Electronic appliance using heat radiation plate

• US 20060191894A1
• Filed: 02/27/2006
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiroyuki, Nakano, Shinya, Usui, Ryosuke, Mizuhara, Hideki, Inoue, Yasunori, Kojima, Noriaki
• Application Number:
  US11/362,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20060191894A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/466.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/203 for portable computers, e.g. for laptops
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20445 the coupling element being an additional piece, e.g. thermal standoff

Abstract

In a heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance in which heat generated in a heat generating member inside a flap of the electronic appliance is radiated to a space outside the flap, a heat radiation plate integrally formed with a circuit element is thermally coupled to the heat generating member and is exposed outside the flap. Heat generated in the heat generating member is conducted to the heat radiation plate via a contact portion and is radiated to a space outside the flap from an exposed surface along with heat generated in the circuit element.

Claims

1. A heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance which radiates heat generated in a heat generating member inside a flap of the electronic appliance to a space outside the flap, comprising:

a heat radiation plate integrally formed with a circuit element, wherein

the heat radiation plate is thermally coupled to the heat generating member and is provided at a position exposed outside the flap.

2. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 1, wherein the heat radiation plate is made by a metal.

3. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 1, wherein the heat radiation plate and the heat generating member are thermally coupled via a heat conductive member.

4. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 2, wherein the heat radiation plate and the heat generating member are thermally coupled via a heat conductive member.

5. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 1, wherein the heat generating member is a battery unit.

6. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 2, wherein the heat generating member is a battery unit.

7. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 3, wherein the heat generating member is a battery unit.

8. The heat radiation structure for an electronic appliance according to claim 4, wherein the heat generating member is a battery unit.

9. A mobile appliance in which a first flap and a second flap are connected to each other via a movable part, and which assumes at least two states including a first state in which the first flap and the second flap are open and a second state in which the flaps are closed, comprising:

a heat radiation plate exposed outside the first flap, wherein

an exposed surface of the heat radiation plate is covered by the second flap in the second state.

10. The mobile appliance according to claim 9, wherein the heat radiation plate is integrally formed with a circuit element.

11. The mobile appliance according to claim 9, wherein the first flap comprises a display unit, and the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the display unit.

12. The mobile appliance according to claim 10, wherein the first flap comprises a display unit, and the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the display unit.

13. The mobile appliance according to claim 9, wherein the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the movable part.

14. The mobile appliance according to claim 10, wherein the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the movable part.

15. The mobile appliance according to claim 11, wherein the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the movable part.

16. The mobile appliance according to claim 12, wherein the heat radiation plate is provided in the neighborhood of the movable part.

17. The mobile appliance according to claim 9, wherein the movable part is a hinged movable part, and the mobile appliance is capable of assuming at least two states including an opened state and a closed state, as a result of the first flap and the second flap being folded.

18. The mobile appliance according to claim 10, wherein the movable part is a hinged movable part, and the mobile appliance is capable of assuming at least two states including an opened state and a closed state, as a result of the first flap and the second flap being folded.

19. The mobile appliance according to claim 9, wherein the movable part is a slidably movable part, and the mobile appliance is capable of assuming at least two states including an opened state and a closed state, as a result of the first flap and the second flap sliding past each other in practically parallel directions.

20. The mobile appliance according to claim 10, wherein the movable part is a slidably movable part, and the mobile appliance is capable of assuming at least two states including an opened state and a closed state, as a result of the first flap and the second flap sliding past each other in practically parallel directions.