Abstract: A forced air cooling apparatus having a blower for blowing air taken in from an intake surface or inlet of the blower to be blown against an electronic device in an installation wherein the blower is mounted for operation on a casing or a rack, and in which the apparatus has a flow regulating plate vertically intersecting the intake surface that is installed immediately before the intake surface. With this construction, eddy air current flow in the vicinity of the intake surface is prevented and the cooling ability obtained from the blower is optimized to thereby attain the effect that the electronic devices can be efficiently cooled without requiring the same separation distance between an intake surface of the blower and a wall surface of the frame or casing in which the blower is installed, as compared with a conventional installation of the same equipment in the same casing without the flow regulating plate.

Abstract: An electronic equipment has a cooling structure in which air discharged from heat sinks can be recovered without any leakage and compact blow ducts and discharge ducts are disposed in a narrow space. A supply opening and a discharge opening for cooling air are independently formed in a heat sink. A plurality of supply branched ducts and discharge branched ducts are combined in a comb-like shape along the axis of the ducts. Ejection openings for cooling air are formed on each of the supply branched ducts in positions corresponding to each of the heat sinks. Such ejection openings are closely connected to the supply openings for cooling air of the heat sinks. On the other hand, recovery openings for cooling air are formed on each of the refrigerant discharge ducts in a position corresponding to each of the heat sinks. Such recovery openings are closely connected to the discharge openings for gas refrigerant of the heat sinks.

Abstract: A cooling system for cooling an electronic device by allowing a cooling fluid to flow in contact with heat generating components such as LSI chips of the electronic device arranged in series along the major flow of the cooling fluid. The cooling system has heat radiation fins attached to the heat-generating components, and a cooling duct defining a cooling fluid flow passage in which assemblies composed of the heat-generating components and the heat radiation fins are disposed. The flow passage has, at the upstream end of the upstream end assembly, a cross-sectional area greater than that of the assembly when taken in a plane perpendicular to the direction of the major flow of the cooling fluid.