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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1992
Duy Q Huynh, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Prabhakara R Vadapalli, Boca Raton, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A personal computer housing has a plurality of air intake openings located around the sides and front. A fan is mounted at the rear of the housing and sucks or draws coolant air through the intakes and exhausts the air to the rear. A bulk power supply is mounted along one side of the housing and is cooled by air flow through adjacent intakes. A plurality of I/O or expansion cards are located along the opposite side of the housing and cooled by air flowing through adjacent side intakes. A plurality of system cards including a processor card and memory cards, are located in parallel, rearwardly extending rows directly between at least some of the front intakes and the fan. A DC/DC regulator card is mounted over the system cards and has a heat sink provided with rearwardly extended cooling fins aligned in the direction of air flow from front to rear.