Abstract:
An integral cooling system for cooling a plurality of electronic components, including: a cooling fluid manifold for mounting over the plurality of electronic components; a main fluid inflow duct within the manifold for supplying pumped cooling fluid; a main fluid outflow duct within the manifold for removing pumped cooling fluid; for each respective electronic component of the plurality of electronic components: a component cooling chamber within the manifold, for application of cooling fluid to an area immediately adjacent the electronic component; a fluid supplying duct within the manifold to supply cooling fluid from the main fluid inflow duct to the chamber; and, a fluid removing duct within the manifold to remove cooling fluid from the chamber to the main fluid outflow duct. In preferred embodiments, there is a thermally-conductive slug or piston disposed between the respective electronic component and component cooling chamber to prevent direct application of a flow of the pumped cooling fluid to the respective electronic component, and to encourage uniform cooling across the respective electronic component.
Abstract:
A thermal conduction module for cooling an array of integrated circuit chips mounted on a substrate includes a moveable piston for cooling the chips, the piston having a base, urged against an upper surface of the chips, of thermally conductive material. The base has on the lower surface thereof cups or channels between adjacent rows of the chips, and, on the upper surface thereof, parallel channels directly over the chips. The piston includes members extending downward into the upper surface channels for directing a flow of coolant into the upper surface channels and impinging the coolant on the channel bottoms. The flow directing members may be plate-like baffles or nozzles. The piston also includes passages for directing coolant from one upper surface channel to an adjacent upper surface channel in a flow direction perpendicular to the axes of the upper surface channels.
Abstract:
The capability of the microbellows cooling technique to remove heat from multi-chip modules is enhanced with a highly conductive, rigid, heat spreader. The heat spreader has a planar surface urged against a planar surface of the chip by the flexible microbellows. The surface area of the heat spreader is greater than the mating surface area of the chip. The heat spreader is attached to the bottom surface of the microbellows. The surface area of the heat spreader which mates with the surface of the chip is highly polished and coated with a highly conductive soft metal. A jet of coolant is forced into the inner surface of the microbellows.
Abstract:
A semiconductor module cooling structure comprises a housing having a passage through which a cooling fluid flows; a cooling block to which the cooling fluid is supplied from the housing and which has an electrical insulating layer at the bottom portion and is combined with a semiconductor chip through the electrical insulating layer; and a bellows which is connected between the housing and the cooling block. The cooling fluid is supplied to the cooling block through the bellows. The bellows is formed in a manner such that a plurality of substantially plane ring-like metal plates are laminated, pressed, diffused, joined, and thereafter stretched and molded.
Abstract:
Embodiments include a cooling solution having a first array of fins, where the first array of fins extend vertically from the substrate, and where adjacent individual fins of the first array are separated from each other by a microchannel. A second array of fins extend vertically from the substrate, where a channel region is between the first array of fins and the second array of fins.
Abstract:
A cooling system and method for using the cooling system are described. The cooling system includes an array of cooling elements and a controller. The array of cooling elements corresponds to regions of the heat-generating structure where heat is generated in response to operation of the semiconductor. The controller is configured to activate portions of the array of cooling elements based on a determination that operation of the heat-generating structure is likely to generate heat in a given region of the heat-generating structure.
Abstract:
An air-cooling heat dissipation device is provided for removing heat from an electronic component. The air-cooling heat dissipation device includes a supporting substrate, an air pump and a heat sink. The supporting substrate includes a top surface, a bottom surface, an introduction opening and a thermal conduction plate. The thermal conduction plate is located over the top surface of the supporting substrate and aligned with the introduction opening. The electronic component is disposed on the thermal conduction plate. The air pump is fixed on the bottom surface of the supporting substrate and aligned with the introduction opening. The heat sink is attached on the electronic component. When the air pump is enabled, an ambient air is introduced into the introduction opening to remove the heat from the thermal conduction plate.
Abstract:
A cooler (1) includes: a fin (20) having a coolant inflow port (110a); and a nozzle (10) configured to eject the supplied coolant toward the coolant inflow port (110a). The nozzle (10) includes a flow passage wall (13), a tip end (14), a pressure receiving portion (16) and a deformation portion (15). The tip end (14) provides a coolant supply hole (12) that ejects the coolant flowing through the flow passage. The pressure receiving portion (16) is configured to be provided between the flow passage wall (13) and the coolant supply hole (12), and to receive force in an ejection direction of the coolant. The deformation portion (15) is configured to be provided either of between the flow passage wall (13) and the pressure receiving portion (16) and in the pressure receiving portion (16), and to displace the coolant supply hole (12) in the ejection direction of the coolant in response to the force in the ejection direction of the coolant, the force being received by the pressure receiving portion (16).
Abstract:
An apparatus including a cold plate body; a channel module disposed within the cold plate body including a channel body and a plurality of channels projecting through the channel body; and a manifold disposed on the channel module, the manifold including an inlet and an outlet and a first plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the inlet and a second plurality of apertures are in fluid communication with the outlet. A method including introducing a fluid to an integrated cold plate disposed on an integrated circuit device, the integrated cold plate comprising a cold plate body extending about the device, the fluid being introduced into a manifold in fluid communication with a channel module disposed between the manifold and a base plate, the channel module, and including channels to direct the fluid toward the base plate, and collecting the fluid returned to the manifold.
Abstract:
Effective utilization of a parallel flow air-cooled microchannel array at the micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) scale is prohibited by unfavorable flow patterns in simple rectangular arrays. The primary problem encountered is the inability of the flow stream to penetrate a sufficient depth into the fin core to achieve the desired fin efficiency. Embodiments of the present invention overcome this problem using a manifold with open nozzle discharge and integrated lateral exhaust along with a microchannel array cooler with micro spreading cavities for internal air distribution.