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An arrangement and method for enhancing the cooling capacity of portable personal computers. More particularly, there is provided to the provision of an arrangement for increasing the cooling capacity of portable personal computers, particularly such as laptop or notebook computers. The computer pos

An arrangement and method for enhancing the cooling capacity of portable personal computers. More particularly, there is provided to the provision of an arrangement for increasing the cooling capacity of portable personal computers, particularly such as laptop or notebook computers. The computer possesses a keyboard having the rear edge thereof hingedly connected with the bottom of an openable display unit or panel, and containing heat-generating computer electronics, from which heat is removed through a heat pipe terminating in a coupling arrangement possessing elements which connect to and disconnect from each other when, respectively, docking and undocking the portable personal computer in a docking station so as to facilitate the transference of heat from the portable personal computer through the coupling arrangement into the docking station from whence the heat is dissipated to the surroundings through the intermediary of a heat sink.

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[ Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:] [1.] An arrangement for enhancing the cooling capacity of a portable personal computer through the transfer of heat therefrom to a docking station having said computer docked therein; comprising:

[ Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:] [1.] An arrangement for enhancing the cooling capacity of a portable personal computer through the transfer of heat therefrom to a docking station having said computer docked therein; comprising:(a) said portable personal computer having at least one heat pipe having a first end thermally connected to heat generating means in said computer and an opposite end terminating in a first coupling element of a coupling device;(b) a second coupling element of said coupling device being mounted on said docking station; and heat dissipating means in said docking station being thermally connected to said second coupling element, said second coupling element being engageable with said first coupling element for the transfer of heat therethrough from said at least one heat pipe to said heat dissipating means for dissipating the heat to ambient air; and(c) said first coupling element comprising a socket member including a bore for fixedly receiving said opposite end of said at least one heat pipe; and a conical recess being formed in said first coupling element adjacent said bore for receiving said second coupling element.