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Thomsom Licensing

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Christopher Michael William Proctor

Mickey J Hunt

Sin Hui Cheah

Joseph Lee Carpenter

Randy Wayne Craig

Donald Edward Sutter

Girish Naganathan

Mickey Jay Hunt

An electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. A heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly lies over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is dispersed. The assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. An air current generating electric device is disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board. An air duct extends from the exhaust opening of the air current generating electric device to exhaust apertures on at least one side wall of the electronic device.

Electronic device with combination heat sink/blower or fan assembly having air duct

An electronic device includes a cover for one or more heat generating components, with the cover providing at least a combined conductive, convective, and radiant cooling for the heat generating components while maintaining the device within a prescribed temperature range. Conductive cooling is realized by providing thermal coupling between each of two or more depression regions in the cover and one or more heat generating components. Appropriate placement of air inlets and outlets through the cover provides convective cooling of the heat generating components and the thermally coupled depression regions. Heat from the heat generating components thermally coupled to one depression region is effectively isolated from heat generated by other heat generating components thermally coupled to another adjacent depression region at least in part via the air outlets through an interior region between the two adjacent depression regions. Radiant cooling can also be improved by increasing the emissivity of the device cover material.

Device cover for thermal management

There is provided an electronic device. The electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. The electronic device further includes spring clips or bend tabs. The electronic device also includes a heat sink, disposed over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is released. The heat sink has a generally flat horizontal base and a series of vertically directed fins. The heat sink is secured to at least one of the circuit board and at least one of the components thereon by the spring clips or bend tabs being positioned at a periphery of the horizontal base. The spring clips or bend tabs have distal contact prongs that contact and apply downward force on the horizontal base.

Heat sink attachment apparatus and method

A light pipe bracket () for an electronic device is provided that comprises a planar main body, light pipes () each having a proximal end and a distal end in which the light pipe extends from the distal end at the planar main body toward the distal end, and circuit board holding means () that support at least a portion of a circuit in the electronic device.

Set top box having light pipe bracket

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. The electronic device further includes a heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly, disposed over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is released. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly further includes an air current generating electric device disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board.

Electronic device with combination heat sink/blower or fan assembly

An electronic device is described including a sliding vertical door, the sliding vertical door having a top, a bottom, and two vertical sides, wherein each of the two vertical sides has a locking latch at a bottom edge of each of the two vertical sides, the locking latch being between two vertical encouraging slots in each of the two vertical sides of the sliding vertical door, and wherein the siding vertical door has a front face, the front face of the sliding vertical door having a door handle positioned at, near or adjacent to the bottom of the sliding vertical door, the door handle being centered horizontally on the sliding vertical door and a sliding door bay, the sliding door bay having a bottom edge, the sliding door bay having side walls, the side walls having grooves therein.

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Westfield, IN, United States of America

Christopher Michael William Proctor