Gregory Joseph Mora

US Patent:

6377456, Apr 23, 2002

Filed:

Sep 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/654844

Inventors:

Pasha S. Mohi - Houston TX
Chris F. Feleman - Spring TX
Neil L. Condra - The Woodlands TX
Gregory J. Mora - Tomball TX
Stacy L. Wolff - Houston TX
Chi-Tsong Chu - Taipei, TW

Assignee:

Compaq Computer Corporation - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 120

US Classification:

361687, 361683, 361707, 361711, 165185, 174 163

Abstract:

A notebook computer base housing has operatively disposed therein a CD ROM drive, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive, an AC/DC electrical power converter, a modem, a PCMCIA card bay structure and a battery. This internal provision of three drive units in addition to the other equipment within the base housing is facilitated from a space standpoint by the vertical stacking of the hard disk drive atop the CD ROM drive within the base housing. To dissipate the operating heat from these components within the base housing, a heat spreader plate is interposed between the CD ROM drive and the overlying hard disk drive, and the high heat-generating componentsânamely, the modem, the AC/DC converter, the PCMCIA card bay structure, and the computer processorâare closely grouped together, with the AC/DC converter in thermal communication with a second heat spreader plate. The processor is disposed above the other high heat-generating components on a horizontally oriented main system circuit board, with the circuit board having top and bottom side heat sink members thermally communicated with the processor. An axial fan disposed in the base housing creates an upper flow of cooling air that passes over the upper heat sink member, and a lower flow of cooling air that passes over the lower heat sink member and the heat-generating components grouped below the processor.

US Patent:

6400563, Jun 4, 2002

Filed:

Sep 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/654711

Inventors:

Pasha S. Mohi - Houston TX
Chris F. Felcman - Spring TX
Neil L. Condra - The Woodlands TX
Gregory J. Mora - Tomball TX
Stacy L. Wolff - Houston TX
Chi-Tsong Chu - Taipei, TW

Assignee:

Compaq Computer Corporation - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 116

US Classification:

361683, 361695, 361707, 165122, 165125, 369 752, 369 82

Abstract:

A notebook computer base housing has operatively disposed therein a CD ROM drive, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive, an AC/DC electrical power converter, a modem, a PCMCIA card bay structure and a battery. This internal provision of three drive units in addition to the other equipment within the base housing is facilitated from a space standpoint by the vertical stacking of the hard disk drive atop the CD ROM drive within the base housing. To dissipate the operating heat from these components within the base housing, a heat spreader plate is interposed between the CD ROM drive and the overlying hard disk drive, and the high heat-generating componentsânamely, the modem, the AC/DC converter, the PCMCIA card bay structure, and the computer processorâare closely grouped together, with the AC/DC converter in thermal communication with a second heat spreader plate. The processor is disposed above the other high heat-generating components on a horizontally oriented main system circuit board with the circuit board having top and bottom side heat sink members thermally communicated with the processor. An axial fan disposed in the base housing creates an upper flow of cooling air that passes over the upper heat sink member, and a lower flow of-cooling air that passes over the lower heat sink member and the heat-generating components grouped below the processor.

US Patent:

6556441, Apr 29, 2003

Filed:

Mar 11, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/094862

Inventors:

Pasha S. Mohi - Houston TX
Chris F. Felcman - Spring TX
Neil L. Condra - The Woodlands TX
Gregory J. Mora - Tomball TX
Stacy L. Wolff - Houston TX
Chi-Tsong Chu - Taipei, TW

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 120

US Classification:

361687, 361683, 361707, 361711, 165185, 174 163

Abstract:

A notebook computer base housing has operatively disposed therein a CD ROM drive, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive, an AC/DC electrical power converter, a modem, a PCMCIA card bay structure and a battery. This internal provision of three drive units in addition to the other equipment within the base housing is facilitated from a space standpoint by the vertical stacking of the hard disk drive atop the CD ROM drive within the base housing. To dissipate the operating heat from these components within the base housing, a heat spreader plate is interposed between the CD ROM drive and the overlying hard disk drive, and the high heat-generating componentsânamely, the modem, the AC/DC converter, the PCMCIA card bay structure, and the computer processorâare closely grouped together, with the AC/DC converter in thermal communication with a second heat spreader plate. The processor is disposed above the other high heat-generating components on a horizontally oriented main system circuit board. with the circuit board having top and bottom side heat sink members thermally communicated with the processor.

US Patent:

61341045, Oct 17, 2000

Filed:

Dec 29, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/999438

Inventors:

Pasha S. Mohi - Houston TX
Chris F. Felcman - Spring TX
Neil L. Condra - The Woodlands TX
Gregory J. Mora - Tomball TX
Stacy L. Wolff - Houston TX
Chi-Tsong Chu - Taipei, TW

Assignee:

Compaq Computer Corporation - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 116
G06F 120
H05K 720

US Classification:

361683

Abstract:

A notebook computer base housing has operatively disposed therein a CD ROM drive, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive, an AC/DC electrical power converter, a modem, a PCMCIA card bay structure and a battery. This internal provision of three drive units in addition to the other equipment within the base housing is facilitated from a space standpoint by the vertical stacking of the hard disk drive atop the CD ROM drive within the base housing. To dissipate the operating heat from these components within the base housing, a heat spreader plate is interposed between the CD ROM drive and the overlying hard disk drive, and the high heat-generating components--namely, the modem, the AC/DC converter, the PCMCIA card bay structure, and the computer processor--are closely grouped together, with the AC/DC converter in thermal communication with a second heat spreader plate. The processor is disposed above the other high heat-generating components on a horizontally oriented main system circuit board, with the circuit board having top and bottom side heat sink members thermally communicated with the processor. An axial fan disposed in the base housing creates an upper flow of cooling air that passes over the upper heat sink member, and a lower flow of cooling air that passes over the lower heat sink member and the heat-generating components grouped below the processor.