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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Isao Shimada, Kakogawa, JP;
Hideki Harada, Kobe, JP;
Junichi Kubota, Mino-gun, JP;
Akihiro Kuranaga, Kobe, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A portable information processing apparatus is configured to dissipate heat generated in a cabinet mainly from a part which a user hardly touches, and thus the temperature at a palm rest is suppressed. The cabinet includes a heat conducting spacer provided over a heat-generating component to conduct heat thereof, a heat absorption area to absorb the heat of the heat-generating component through the heat conducting spacer and a heat conduction obstructing area provided on a heat conduction path between the heat absorption area and the palm rest to reduce a cross-sectional area of the heat conduction path. Accordingly, heat conduction from the high-temperature heat generating component to the palm rest is restricted, and thus the temperature of the palm rest can be limited.