operating program (OS) of the rack blade PC 20, All applications (A / P) and data are stored in the server as an image, and the non-partition space of the HDD of the Rack Blade PC 20 is used as a local cache. The system uses a local cache-based virtualization technology that takes images and executes them in the local cache of the client PC. The physical HDD does not use data storage except to minimize HDD heat and power consumption.

The environment you use is a logical environment that is designed to always boot from a clean image stored on the server, and only administrators can add new application (A / P) or operating system (OS) changes. If a system failure occurs, such as a virus infection such as a worm or spyware, or an operating system (OS) damage, the failure is quickly resolved.

The rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention adopts a natural ventilation system that frees air circulation up, down, left, and right of the rack cabinet by changing the structure of the rack blade PC case and the rack cabinet instead of the cooling fan for forced cooling.

The rack mount blade PC system of the present invention has a rack cabinet 10 in which a rack blade PC 20 and a rack blade PC 20 are mounted in order to apply a natural ventilation method by natural convection.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the rack cabinet 10 forms a separation space through which air flows up, down, left, and right, and includes a rack cabinet frame 40 and a sliding guide 30. The rack cabinet frame 40 is a rectangular box form the frame of the rack cabinet 10, but the sliding guide 30 is installed at the bottom of the upper rack cabinet frame 41 of the rectangular rack cabinet frame Spaced apart from the top of the upper rack cabinet frame 41, installed on the top of the lower rack cabinet frame 42, spaced apart from the bottom of the lower rack cabinet frame 42, the left rack cabinet frame 43 and the right rack cabinet frame 44 and spaced apart.

And the rack blade PC 20, as shown in Figure 4, the sliding storage and withdrawal in the rack cabinet 10, guided in and out by the sliding guide 30, the sliding storage and withdrawal, the rack blade PC (20) 7 is spaced apart from the rear and a predetermined interval as shown in Figure 7 during the sliding storage installation, slot-shaped vent hole 51 of the comb-shaped pattern is formed on all sides of the case 21. The rack blade PC 20 of this structure includes a low-heat power-saving ITX motherboard, an Atom CPU, and an HDD installed therein.

In addition, a cover plate 50 having a plurality of comb-shaped slotted vents 51 is installed on the top, left, and right sides of the rack cabinet frame 40, which takes into account aesthetics, or A cover plate 50 having a plurality of slot-shaped vent holes 51 in the form of a comb-tooth pattern is installed on the left side, the right side, and the bottom surface. It is not necessary to install the cover plate 50 on the back. Because it is often attached to the wall, there is no need to consider the aesthetics. If necessary, the cover plate 50 may be installed on the rear surface.

Meanwhile, the rack mount blade PC system of the present invention does not use a rack power supply unit (RPSU) as a device for supplying commercial AC power to the rack blade PC 20, but instead supplies power to the rack blade PC 20. Or a solar cell 72, a wind battery 82, and a fuel cell charger 62, the hybrid system power supply method. Consists of. The fuel cell is preferably a metal fuel cell (MAFC).

As shown in FIG. 8, the solar battery 72 by the solar light 70, the wind battery 80 by the wind power 80, and the fuel cell battery 62 by the fuel cell 60 are DC. Solar energy, wind energy, and fuel cell energy are provided by the / DC converters 71, 81, 61, respectively, and the solar battery 72, the wind battery 82, and the fuel cell battery 62 The power of is switched to the alternating current by the inverter 90 is controlled by the controller 100 is provided to the rack blade PC (20).

In the power supply hybrid system for supplying power to the rack blade PC 20, the power supplied to the rack blade PC 20 is supplied using the solar rechargeable battery 72 and the wind rechargeable battery 82 as main power, and the power supply is insufficient. City fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 is supplied as an auxiliary power source. The fuel cell is mainly operated at night when the rechargeable battery voltage is low due to no solar power generation, and is stopped during the day.

As shown in FIG. 6, the sliding guide 30 of the rack cabinet 10 is installed in the rack cabinet frame 40 in the upper portion of the rack cabinet frame 40 in a "┳" shape and the bottom of the rack cabinet PC 20. The solar rechargeable battery 72, the wind rechargeable battery 82, and the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 are stored and taken out.

As described above, the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention minimizes heat generation and power consumption of the rack blade PC, and also generates heat of the rack blade PC by forming a structure of the rack cabinet in a natural ventilation method to allow natural ventilation. On the other hand, by supplying the power of the rack blade PC using environmentally friendly wind, photovoltaic, fuel cell is an invention implemented as a green technology with the overall technical and greenness.

Looking at the ventilation structure of the rack cabinet 10 through FIGS. 4 to 7, the ventilation space 200 is formed in the upper, lower, left, and right sides of the rack blade PC 20 in which the low-heat power-saving ITX mainboard and the Atom CPU are built, A ventilation space 200 is also formed between the rack blade PC 20, and a ventilation space 200 is also formed between the rear of the rack blade PC 20 and the rear of the rack cabinet 10.

When the rack blade PC 20 operates to generate heat, the warm air expands due to natural convection and the density decreases, thereby rising by buoyancy, and the cold air descends by the circulation of the descending air. Warm warm air by the heat of the 20 is leaked into the ventilation space 200 through the ventilation holes 22 on all sides of the rack blade PC 20, and natural convection to the ventilation holes 51 of the cover plate 50 It is cooled by natural ventilation while exiting.

In summer, as the cold air is started, the cold air of the cold air flows down, and the cold air flows into the rack cabinet 10 through the vent holes 51 of the cover plate 50, and the cold air flows into the rack blades. It is introduced into the air through the vent 22 of the PC 20 to cool the heat generated by the electronic components of the rack blade PC 20 is discharged to the outside through the ventilation space 200, the heat of the rack blade PC 20 more natural Cool by ventilation method.

In winter, as the warm air is started, the warm air of the warm air is raised to push the cold air down, so that the cool air flows into the rack cabinet 10 through the vent hole 51 of the cover plate 50, Cool air is introduced into the rack blade PC (20) through the vent 22 to cool the heat generated by the electronic components of the rack blade PC (20) to the outside through the ventilation space (200) while the rack blade PC (20) Cools the heat by natural ventilation.

As such, the present invention achieves the natural cooling method by natural convection instead of the forced cooling method by the cooling fan by changing the structure of the rack cabinet 10.

The rack blade PC 20 is powered by a fuel cell rechargeable battery 60 or a solar battery 70, a wind battery 80, and a fuel cell charger 60 as shown in FIG. 8. Supplied, the solar energy, wind energy, and fuel cell energy are converted and provided by the DC / DC converters 71, 81, 61, and the solar rechargeable battery 72, the wind rechargeable battery 82, and fuel The power of the battery rechargeable battery 62 is switched to the alternating current by the inverter 90 and is controlled and provided by the controller 100.

The rack blade PC 20 is supplied with power only to the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62, or the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62, the solar rechargeable battery 72, and the wind rechargeable battery 82 are configured as a hybrid system to supply power. .

Thus, by configuring the power supply of the rack-mounted blade PC system of the present invention as a rechargeable battery, it is possible to reduce costs, noise, reduce power consumption, and reduce electric bills, and no pollution occurs.

10; Rack Cabinet 20: Rack Blade PC
22,51: vent 30: sliding guide
40: rack cabinet frame 50: cover plate
62: fuel cell rechargeable battery 72: solar rechargeable battery
82: wind rechargeable battery

Claims (5)

A rack cabinet frame 40; It is installed at the bottom of the upper rack cabinet frame 41 of the rack cabinet frame and spaced apart from the top of the upper rack cabinet frame 41, and is installed at the top of the lower rack cabinet frame 42 and the bottom of the lower rack cabinet frame 42. A rack cabinet 10 spaced apart from and including a plurality of sliding guides 30 spaced apart from the left rack cabinet frame 43 and the right rack cabinet frame 44;
A fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 charged by the fuel cell 60 for supplying power to the rack blade PC 20; And
A plurality of comb-shaped slot-shaped vents 22 are formed on the four sides of the case 21 and guided in and out by the sliding guide 30 for sliding storage and withdrawal. Rack mount blade PC system comprising a PC (20) and a fuel cell rechargeable battery case. The method according to claim 1,
A cover plate 50 having a plurality of comb-shaped slotted vents 51 installed on the top, left, and right sides, or on the top, left, right, and bottom surfaces of the rack cabinet frame 40 is provided. Rack mount blade PC system, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 is supplied with fuel cell energy by the DC / DC converter 61, and the power supply of the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 is converted into alternating current by the inverter 90 and controlled by the controller 100. Rack mounted blade PC system, characterized in that provided in the rack blade PC (20). The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The power supply to the rack blade PC 20 further includes a solar rechargeable battery 72 and a wind rechargeable battery 82 that are charged by solar and wind energy that power the rack blade PC 20. A rack-mounted blade PC system, comprising: a hybrid system for supplying 72 and a wind rechargeable battery 82 as a main power source, and supplying a fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 as an auxiliary power source when power supply is insufficient. The method of claim 4,
The solar rechargeable battery 72, the wind rechargeable battery 82, and the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 are provided with solar and wind energy and fuel cell energy by the DC / DC converters 71, 81, and 61. The power source of the rechargeable battery 72, the wind rechargeable battery 82, and the fuel cell rechargeable battery 62 is converted into alternating current by the inverter 90, controlled by the controller 100, and provided to the rack blade PC 20. Rack-mounted blade PC system.

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