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CD-ROM-drive-apparatus-with-integral-forced-air-cooling-capability

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CD ROM drive apparatus with integral forced air cooling capability

Details

Inventors: Nguyen, Vu T.;
Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, TX)
Primary Examiner: Levy; Stuart S.
Assistant Examiner: Watkins; Kevin M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Konneker & Smith, P.C.

A forced flow of cooling air through a computer housing is created during operation of a specially designed CD ROM drive operatively disposed in the housing. The drive has a bladed carrying structure which supports a compact disc and is rotationally driven with the supported disc. Driven rotation of the bladed carrying structure creates the forced flow of cooling air within the housing without requiring additional space for a separate cooling fan therein. In two illustrated embodiments of the bladed carrying structure the created cooling air flow is generally parallel to the rotational axis of the compact disc, and in a third embodiment of the bladed carrying structure the created cooling air flow is generally transverse to the rotational axis.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In carrying out principles of the present invention, in accordance with a preferred embodiment thereof, a specially designed CD ROM drive is disposed in a housing portion of an electronic device, representatively the CPU housing portion of a notebook computer.
According to a key aspect of the invention, the CD ROM drive is operative, during its rotation of an associated compact disc, to create a cooling flow of air within the housing portion without requiring appreciable additional interior housing space for a separate cooling fan.
From a broad perspective, the CD ROM drive includes a carrying structure for supporting the compact disc; a drive mechanism for rotating the carrying structure, and its supported compact disc, about a rotational axis; and blade members disposed on the carrying structure and operative to create the cooling flow of air in response to rotation of the carrying structure.
The CD ROM drive of the present invention is accordingly provided, in a compact space-saving manner, with integral forced air cooling capability.
In two representative embodiments of the CD ROM drive the cooling flow of air created thereby is directed generally parallel to the drive's rotational axis, and in a third representative embodiment of the CD ROM drive the cooling flow of air created thereby is directed generally transversely to such rotational axis.
In the first representative axial air flow embodiment of the CD ROM drive, the carrying structure is generally disc-shaped and has a central circular portion for supporting the compact disc, and an annular peripheral portion positioned to outwardly circumscribe the supported compact disc.
The blade members are carried on the annular peripheral portion and are operative to force the cooling flow of air generally axially through the annular peripheral portion in response to driven rotation of the carrying structure.
The carrying structure in the second axial air flow embodiment of the CD ROM drive includes a hollow hub portion coaxially receivable in the central opening in the compact disc

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