Patent ID: 6230509
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
An electric apparatus comprising:a generally box-shaped housing having a front opening;a cover mounted on the housing so as to close and open the front opening of the housing;a cooler unit having an end supported in the housing so that the cooler unit pivots about a vertical axis, whereby the cooler unit is put into and taken out of the housing through the front opening of the housing, the cooler unit including a cooler having a lower generally flat box-shaped heat-absorbing section, an upper heat-radiating section and a refrigerant enclosed in the cooler so as to be circulated by natural convection between the heat-absorbing and heat-radiating sections, the cooler having two opposite sides, the cooler unit further including at least two integrated semiconductor components disposed on the opposite sides of the cooler in heat transfer relation therewith; anda fan exhausting air around the heat-radiating section of the cooler to outside the housing.