{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"disequilibrium_leverage_and_dissipation_management__computer_science","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["storage controller power loss protection supercapacitor cache flush official","thermoelectric generator processor waste heat supercapacitor backup power","\"Backup power supply system using a thermoelectric generator for managing data backup operation\" patent"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["patent thermoelectric generator computer processor heat backup power capacitor","Seebeck generator computer waste heat UPS","Peltier element chip heat data backup power"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["site:micron.com power loss protection SSD capacitor data at rest white paper","site:intel.com SSD power loss imminent capacitor data in flight official","site:kingston.com SSD power loss protection capacitors enterprise official","site:seagate.com Nytro power loss data protection supercapacitor official"],"source_ids":["SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["server CPU waste heat thermoelectric energy harvesting cold plate","site:patents.google.com thermoelectric generator \"data backup operation\" electronic device","thermoelectric generator chip heat critical components backup rail","CPU thermoelectric generator cooling component UPS storage server"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"EP 4 083 750 B1 — Backup Power Supply System for Backup Operation","publisher":"European Patent Office","url":"https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.2/publication-dates/2024-06-05/patents/EP4083750NWB1/document.pdf","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["Discloses a thermoelectric generator thermally associated with a chip and connected through a boost converter to a backup supply system.","When primary voltage falls, thermoelectrically converted chip heat supplies critical components that perform a data-backup operation.","Separates interruptible and uninterruptible rails so only essential components remain powered.","Identifies conventional capacitors as secondary sources that can power a microcontroller long enough to perform backup."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"SSD Power Loss Protection: How Hardware & Firmware PLP Prevent Data Loss","publisher":"Kingston Technology","url":"https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/servers-and-data-centers/ssd-power-loss-protection","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Sudden power loss can erase in-flight data in volatile buffers or leave flash-translation metadata inconsistent.","Enterprise SSD power-loss protection uses supercapacitors or tantalum-polymer capacitors for temporary hold-up power.","On voltage collapse, stored energy lets a controller flush cached data and finalize metadata before shutdown."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Heat to Power: Thermal Energy Harvesting and Recycling for Warm Water-Cooled Datacenters","publisher":"ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture","url":"https://fangmingliu.github.io/files/H2P-camera-ready.pdf","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["A hardware prototype demonstrates thermoelectric generation from server waste heat.","A TEG placed directly between a Xeon CPU and its cold plate severely impeded heat removal and brought the CPU near its maximum temperature at only 20 percent load.","The researchers moved generation downstream to the warm-water outlet for CPU safety and measured limited generation dependent on temperature, flow, and workload."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"US9059372B2 — System for Recycling Energy","publisher":"United States Patent and Trademark Office, reproduced by Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US9059372B2/en","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["Discloses TEGs between computer heat-radiating components and their cooling components.","Expressly includes CPUs, storage controllers, storage servers, heat sinks, and supplying generated DC to the same system or an UPS.","Recognizes that inserting the TEG adds CPU-cooling thermal resistance and discusses thermal interfaces and compression loading."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"SUPPORTED","finding":"The underlying failure mode is visible: first-party storage guidance states that abrupt power removal can lose volatile in-flight data and corrupt mapping metadata unless short-duration capacitor hold-up permits an emergency commit. The EPO patent independently treats post-power-loss data backup by critical chip components as a target for backup power.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"EP 4 083 750 B1 thermoelectric backup supply for electronic-device data backup","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Directly combines chip heat, a thermoelectric generator, primary-power-loss detection, a dedicated uninterruptible rail, critical processor/memory components, and electrical support for a data-backup operation after primary power falls.","remaining_difference":"It supplies backup power from the TEG through a boost converter and actively regulates chip temperature; it does not disclose the proposal's precharged isolated supercapacitor, limited-area parallel thermal branch, intact primary path, diode-only switchover, or passive temperature-triggered conductive shunt."},{"name":"Conventional enterprise-SSD hardware power-loss protection","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Uses supercapacitors or other hold-up capacitors to sustain a storage controller long enough to commit volatile data and metadata after input voltage collapses.","remaining_difference":"The reserve is conventionally charged electrically, not from a processor-to-cold-plate thermoelectric branch."},{"name":"US9059372B2 computer waste-heat recycling system","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Places TEGs between CPUs or storage-related heat sources and cooling components, returns generated DC to computer or UPS loads, and recognizes the added thermal-resistance problem.","remaining_difference":"It does not dedicate a thermally charged stored reserve to a storage-controller emergency-commit rail or disclose the proposed passive shunt and fault-containment arrangement."},{"name":"H2P server thermoelectric harvesting prototype","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Experimentally evaluates server/CPU thermoelectric harvesting and directly tests a TEG sandwiched between a CPU and cold plate.","remaining_difference":"It targets general datacenter energy reuse rather than power-loss commit hold-up and ultimately relocates the TEG to coolant outlets instead of using a bounded parallel package branch."}],"prior_art_disposition":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","contrastive_claim_remaining":"A narrow, testable combination remains: precharge a physically isolated supercapacitor solely from a limited-area parallel TEG branch while leaving the primary CPU-to-cold-plate path intact, then passively diode-OR that reserve only onto an existing commit rail after upstream collapse, with a local temperature-triggered conductive bypass and no active creation or regulation of the thermal gradient. The retained sources disclose the central thermoelectric data-backup concept and the component practices separately, but not this entire passive bounded topology.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The contrast is falsified by a source predating the proposal that discloses the same limited-area parallel TEG/cooling topology, thermally precharged isolated capacitor, passive switchover to a data-commit rail, and temperature-triggered thermal bypass; operationally it is also falsified if the coupon cannot deliver the measured worst-case commit energy above minimum rail voltage within the allowed hot-side temperature rise and fault limits.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded screen covered the proposal directly, Seebeck/Peltier and waste-heat terminology, commercial storage power-loss protection, patents, CPU/cold-plate integration, UPS use, and component combinations. Exactly four opened sources from four publishing contexts were retained, including primary research and first-party product information.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"First-party storage evidence directly identifies volatile-data and metadata loss from abrupt power removal and describes capacitor hold-up as the established mitigation; the EPO patent independently frames backup energy for post-shutdown data backup.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although the broad thermoelectric-backup concept substantially collides with SRC1, the narrower passive parallel-branch, precharged-cell, diode-OR, and mechanical-shunt combination remains explicit and falsifiable by both documentary and bench evidence.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"An isolated heater/cold-plate coupon at three fixed permitted gradients can measure intercepted heat, added hot-side temperature, stored and delivered energy, leakage, shunt operation, and rail-above-minimum duration against a separately measured commit trace, without connecting to operational storage hardware.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"No categorical stop is apparent for the isolated coupon under laboratory electrical/thermal authority. The direct-CPU experiment in SRC3 makes thermal resistance a serious stop condition, so the unchanged primary path, limited coupling, voltage/current protection, thermal fuse, passive shunt, rated discharge procedure, and immediate halt criteria are necessary. Production attachment remains outside the authorized test.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":false,"world_novelty_boundary":"This coarse public-web screen found substantial prior-art collision with the core idea of using chip-derived thermoelectric power to sustain critical components for data backup after primary-power loss. It leaves only a narrower passive topology for testing. The bounded search does not establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, production safety, performance, or realized value."}