Southco’s Blind Mate Floating Mechanism Empowers Efficient Cooling in Data Centers

 

Advantages Over Traditional Solutions

 

Compared to traditional fixed or simple floating heat transfer connection solutions, Southco's "Blind Mate Floating Mechanism" offers a qualitative leap with advantages evident across multiple dimensions.

Three-Dimensional Dynamic Tolerance Control: Southco's innovative design features a groundbreaking three-dimensional dynamic compensation mechanism: ±4mm of floating tolerance in the radial direction (2° tilt compensation) and 6mm of displacement absorption capacity in the axial direction. This far exceeds common static tolerances in the industry, effectively absorbing and adapting to all previously mentioned installation tolerances, vibration displacements, and thermal expansion deformations.

Self-Centering Mechanism: When the liquid-cooled blind-plug connector is unplugged, the floating structure automatically resets to the center position, ensuring sufficient floating space for plugging and unplugging operations, fully meeting the strict tolerance requirements of OCP and ORV3 standards.

Outstanding Sealing Performance for Long-Term Operation: Products endure rigorous ASME B31.3 standard 300psig burst pressure tests, ensuring over 10 years of service life, providing long-term stability for data centers, an achievement traditional solutions cannot match.

 

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Efficient Maintenance and Significant Cost Reduction: Featuring the Universal Quick Disconnect Blind (UQDB) interface, the design enables genuine "blind operations," allowing server maintenance without precise alignment or specialized tools. Quick disconnect capabilities make server replacement or upgrades as convenient as "hot plugging," reducing downtime and related losses by over 90%.

The Necessity of Blind Mate Floating Mechanism

 

In AI computing clusters and next-generation data centers, adopting advanced connection solutions like Southco's "Blind Mate Floating Mechanism" is no longer optional, but essential.

Key to Overcoming Cooling Bottlenecks: High power density is an inevitable trend; traditional cooling and rigid connections can no longer meet the demand. The Blind Mate Floating Mechanism is foundational for unleashing the full potential of liquid cooling and ensuring efficient, stable operation of cooling systems.

Sumber: media outreach newswire