Crestron Electronics, Inc.

Charles Magrino

Albert Pedoeem

Kriss Replogle

Edward Joy

An apparatus cools electronic circuitry. A housing encloses the electronic circuitry and includes a plurality of surfaces, each configured to face an adjacent inner wall of the back box upon the housing being mounted inside the back box. A rear surface faces a rear wall of the inner walls of the back box. A mounting plate is disposed opposite to the rear surface, is in thermal contact with the housing, and faces away from the back box. A touch plate is atop of, and in thermal contact with, the mounting plate. The mounting plate and the touch plate combine to provide a path for conducting heat generated by the electronic circuitry away from the housing and for radiating the heat to ambient air. The mounting plate or the touch plate is made of a higher thermal conductivity material to facilitate conduction of heat away from the housing.

Enhanced thermal management in electrical boxes using passive cooling

An apparatus cools electronic circuitry. A housing has surfaces configured to enclose the electronic circuitry and are mountable inside a cavity in a back box. At least one of the surfaces has a vent holes therein facing an exhaust opening in the back box when the housing is mounted inside the cavity. Another surface has a fan hole that faces an intake opening in the back box when the housing is mounted inside the cavity. A cooling fan is mounted onto the another surface and disposed over the fan hole. The cooling fan is configured to draw cooling air through the intake opening in the back box and the fan hole into the housing and over the electronic circuitry. The cooling air then exits the housing through the vent holes and thereafter exits the back box through the exhaust opening.

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Cresskill, NJ, United States of America

Charles Magrino