Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Notebook metal hinge as heat sink element
- Patent Title (中): 笔记本金属铰链作为散热元件
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Application No.: US13684542Application Date: 2012-11-25
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Publication No.: US09182794B2Publication Date: 2015-11-10
- Inventor: Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera , James Tanner , Michelle Yu
- Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
- Main IPC: H05K7/20
- IPC: H05K7/20 ; G06F1/16 ; G06F1/20 ; H01L23/473

Abstract:
A computing device can include a base portion housing a central processing unit, a heat exhaust element disposed within the base portion and operable to move air past the central processing unit, a display portion configured to display information to a user, and a metal hinge portion operably coupling the base portion to the display portion and being operable to couple the base portion to the display portion between an open and a closed configuration. The hinge portion can include a hollow cavity extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the metal hinge and a longitudinal slot in a wall of the metal hinge and parallel to the longitudinal axis, where the longitudinal slot is positioned relative to the heat exhaust element so as to receive air moved by the heat exhaust element through the slot and into the hollow cavity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150169014A1 NOTEBOOK METAL HINGE AS HEAT SINK ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2015-06-18
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