System for cooling an electronic image assembly with circulating gas and ambient gas
AssigneeManufacturing Resources International, Inc.
InventorTim Hubbard
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Abstract
An apparatus for cooling an electronic image assembly with ambient gas and circulating gas is disclosed. A first fan may be positioned to force the circulating gas around the electronic image assembly in a closed loop while a second fan may be positioned to cause a flow of ambient gas. A structure is preferably positioned to allow the circulating gas to cross the flow of the ambient gas while substantially prohibiting the circulating gas from mixing with the ambient gas. A pair of manifolds may be placed along the sides of the electronic image assembly and may be in gaseous communication with a plurality of channels placed behind the electronic image assembly. A heat exchanger may be used in some exemplary embodiments.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- an electronic image assembly;
- a housing assembly containing said electronic image assembly;
- a first fan connected to said housing assembly and adapted to circulate gas in a first path through an interior of said housing assembly;
- a second fan connected to said housing assembly and adapted to cause ambient gas from outside said housing assembly to circulate in a second path through said interior of said housing assembly;
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- a structure positioned within said housing assembly and configured to allow the gas in said first path to cross over the ambient gas in said second path.
An apparatus comprising:
- an electronic image assembly;
- a housing assembly containing said electronic image assembly;
- a first fan connected to said housing assembly and adapted to circulate gas in a first path through said housing assembly;
- a second fan connected to said housing assembly and adapted to cause ambient gas to circulate in a second path through said housing assembly;
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- a structure comprising a first series of voids configured to accept the gas in said first path and a second series of voids configured to accept the ambient gas in said second path;
- wherein said first series of voids is oriented substantially perpendicular to said second series of voids.
An apparatus comprising:
- an electronic image assembly;
- a first fan adapted to circulate gas around said electronic image assembly in a first path;
- a second fan adapted to circulate a first flow of ambient gas;
- a first structure on a first side of said electronic image assembly configured to allow the gas in said first path to cross over the first flow of ambient gas;
- a second structure on a second side of said electronic image assembly configured to allow the gas in said first path to cross over the first flow of ambient gas;
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- a heat exchanger configured to accept the gas in said first path and a second flow of ambient gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.