US 11,835,055 B2
Fan control device and setting method
Kwangsoo Kim, Yamanashi-ken (JP); and Tetsuro Matsudaira, Yamanashi-ken (JP)
Assigned to FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi-Ken (JP)
Appl. No. 17/800,811
Filed by FANUC CORPORATION, Minamitsuru-gun (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 22, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/006648
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/172277, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-030233 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0084489 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. F04D 27/00 (2006.01); F04D 25/16 (2006.01)
CPC F04D 27/004 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fan control device including a plurality of input/output ports and configured to control one or more fans that are connected to the plurality of input/output ports, the fan control device comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire a number of the fans connected to the input/output ports and a type of fan of each of the fans connected to the input/output ports;
a storage unit in which a plurality of fan configuration patterns indicating the number of the fans and the type of fan are stored;
a specification unit configured to specify, from among the plurality of the fan configuration patterns stored in the storage unit, a fan configuration pattern that coincides with the number of the fans and the type of fan acquired by the acquisition unit; and
a setting unit configured to set, in the fans connected to the input/output ports, a threshold value of a rotational speed when the fans are made to rotate, the threshold value being associated with the fan configuration pattern specified by the specification unit.