Thermal management system for an electronic device

Abstract

A configurable multiple inlet thermal management device, such as a air-mover or passive heat sink, for electronic devices. The thermal management device is arranged on a computing device or on a component of a computing device or similar, such as an expansion module or alike, so that incoming air flow decreases the temperature of the heat producing components. In order to provide best possible air flow the air-mover comprises blade design that pressurizes the air flow from at least one side of the air-mover component. The air-mover includes removable covers for providing the openings required for intake air from the desired direction and for providing a fan wind. Depending on the application the openings may be permanently opened or closed. The intake air flow is then directed in form of fan wind towards the heat producing elements.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to thermal management in electronic devices. Background technique [0002] In the past few years, computer graphics has made great progress. Resolution has been significantly increased and quality enhancements for graphics products have been improved. Similarly, users have also become more demanding on the quality of displayed graphics. High-quality graphics are required in many different applications, such as movies, video clips, WWW pages, games, user interfaces, etc. Producing such high-quality content naturally requires more resources. Therefore, graphics computing capabilities are required in virtually every computing device. [0003] In practice, there are two ways to increase graphics computing power. The first is to introduce better algorithms and functionality, and the second is to increase computing power by increasing hardware computing power. This can be achieved by using faster processing units, increasi...

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[0008] However, for similar equipment, this can be problematic since, in both thermal management schemes, ventilation can be disturbed by nearby equipment

If the ventilation is disturbed, the temperature of the device can exceed the operating temperature, causing calculation errors or stalls in the operation of the device, or forcing the device to operate at lower power consumption (usually resulting in lower performance)

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