Transparent Electronic Equipment Shell Design for Heat Dissipation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The additional configuration of a transparent protective casing on electronic equipment leads to poorer heat dissipation performance, compromising the overall transparency and functionality of the device.

Innovation Solution

An electronic equipment design featuring a transparent material shell that forms a sealed cavity for the display screen, mainboard, accessory, and power supply components, eliminating the need for an external transparent casing and enhancing transparency while maintaining effective heat dissipation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If a transparent protective casing is additionally equipped on the rear shell of electronic equipment, then the transparency of electronic equipment is improved, but the heat dissipation performance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovetransparencyVSAvoidheat dissipation performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the protective casing function with the display function by making the rear shell itself transparent and integrating it with the display screen. This eliminates the need for an additional transparent protective casing, thereby maintaining transparency while improving heat dissipation performance through direct contact between internal components and the transparent rear shell.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the additional transparent protective casing from the device structure, realizing that the transparent rear shell already serves as both protective casing and display medium. Removing the redundant external transparent casing eliminates the heat dissipation barrier while preserving the transparency effect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Illumination intensity

If a transparent protective casing is additionally equipped on electronic equipment, then the transparency effect is enhanced, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransparency effectVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple functions into the transparent rear shell: it serves as the protective casing, the display medium, and the structural component. This integration eliminates the need for separate transparent protective casing and display screen layers, reducing device complexity while maintaining the transparency effect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The transparent rear shell performs multiple functions simultaneously: protection, display, and structural support. This multi-functionality reduces the number of components needed, thereby simplifying the overall device structure while achieving the desired transparency effect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3009913B1Electronic equipment
Publication Date: 2018.03.21 XIAOMI INC
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  • EP3009913B1 patent drawingFigure 3A~3B

AI summary

An electronic equipment and a method for using the same, pertaining to the field of electronic equipment manufacturing, are provided. The electronic equipment includes: a transparent material shell (101, 201) and a transparent liquid cell (102, 202), the transparent material shell is sealed to form a holding cavity in which the transparent liquid cell, a display screen component (103, 203), a mainboard component (104, 204), an accessory component (105, 205) and a power supply component (106, 206) are disposed; the mainboard component is connected to the display screen component made from transparent material; the mainboard component is connected to the accessory component; and the mainboard component is connected to the power supply component. The electronic equipment is made from transparent material so that the electronic equipment is featured by transparency, without additionally equipping the rear shell of the electronic equipment with a transparent protective casing.