Patent ID: 7859841

Claim:
An information equipment having a plurality of exhaust ports, comprising: an open/close mechanism that opens or closes the exhaust ports; a radiator that dissipates heat in the information equipment into air through the exhaust ports, a user state detecting part that is disposed in a vicinity and corresponding to the exhaust ports and detects a contact state in which a hand of a user is in contact with the information equipment or a closeness state in which the hand of the user is in the vicinity of the information equipment; and a heat dissipation control part that controls an open/closed state of the open/close mechanism so that the exhaust ports corresponding to the user state detection part which has detected the state in which a hand of a user is in contact with or in the vicinity of the information equipment is set in the closed state, and is set in the opened state when the user state detecting part has sequentially detected the state in which the hand of the user is not in contact with or in the vicinity of the information equipment.