Patent ID: 7531949

Claim:
An interactive display table, comprising: (a) an interactive display housing; (b) a lamp housing disposed internal to the interactive display housing; (c) a thermally managed lamp disposed internal to the lamp housing, wherein: (i) the thermally managed lamp is defined by a main body portion coupled to a stem portion; and (ii) the stem portion is further defined by an electrical interface at a first end of the stem portion, a second end of the stem portion opposite the first end and being coupled to the main body portion; (d) a remote heat sink assembly thermally coupled to the interactive display housing, wherein the remote heat sink assembly includes a finned heat sink disposed of externally to the interactive display housing such that the finned heat sink is thermally coupled to an ambient environment outside of the interactive display housing; and (e) a heat pipe in thermal communication with the remote heat sink assembly and the stem portion of the thermally managed lamp and forming a closed loop there between, wherein the heat pipe is defined by a substantially hollow elongated member containing a thermally conductive fluid such that the thermally conductive fluid flows within the heat pipe by vaporizing in the heat sink adjacent to the thermally managed lamp and condensing in the remote heat sink assembly, thereby transferring heat by convective circulation from the thermally conductive lamp to the heat sink.