{"id":21161,"date":"2020-06-06T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2585102"},"modified":"2020-06-06T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:20:00","slug":"ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-cooling-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-cooling-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 patent offers a closer look at the dev kit\u2019s cooling solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A &ldquo;plurality of cooling fans&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We still don&rsquo;t know what the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/ps5\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1444988366816066600\">PS5<\/a>&nbsp;will look like but a recently published patent for its dev kit suggests that Sony is taking cooling and ventilation very seriously in this upcoming generation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The utility patent, filed by Sony in late 2019 but&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/patentscope.wipo.int\/search\/en\/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020111274&amp;tab=FULLTEXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/patentscope.wipo.int\/search\/en\/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020111274&amp;tab=FULLTEXT\" data-component-tracked=\"1\">published<\/a>&nbsp;on the World Intellectual Property Organisation Database in June 2020, highlights the dev kit&rsquo;s &ldquo;plurality of cooling fans&rdquo; which work with a heat sink in order to improve airflow and keep the console cool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although this patent appears to be for the PS5 dev kit&mdash;which is unlikely to resemble the final console if previous PlayStation dev kits are&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/the-ps5-will-look-nothing-like-its-dev-kit-if-history-is-anything-to-go-by\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"9975641658325008000\">anything to go by<\/a>&mdash;previous reports on the PS5 have suggested that its cooling system will be something special.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"keeping-cool\">Keeping cool<\/h2>\n<aside class=\"hawk-widget\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-widget-id=\"1279093542906308000\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this year,&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-14\/sony-is-struggling-with-playstation-5-price-due-to-costly-parts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-14\/sony-is-struggling-with-playstation-5-price-due-to-costly-parts\" data-component-tracked=\"1\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the PS5&rsquo;s cooling system is &ldquo;unusually expensive at a few dollars per unit&rdquo; as Sony has &ldquo;opted to lavish more on making sure heat dissipation from the powerful chips housed inside the console isn&rsquo;t an issue.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that, Sony itself touched on the console&rsquo;s cooling solution with Mark Cerny&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ph8LyNIT9sg?t=2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ph8LyNIT9sg?t=2164\" data-component-tracked=\"1\">noting<\/a>&nbsp;during the console&rsquo;s spec deep-dive that the team had to tackle the &ldquo;engineering challenge of a cost-effective and high-performance cooling solution, designed for&rdquo; the console which will be running &ldquo;at essentially constant power&rdquo; with variable frequencies for its CPU and GPU. Cerny stopped short of revealing specific details of the cooling solution, noting they were being held back for a future teardown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With all of that considered, while there&rsquo;s no guarantee that the PS5 dev kit or the cooling system shown in this patent will match up with the final consumer console, it seems likely that Sony has devised a similarly robust solution.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&rsquo;s PS5 gameplay event that was scheduled for earlier this week was&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/ps5-gameplay-reveal-event-set-for-june-4-will-be-postponed\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"2535702407061458400\">postponed<\/a>&nbsp;in order to &ldquo;allow more important voices to be heard&rdquo; amid the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. However, it has since&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=15-7tBKVPBA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=15-7tBKVPBA\" data-component-tracked=\"1\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that a new date will be announced &ldquo;soon&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not this event will give us a closer look at the design of the PS5 is unknown but with the end of 2020 and the console&rsquo;s release window fast approaching it&rsquo;s unlikely we&rsquo;ll have to wait much longer to see it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-impressive-cooling-solution\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-impressive-cooling-solution<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Emma Boyle<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Emma Boyle<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &ldquo;plurality of cooling fans&rdquo; We still don&rsquo;t know what the&nbsp;PS5&nbsp;will look like but a recently published patent for its dev kit suggests that Sony is taking cooling and ventilation very seriously in this upcoming generation.&nbsp; The utility patent, filed by Sony in late 2019 but&nbsp;published&nbsp;on the World Intellectual Property Organisation Database in June 2020, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/06\/ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-cooling-solution\/\">Continue reading <span>PS5 patent offers a closer look at the dev kit&rsquo;s cooling solution<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-cooling-solution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PS5 patent offers a closer look at the dev kit\u2019s cooling solution - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/ps5-patent-offers-a-closer-look-at-the-dev-kits-cooling-solution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PS5 patent offers a closer look at the dev kit\u2019s cooling solution - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A &ldquo;plurality of cooling fans&rdquo; 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