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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1999
Michael Sheridan, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Martin Patterson, Grenoble, FR;
Pavani Diwanji, San Jose, CA (US);
Geoffrey Baehr, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David Allison, San Ramon, CA (US);
Steven Peart, Campbell, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication appliance with a desktop unit and a secondary unit. The desktop unit includes an outer casing, bottom feet, openings in the outer casing for control elements, a plurality of heat-producing electronic components and at least one speaker. The bottom feet extend from a bottom of the outer casing and support the outer casing on a surface such that the bottom of the outer casing is spaced from the surface. The control elements are used for operating the communication appliance. The outer casing includes a plurality of cooling slots for cooling electronic components found in the interior of the communication appliance so that a fan or other external device is not needed.