Enclosure for electrical system

• US 7,663,881 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2007
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cloud Network Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kuo, Szu-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Gandhi; Jayprakash N
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US11/834,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20080112129A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 361/687, 361/692, 361/693, 361/679.51, 361/690, 312/223.2, 312/236, 454/184
• US Class Current: 361/692
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20127 Natural convection

Abstract

An enclosure for electrical system includes a side plate and an adjusting piece movably attached to the side plate. The side plate includes a heat dissipating part in which a plurality of heat dissipating holes is defined. The adjusting piece is movable with respect to the heat dissipating part for covering portions of at least some of the heat dissipating holes. The enclosure provides a function of adjusting of heat dissipation and noise suppression of an electrical system.

Claims

1. An enclosure for electrical system, comprising:

a side plate, the side plate comprising a heat dissipating part in which a plurality of heat dissipating holes is defined, wherein a sliding groove is defined in the side plate along a circumference of a semicircle, a rubber bushing is filled in the sliding groove, a slit is defined in the rubber bushing along the sliding groove; and

an adjusting piece pivotably attached to the side plate from inside thereof, the adjusting piece being rotatable with respect to the heat dissipating part for covering portions of at least some of the heat dissipating holes, wherein a handle is set on the adjusting piece, the handle extends through the slit of the rubber bushing and is located outside the side plate for being manipulated to drive the adjusting piece to rotate with respect to the heat dissipating part.

2. The enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein a pivot is set inside the side plate, and a pivot hole is defined in the adjusting piece for engaging with the pivot.

3. The enclosure as claimed in claim 1, wherein both the heat dissipating part of the side plate and the adjusting piece are semicircle-shaped, the pivot is set at the center of the semicircle of the heat dissipating part, the center of the semicircle defined by the sliding groove is also the center of the semicircle of the heat dissipating part.

4. The enclosure as claimed in claim 3, wherein the area of the adjusting piece is bigger than the area of the heat dissipating part of the side plate, the pivot hole is defined at the center of the semicircle of the adjusting piece.

5. The enclosure as claimed in claim 1, is a computer case.

6. A plate for an enclosure of an electrical device, the plate comprising:

a part defining a plurality of first through holes; and

an adjusting piece slidably connected to the plate, the adjusting piece being constructed to selectively shield portions of at least some of the first through holes for facilitating thermal control of the enclosure;

wherein the adjusting piece is able to slide from a first position to a second position, wherein in the second position the adjusting piece covers all of the part defining the plurality of first through holes, and in the first position the adjusting piece does not cover any portion of the part defining the plurality of first through holes;

wherein the adjusting piece defines a plurality of second through holes corresponding to and smaller than the first through holes of the part, the number of the second through holes of the adjusting piece equals to the number of the first through holes of the part, the second through holes of the adjusting piece are arrayed in a same manner as the first through holes of the part such that when the adjusting piece is moved to the second position, the second through holes of the adjusting piece are aligned with the corresponding first through holes of the part;

wherein the adjusting piece is mounted inside the plate;

wherein a handle is set on the adjusting piece, a void is defined in the plate corresponding to the handle, the handle extends through the void and is located outside the plate for being manipulated to drive the adjusting piece to move with respect to the part;

wherein a cover board is fixed to an inner surface of the plate and covers the void, the cover board comprises two sliding channels, and a cutout aligned with the heat dissipating part, the adjusting piece is located between the cover board and the plate with two opposite edges thereof slidably received in the sliding channels respectively.

7. The plate as claimed in claim 6, wherein two sliding channels are formed on the plate, and two opposite edges of the adjusting piece are slidably received in the sliding channels.

8. The plate as claimed in claim 6, wherein both the heat dissipating part of the plate and the adjusting piece are rectangular-shaped, and the adjusting piece is bigger than the heat dissipating part.