Abstract: An electronic system comprising a plurality of circuit boards and/or drives mounted in a stack within a housing. Interconnectors are provided between the circuit boards and/or drives to connect the circuit boards and/or drives and to provide vertical separations between the circuit boards and/or drives. A cooling fan is slidably disposed adjacent a wall of the housing to create a horizontal stream of air that flows through the separations and over the top and bottom surfaces of the circuit boards and/or the drives. This provides for convective cooling in an efficient manner, while minimizing the profile of the electronic system.

Abstract: A LAN connection monitoring system and method are provided. The system includes a plurality of LAN connection terminals for connecting the system to a plurality of workstations and transmitting binary signals between the system and the workstations. The system further includes a display for displaying activity information of LAN connection terminals, signal detection means for detecting any binary signal transmission at each of the LAN connection terminals, calculating means for calculating a transfer rate of the binary signal transmission at a LAN connection terminal, signal relaying means for relaying the detected binary signal transmission to the calculating means, and displaying means for displaying the calculated transfer rate and/or activity information on the display.

Abstract: An electronic system comprising a plurality of circuit boards and/or drives mounted in a stack within a housing. Interconnectors are provided between the circuit boards and/or drives to connect the circuit boards and/or drives and to provide vertical separations between the circuit boards and/or drives. A cooling fan is slidably disposed adjacent a wall of the housing to create a horizontal stream of air that flows through the separations and over the top and bottom surfaces of the circuit boards and/or the drives. This provides for convective cooling in an efficient manner, while minimizing the profile of the electronic system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a system and method for compensating for variations in the temperature of the liquid crystal medium of a LCD panel to maintain a desired contrast level. According the embodiments of the invention, one or more temperature sensors, such as thermistors, may measure the temperature of ambient air in contact with one or more surfaces of the LCD panel. The voltage applied to selected pixels of the LCD panel may be altered based upon the temperature measured by the temperature sensor(s). The temperature sensor(s) may be thermally uncoupled from the LCD panel itself.