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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2001
Dennis Stone, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
William Vu, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Ryan Tze, Irvine, CA (US);
Ralph Laing, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic system comprising a plurality of circuit boards and/or drives mounted in a stack within a housing. Interconnectors are provided between the circuit boards and/or drives to connect the circuit boards and/or drives and to provide vertical separations between the circuit boards and/or drives. A cooling fan is slidably disposed adjacent a wall of the housing to create a horizontal stream of air that flows through the separations and over the top and bottom surfaces of the circuit boards and/or the drives. This provides for convective cooling in an efficient manner, while minimizing the profile of the electronic system.