Patent ID: 6226180
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: G02F,G06F

Abstract:
A heat dissipation structure in a housing of an electronic apparatus, the housing having spaced main surfaces extending in generally parallel, lateral directions and defining an interior therebetween, the interior being surrounded at least in part by a sidewall and the electronic apparatus having an input device supported on a portion of one of the main surfaces of the housing and defining a corresponding first portion of the interior of the housing and a heat producing element disposed at least in part within the first interior portion of the housing and, in operation, producing heat and discharging at least a part of the heat into the first interior portion of the housing, the heat dissipation structure comprising:a heat transfer member having a heat reception portion, disposed at least in part within the first interior portion of the housing and thermally coupled to the heat producing element to receive at least part of the heat produced and discharged thereby, and a heat dissipation portion, disposed at least in part within a second interior portion of the housing which is displaced from the first interior portion in a lateral direction substantially parallel to the main surfaces of the housing, extending along the sidewall of the housing and displaced laterally from the first interior portion of the housing, the heat dissipating portion dissipating heat transmitted thereto through the heat transfer member from the heat reception portion into the second interior portion of the housing.