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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
May. 12, 2023
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Emily Lauren Clopp, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Jun Lin, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Stephen Andrew Steger, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Nicholas Daniel Streets, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A hinge assembly mounted on a housing of form part of an electronic device includes a metal hinge base extending through a mounting hole in a wall of the housing, the hinge base being connected in heat transfer relationship to a metal anchor plate on an inner side of the housing wall. The anchor plate additionally serves as a mounting base for heat-generating electronics inside the housing, the heat-generating electronics being in heat transfer relationship with the anchor plate, so that the anchor plate and the hinge base together form part of a heat transfer path conducting heat from the interior of the housing to an exterior heatsink provided be and external device component.