US 11,815,965 B2
Cooler with wireless charging function for mobile electronic device
Seunghoon Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Yongbum Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Jihong Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sangwoo Park, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Minchang Shim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sangwon Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sungbok Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Changhyung Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Hanshil Choi, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jan. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/567,326.
Application 17/567,326 is a continuation of application No. 16/726,401, filed on Dec. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,243,583.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0168490 (KR), filed on Dec. 24, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0019577 (KR), filed on Feb. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0121253 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 1/20 (2006.01); H02J 50/40 (2016.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/20 (2013.01) [H02J 7/0068 (2013.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H02J 50/40 (2016.02); H05K 7/20136 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooler mounted on an electronic device, the electronic device including a front surface on which a display area is formed and a rear surface opposite the front surface, the cooler comprising:
a housing including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a third surface surrounding an interior space between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the first surface includes a seating area on which the rear surface of the electronic device is seated and a recess area spaced apart from the rear surface of the electronic device by a predetermined gap; and
a fan disposed in the interior space of the housing and including a rotary shaft formed in a direction toward the first surface from the second surface,
wherein the recess area includes a bottom surface spaced apart from the rear surface of the electronic device by the predetermined gap and at least one inner wall formed between the bottom surface and the seating area, the at least one inner wall having a first ventilation slot formed through the at least one inner wall in a first direction toward the fan disposed in the interior space of the housing,
wherein the third surface has a second ventilation slot formed through the third surface in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and toward the fan disposed in the interior space of the housing, and
wherein the fan is configured to introduce air outside the housing into the interior space of the housing through the second ventilation slot and discharge the air to a space between the rear surface of the electronic device and the bottom surface through the first ventilation slot.