Patent ID: 6201705
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A magazine for holding a plurality of circuit boards in vertical side-by-side relationship comprising:opposing upper and lower inner wall-parts on which guide strips are mounted,wherein mutually opposing and mutually corresponding guide strips are adapted for coaction with mutually opposing edge-parts of one of said plurality of circuit boards to receive one of said plurality of circuit boards having a number of edge-related contact surfaces in the magazine and into mechanical and electrical coaction between said contact surfaces and guide strips, and to enable one of said plurality of circuit boards to be withdrawn from the magazine, andmeans for dissipating heat developed by the circuit board to the outside of the magazine,said means including a plurality of cooling channels that are delimited by wall-parts,wherein two of these wall-parts are placed proximate one another, with their outer surfaces facing towards a respective adjacent circuit board position,wherein the mutually opposing upper and lower open end-parts of respective cooling channels extend towards a respective mutually opposing upper and lower wall-part and are positioned between two mutually adjacent guide strips, andwherein the circuit board and its components are positioned adjacent to one of said two mutually opposing channel-forming wall parts.