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US 2008/0174959 A1Published application
Cooling device and method for acoustic apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Sano, Toshiyuki Takahashi
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Abstract
A cooling device for an acoustic apparatus includes a cooling fan that is turned on and off, and adjusted in quantity of airflow in accordance with an apparatus temperature, wherein when the apparatus temperature is lower than a value requiring immediate cooling, and when an audio output is in a mute state, the cooling fan is not changed in operating state.
Claims10
A cooling device for an acoustic apparatus comprising:
- a cooling fan that is turned on and off and adjusted in quantity of airflow generated in accordance with an apparatus temperature, wherein
- when the apparatus temperature is lower than a value requiring immediate cooling, and when an audio output is in a mute state, the cooling fan is not changed in operating state.
A cooling method for an acoustic apparatus comprising:
- performing cooling by turning on and off a cooling fan and adjusting the quantity of airflow generated by the cooling fan in accordance with an apparatus temperature;
- and
- controlling an operating state of the cooling fan such that the operating state is not changed when the apparatus temperature is lower than a value requiring immediate cooling and when an audio output is in a mute state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.