Electronic device
An electronic apparatus including a housing having an air outlet and a heat generating component in the housing, a heat sink in the housing and having heat radiating fins arrayed. The apparatus includes heat radiating fins having air flow paths between adjacent pairs of the heat radiating fins, and a fan in the housing. The fan feeds air to an air inlet of the heat sink to exhaust heat of the heat radiating fins from the air outlet of the housing. The air outlet of the housing has openings arrayed which divide the air flow paths formed between the pairs of heat radiating fins.
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing including an air outlet;
a heat generating component in the housing;
a heat sink in the housing, the heat sink comprising:
a heat radiating member, and
a heat conducting member, the heat radiating member including a plurality of heat radiating fins arrayed, the plurality of heat radiating member fins having a plurality of air flow paths formed between adjacent pairs of the heat radiating fins, an air outlet which faces the air outlet of the housing and an air inlet which is in a side remote from the air outlet of the heat radiating fins, and the heat conducting member contacting the heat generating component to absorb heat and conducting the heat to the heat radiating member; and
a fan in the housing, the fan feeding air to the air inlet of the heat radiating member to exhaust heat of the heat radiating fins from the air outlet of the housing;
wherein the air outlet of the housing includes a plurality of openings arrayed and a part of the housing between each of the respective openings that divide the air flow paths formed between the pairs of heat radiating fins of the heat radiating member, as viewed in a direction looking from outside the housing to the air outlet of the housing.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the housing is in a form of a plate,
the arrayed heat radiating fins extend upward in a thickness direction of the housing, and
the air outlet of the housing includes the plurality of openings in a form of slits extending obliquely with respect to the thickness direction of the housing.
3. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein the air outlet of the housing is formed in a side of the housing.
4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of the heat generating components,
wherein the heat conducting member contacts the plurality of heat generating components to absorb heat and conducts heat of the plurality of heat generating components to the heat radiating member.
5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the housing is an processing unit containing a processing circuit which performs arithmetic processing, and
the heat conducting member contacts the processing circuit which is the heat generating component to absorb heat.
6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein
the processing unit has a keyboard for inputting an instruction in response to user operation on an upper surface thereof, and
the electronic device has a display unit having a display screen connected to the processing unit so as to be openable and closable.
7. The electronic device according to claim 6 , wherein the display unit is connected to the processing unit by a biaxial connector member which is rotatable about a rotational axis perpendicular to the upper surface of the processing unit upon the display unit being in an open state with respect to the processing unit.
8. The electronic device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a display controller displaying information on the display screen in a first display mode and a second display mode, the first display mode to display the information on the display screen with the direction of the rotational axis as an up-and-down direction in a first state of use in which the display unit is opened with respect to the processing unit and the second display mode to display the information on the display screen with a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis as an up-and-down direction in a second state of use in which the display unit is overlaid on the processing unit with the display screen facing outside.
9. An electronic device comprising:
a housing including an air outlet;
a heat generating component in the housing;
a heat sink in the housing, the heat sink comprising:
a heat radiating member, and
a heat conducting member, the heat radiating member including a plurality of heat radiating fins arrayed, the plurality of heat radiating member fins having a plurality of air flow paths formed between adjacent pairs of the heat radiating fins, an air outlet which faces the air outlet of the housing and an air inlet which is in a side remote from the air outlet of the heat radiating fins, and the heat conducting member contacting the heat generating component to absorb heat and conducting the heat to the heat radiating member; and
a fan in the housing, the fan feeding air to the air inlet of the heat radiating member to exhaust heat of the heat radiating fins from the air outlet of the housing;
wherein the air outlet of the housing includes a plurality of openings arrayed which divide the air flow paths formed between the pairs of heat radiating fins of the heat radiating member, as viewed in a direction looking from outside the housing to the air outlet of the housing, and
wherein the plurality of openings includes a slit width wider than an array pitch of the heat radiating fins.