External thermal solution for a mobile computing device
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1. A method, comprising:
- causing forced air to flow through a hollow cable coupling an external cooling station to a heat exchanging unit, the heat exchanging unit located within a mobile computing device;
transferring heat from within the mobile computing device to the cooling medium at the heat exchanging unit by directing the forced air arriving from the cable at the heat exchanging unit into a manifold located across the length of one end of a heat exchanging element inside the heat exchanging unit, the manifold including a plurality of holes, each of the plurality of holes substantially smaller in diameter than the internal diameter of the manifold and each of the plurality of holes situated in a line on one side of the manifold so that the forced air entering the manifold from the cable will be expelled out of each of the holes across the heat exchanging element; and
expelling the forced air containing the transferred heat out of the mobile computing device.
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Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment method includes causing a cooling medium to flow through a hollow cable. The cable couples an external cooling station to a heat exchanging unit. The heat exchanging unit is located within a mobile computing device. The method then transfers heat from within the mobile computing device to the cooling medium at the heat exchanging unit. Then the cooling medium contained the transferred heat is expelled out of the mobile computing device.
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1. A method, comprising:
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causing forced air to flow through a hollow cable coupling an external cooling station to a heat exchanging unit, the heat exchanging unit located within a mobile computing device; transferring heat from within the mobile computing device to the cooling medium at the heat exchanging unit by directing the forced air arriving from the cable at the heat exchanging unit into a manifold located across the length of one end of a heat exchanging element inside the heat exchanging unit, the manifold including a plurality of holes, each of the plurality of holes substantially smaller in diameter than the internal diameter of the manifold and each of the plurality of holes situated in a line on one side of the manifold so that the forced air entering the manifold from the cable will be expelled out of each of the holes across the heat exchanging element; and expelling the forced air containing the transferred heat out of the mobile computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A system, comprising:
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a hollow cable to contain a flow of forced air; an external cooling station, coupled to a first end of the hollow cable, to maintain a predetermined temperature of the cooling medium; and cause the cooling medium to flow through the hollow cable; and a mobile computing device including a heat exchanging unit, the heat exchanging unit coupled to a second end of the hollow cable, wherein heat generated from a location within the mobile computing device is transferred to the cooling medium at a heat exchanging element in the heat exchanging unit by directing the forced air arriving from the cable into a manifold located across the length of one end of the heat exchanging element, the manifold including a plurality of holes, each of the plurality of holes substantially smaller in diameter than the internal diameter of the manifold and each of the plurality of holes situated in a line on one side of the manifold so that the forced air entering the manifold from the cable will be expelled out of each of the holes across the heat exchanging element and subsequently expelled from the mobile computing device. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus, comprising:
a heat exchanging unit within a mobile computing device to receive forced air from a hollow cable originating from an external cooling station; route the forced air to a heat exchanging element within the heat exchanging unit; facilitate the transfer of heat radiating from the heat exchanging element to the forced air by directing the forced air arriving from the cable into a manifold located across the length of one end of the heat exchanging element inside the heat exchanging unit, the manifold including a plurality of holes, each of the plurality of holes substantially smaller in diameter than the internal diameter of the manifold and each of the plurality of holes situated in a line on one side of the manifold so that the forced air entering the manifold from the cable will be expelled out of each of the holes across the heat exchanging element; and expel the heated forced air out of the mobile computing device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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