Patents by Inventor Patrick Francis Hanlon

Patrick Francis Hanlon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6038129
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a heat dissipative external enclosure is disclosed. The external enclosure having a containment wall from which depend extended surfaces or fins having a length extending vertically and defining channels therebetween. The thickness of the enclosure between external surfaces of opposed containment walls varying between a relatively thin portion and a relatively thick portion to provide an interior space having a relatively narrow portion and a relatively wide portion to accommodate components or units of corresponding different extent. The fins having outer edges, spaced from the containment wall, and having plain first opposed surfaces adjacent their outer edges, the first surfaces including a first angle therebetween. The fins or parts of fins adjacent the relatively thin portion of the enclosure also having plain second opposed surfaces inwards of the first surfaces, the second surfaces including therebetween a second angle greater than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Hamid Reza Falaki, William George Gates, Patrick Francis Hanlon, Martin Michael Mark Keegan, Daniel Peter Kelly