Patent ID: 6618248
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A housing arrangement for accommodating electronic assemblies, comprising:a bottom plate; front and rear sides; a hood-type, removable cover; a fan driven by an electric motor; chambers or sections formed in the housing; a fresh air duct located in the interior of the housing extending essentially parallel to and spaced apart from the bottom plate at a predetermined height, with the fresh air duct, apart from lateral air intake openings, being sealed at a suction side against the housing and the chambers or sections which are located in an interior of the housing; a first recess for accommodating a fan at a far end of the air intake openings of the fresh air duct, with the fan blowing vertically into a lower chamber located below the fresh air duct; a lateral exhaust duct communicating with the lower chamber and via which heated exhaust air is positively directed to be laterally discharged from the housing; at least one electronic assembly and heat source located in the flow direction below the fan; and a second recess located in the fresh air duct upstream of the first recess for accommodating the fan, which mounts an assembly to be cooled, said assembly extending into the lower chamber.