Patent ID: 8902581

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a casing in which electronic components including a heat-emitting component that emits heat during operation are accommodated; a heat-dissipating unit having top and bottom sides, the unit being different from the heat-emitting component, and including a heat-dissipating component having a plurality of fins to which heat is transferred from the heat-emitting component, the fins defining an air-inflow side and a discharge-outlet side of the heat-dissipating component, a fan unit for supplying air to the heat-dissipating component, and a fan case accommodating the fan unit, the fan case partially constituting the top and bottom sides of the heat-dissipating unit, and having an air outlet disposed opposite the air-inflow side of the heat-dissipating component, and having a duct-connection opening formed in one of the fan-case sides constituting the top and bottom sides of the heat-dissipating unit, in a location between the fan unit and the fan-case air outlet, and a communicating path defined by the fan-case air outlet, by the air-inflow side of the heat-dissipating component, and by an opening formed in the bottom side of the heat-dissipating unit, between the fan-case air outlet and the air-inflow side of the heat-dissipating component, the communicating path communicating the air outlet in the fan case with the air-inflow side of the heat-dissipating component, whereby the heat-dissipating unit heat-exchanges heat, transferred from the heat-emitting component to the heat-dissipating component, with air supplied from the fan across the communicating path, and releases the heated air through the discharge-outlet side of heat-dissipating component to the exterior of the casing; and an airflow-ducting component connected to the duct-connection opening and extending, so as to duct airflow, from the duct-connection opening to the heat-dissipating component.