摘要:
A design and method for fabricating a foil heat sink including a fin body, wherein the fin body includes a plurality of heat sink fins having a fin head and a fin foot and wherein the plurality of heat sink fins are disposed in a parallel fashion so as to form a plurality of horizontal channels between the plurality of heat sink fins, a fin support, wherein the fin support includes a plurality of fin support structures disposed between the plurality of heat sink fins so as to separate the plurality of heat sink fins and wherein the plurality of fin support structures are disposed adjacent to the fin head so as to form a plurality of vertical channels between the plurality of heat sink fins, and a fin base, wherein the fin base includes a plurality of fin spacers disposed between the plurality of heat sink fins so as to separate the plurality of heat sink fins and wherein the plurality of fin spacers are disposed so as to be adjacent to the fin foot.
摘要:
A cooling apparatus and method of fabrication are provided for facilitating removal of heat from a heat generating electronic device. The cooling apparatus includes a thermally conductive base having a substantially planar main surface, and a plurality of thermally conductive pin fins wire-bonded to the main surface of the thermally conductive base and disposed to facilitate the transfer of heat from the thermally conductive base. The thermally conductive base can be a portion of the electronic device to be cooled or a separate structure coupled to the electronic device to be cooled. If a separate structure, the thermally conductive base has a coefficient of thermal expansion within a defined range of a coefficient of thermal expansion of the electronic device. In one implementation, the wire-bonded pin fins are discrete, looped pin fins separately wire-bonded to the main surface and spaced less than 300 micrometers apart in an array.
摘要:
The material and geometric properties of an electrical probe contact are combined to produce an electrical contact which is capable of self-alignment over many thousands of uses. The probe contact moves substantially only in a vertical direction and provides a consistent contact force with corresponding electrical contact pads on a semiconductor wafer. The probe contacts are configured in an array of a large plurality of individual contacts which extend from a base to which they are attached through apertures in an overlying mask spaced apart from the base.
摘要:
A method of use and apparatus for a quick connect coupling in a fluid system as disclosed herein. The quick connect coupling includes a female coupling assembly and a male coupling assembly. The female coupling assembly includes a female cone housing nestable with a female cone. At least one female flow hole is formed in each of the female cone housing and female cone. The male coupling assembly has a male cone housing nestable with a male cone. At least one male flow hole is formed in each of the male cone housing, and the male cone. The at least one female flow hole rotatably misaligns to seal in a manner that fluid is contained from leaking past the female coupling assembly. The at least one male flow hole rotatably misaligns to seal in a manner that fluid is contained from leaking past the male coupling assembly. The male coupling assembly is removably rotatably insertable into the female cone. The female coupling assembly and the male coupling assembly rotatably fluidly couple to create a fluid flow path through the quick connect coupling. The female coupling assembly and the male coupling assembly rotatably fluidly uncouple, thereby sealing the fluid flow path through the quick connect coupling. The male coupling assembly and the female coupling assembly are removably uncoupleable.
摘要:
A heat sink device interconnect including a mounting device, having a mounting device top, a board stiffener, wherein the board stiffener is disposed so as to be communicated with the mounting device and a heat sink device compressingly disposed between the mounting device top and the board stiffener, wherein the heat sink device includes a top plate, a bottom plate and a heat sink fin compressingly disposed between the top plate and the bottom plate. A method for implementing a heat sink device interconnect including obtaining an electronic module, a printed circuit board and a heat sink device interconnect having a heat sink device, an interconnect device, a mounting device and a board stiffener, arranging the electronic module, the printed circuit board and the heat sink device interconnect such that the electronic module and the printed circuit board is disposed between the board stiffener and the heat sink device and adjusting the mounting device so as to cause the electronic module to become compressingly associated with the printed circuit board.
摘要:
A vapor condenser is provided which includes a three-dimensional folded structure which defines, at least in part, a set of coolant-carrying channels and a set of vapor condensing channels, with the coolant-carrying channels being interleaved with and extending parallel to the vapor condensing channels. The folded structure includes a thermally conductive sheet with multiple folds in the sheet. One side of the sheet is a vapor condensing surface, and the opposite side of the sheet is a coolant-cooled surface, with at least a portion of the coolant-cooled surface defining the coolant-carrying channels, and being in contact with coolant within the coolant-carrying channels. The vapor condenser further includes, in one embodiment, a top plate, and first and second end manifolds which are coupled to opposite ends of the folded structure and in fluid communication with the coolant-carrying channels to facilitate flow of coolant through the coolant-carrying channels.
摘要:
A cooling apparatus and method of fabrication are provided for facilitating removal of heat from a heat-generating electronic device. The method of fabrication includes: obtaining a solder material; disposing the solder material on a surface to be cooled; and reflowing and shaping the solder material disposed on the surface to be cooled to configure the solder material as a base with a plurality of fins extending therefrom. In addition to being in situ-configured on the surface to be cooled, the base is simultaneously metallurgically bonded to the surface to be cooled. The solder material, configured as the base with a plurality of fins extending therefrom, is a single, monolithic structure thermally attached to the surface to be cooled via the metallurgical bonding thereof to the surface to be cooled.
摘要:
A cooled electronic module and method of fabrication are provided employing a cooling apparatus for removing heat from one or more electronic devices disposed on a substrate. The cooling apparatus includes a supply manifold structure having a plurality of inlet orifices for injecting coolant onto a surface to be cooled, and a return manifold structure. The return manifold structure, which is fabricated of a thermally conductive material, has a base surface sealed to the surface to be cooled along a periphery thereof employing a thermally conductive, coolant-tight seal. The return manifold structure provides at least one return passageway for exhausting coolant after impinging on the surface to be cooled, wherein coolant exhausting through the at least one passageway cools the return manifold structure, thereby facilitating further cooling of the surface to be cooled in a region where the base surface is sealed to the surface to be cooled.
摘要:
A hybrid cooling system and method of fabrication are provided for a multi-component electronics system. The cooling system includes an air moving device for establishing air flow across at least one primary and at least one secondary heat generating component to be cooled; and a liquid-based cooling subsystem including at least one cold plate, physically coupled to the at least one primary heat generating component, and a thermally conductive coolant-carrying tube in fluid communication with the at least one cold plate. A thermally conductive auxiliary structure is coupled to the coolant-carrying tube and includes a plurality of thermally conductive fins extending from a surface thereof. The plurality of thermally conductive fins are disposed at least partially over the at least one secondary heat generating component to be cooled, and provide supplemental cooling of at least a portion of the air flow established across the multiple components of the electronics system.
摘要:
A coolant flow drive apparatus is provided for facilitating removal of heat from a cooling structure coupled to a heat generating electronics component. The coolant flow drive apparatus includes a turbine in fluid communication with a primary coolant flowing within a primary coolant flow loop, and a pump in fluid communication with a secondary coolant within a secondary coolant flow path. The secondary fluid flow path is separate from the primary coolant flow path. The flow drive apparatus further includes a magnetic coupling between the turbine and the pump, wherein the turbine drives the pump through the magnetic coupling to pump secondary coolant through the secondary coolant flow path.