Liquid Coolant Patents (Class 257/714)
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Patent number: 9142484Abstract: An integrated power module includes a substantially planar insulated metal substrate having at least one cut-out region; at least one substantially planar ceramic substrate disposed within the cut-out region, wherein the ceramic substrate is framed on at least two sides by the insulated metal substrate, the ceramic substrate including a first metal layer on a first side and a second metal layer on a second side; at least one power semiconductor device coupled to the first side of the ceramic substrate; at least one control device coupled to a first surface of the insulated metal substrate; a power overlay electrically connecting the at least one semiconductor power device and the at least one control device; and a cooling fluid reservoir operatively connected to the second metal layer of the at least one ceramic substrate, wherein a plurality of cooling fluid passages are provided in the cooling fluid reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eladio Clemente Delgado, John Stanley Glaser, Brian Lynn Rowden
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Patent number: 9136201Abstract: Disclosed are a hybrid heat sink and a hybrid heat sink assembly for a power module. The hybrid heat sink comprises a base provided with at least one power module on one side thereof, a first heat dissipation unit being a first heat dissipation fin group which is composed of a plurality of heat dissipation fins intervally arranged and is located on the other side of the base, and a second heat dissipation unit comprising a plurality of heat pipes and a second heat dissipation fin group. Each of the heat pipes comprises an evaporating section provided in the base and close to the power module, a condensing section, and an adiabatic section located between the evaporating section and the condensing section and comprises an extension portion and a folding portion, the second heat dissipation fin group is provided on the condensing sections.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Aixing Tong, Teng Liu, Jianping Ying
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Patent number: 9131631Abstract: Enhanced heat transfer assemblies and jet impingement cooling apparatuses having target surfaces with surface fins and microslots are disclosed. In one embodiment, an enhanced heat transfer assembly includes a target surface, a plurality of surface fins extending from the target surface, and a plurality of microslot matrices formed on the target surface. Each microslot matrix includes individual microslots positioned adjacent to each other, and each microslot matrix is adjacent to a jet impingement zone and at least one of the plurality of surface fins. Jet impingement cooling apparatuses and power electronics modules having an enhanced heat transfer assembly with surface fins and matrices of microslots are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Shailesh N. Joshi
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Patent number: 9109985Abstract: An ECU executes a program including the steps of: obtaining a first temperature Ta of a first semiconductor element; obtaining a second temperature Tb of a third semiconductor element; determining that it is in a normal state in which clogging has not occurred, when a rotating speed Nm2 of a second MG is more than a threshold value Nm2 and the magnitude of a difference between the first temperature Ta and the second temperature Tb is less than a threshold value ?T; and determining that the clogging of a foreign matter has occurred in a predetermined site when the magnitude of the difference between the first temperature Ta and the second temperature Tb is equal to or more than the threshold value ?T.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Osamu Kitazawa
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Patent number: 9111911Abstract: A heat sink includes a flow path through which a cooling medium that cools a heat-producing body flows, the flow path having two flow path wall surfaces that face each other; and a plurality of columnar fins provided on one of the flow path wall surfaces, which is positioned at a side where the heat-producing body is provided, the plurality of columnar fins including a long columnar fin and a short columnar fin, and the other of the flow path wall surfaces having a recess in which a distal end portion of the long columnar fin is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshikazu Niimi, Masatsugu Takarabe, Masaya Kaji, Takanori Kawashima
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Patent number: 9099426Abstract: One embodiment includes a power module. The power module includes a power switching device, at least one spot cooler and a base cooler. The at least one spot cooler and base cooler are configured to lower an average surface junction temperature and to isothermalize the surface junction temperature of the power switching device. The at least one spot cooler is embedded in at least one of a heat sink base or base cooler of the power module, and the at least one of the heat sink base or base cooler are attached onto a double side metalized substrate that is attached to the power switching device. In one embodiment, the power module further includes a trench structure cut into the double side metalized substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARKInventors: F. Patrick McCluskey, Avram Bar-Cohen, Peng Wang
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Patent number: 9101079Abstract: A cooling unit includes a radiator, a rigid supply pipe connected to the radiator, and a refrigerant that is air-cooled by the radiator flows, a plurality of open nozzles provided at the supply pipe to correspond to the respective plurality of heat-generating components, a plurality of heat receiving units that are mounted to the respective plurality of heat-generating components and connected to the respective open nozzles, and allow a refrigerant supplied from the open nozzles to flow through internal channels, and a plurality of return pipes each of which is provided for each of the heat receiving units and joined to the heat receiving unit, and returns the refrigerant discharged from the heat receiving unit to the radiator, wherein the respective heat receiving units are connected to the supply pipe to be relatively displaceable, and the respective return pipes are connected to one another in series and relatively displaceably.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Nobumitsu Aoki, Takeshi Nishiyama, Takashi Urai, Masumi Suzuki, Michimasa Aoki, Jie Wei, Fumihiro Tawa, Yoshinori Uzuka
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Patent number: 9082743Abstract: A package includes a first die and a second die underlying the first die and in a same first die stack as the first die. The second die includes a first portion overlapped by the first die, and a second portion not overlapped by the first die. A first Thermal Interface Material (TIM) is over and contacting a top surface of the first die. A heat dissipating lid has a first bottom surface contacting the first TIM. A second TIM is over and contacting the second portion of the second die. A heat dissipating ring is over and contacting the second TIM.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Wensen Hung, Szu-Po Huang, Kim Hong Chen, Shin-Puu Jeng
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Patent number: 9072197Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a case in which a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed inside, and an element module partially disposed within the refrigerant passage and including an element provided inside. A portion of the element module in contact with the refrigerant is formed of an insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahito Murata
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Patent number: 9056663Abstract: A Variable Speed Drive (1) for subsea installations (20), subsea vessels or subsea vehicles, as well as to a corresponding subsea installation (20), subsea vessel or subsea vehicle, has an alternating current/alternating current converter (2) having a current-controlled capacitor-less direct current link (7).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Ove Bø
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Patent number: 9046305Abstract: A phase change type heat dissipating device for dissipating heat from a heat generating component includes a casing, a working medium received in the casing and a heat pipe connected to the casing. The heat pipe includes an evaporator section and a condenser section. The working medium is electrically insulated and phase change material, and represents solid state at normal temperature. The heat generating component is received in the casing, and the evaporator section of the heat pipe extends into the casing and contacts the working medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Rung-An Chen
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Patent number: 9041194Abstract: The pressure unit includes a spring member that is formed into a coil form obtained by winding a wire rod and that has a periodically changing pitch angle and a housing member to which end portions of the spring member are attached, and the pressure unit pressurizes a semiconductor stacked unit obtained by alternately stacking a semiconductor element module and a cooling tube that makes contact with the semiconductor element module and cools the semiconductor element module.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noritoshi Takamura, Michiya Masuda, Ichiro Sasuga, Nobuharu Kato, Kengo Tsurugai
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Patent number: 9041183Abstract: A double sided cooled power module package having a single phase leg topology includes two IGBT and two diode semiconductor dies. Each IGBT die is spaced apart from a diode semiconductor die, forming a switch unit. Two switch units are placed in a planar face-up and face-down configuration. A pair of DBC or other insulated metallic substrates is affixed to each side of the planar phase leg semiconductor dies to form a sandwich structure. Attachment layers are disposed on outer surfaces of the substrates and two heat exchangers are affixed to the substrates by rigid bond layers. The heat exchangers, made of copper or aluminum, have passages for carrying coolant. The power package is manufactured in a two-step assembly and heating process where direct bonds are formed for all bond layers by soldering, sintering, solid diffusion bonding or transient liquid diffusion bonding, with a specially designed jig and fixture.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Zhenxian Liang, Laura D. Marlino, Puqi Ning, Fei Wang
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Patent number: 9042100Abstract: An assembly for cooling heat generating components, such as power electronics, computer processors and other devices. Multiple components may be mounted to a support and cooled by a flow of cooling fluid. A single cooling fluid inlet and outlet may be provided for the support, yet multiple components, including components that have different heat removal requirements may be suitably cooled. One or more manifold elements may provide cooling fluid flow paths that contact a heat transfer surface of a corresponding component to receive heat.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Aavid Thermalloy, LLCInventor: Sukhvinder S. Kang
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Patent number: 9041195Abstract: A method of forming an on-chip heat sink includes forming a device on a substrate. The method also includes forming a plurality of insulator layers over the device. The method further includes forming a heat sink in at least one of the plurality of insulator layers and proximate to the device. The heat sink includes a reservoir of phase change material having a melting point temperature that is less than an upper limit of a design operating temperature of the chip.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mattias E. Dahlstrom
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Patent number: 9035452Abstract: An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes a die having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The die has at least one circuit element positioned on its first surface. At least one micro-channel is defined in the second surface of the die. The integrated circuit device includes a cooling substrate attached to the second surface of the die. At least one fluid routing channel is defined in the cooling substrate. The at least one fluid routing channel is connected to the at least one micro-channel defined in the die. Additionally, the cooling substrate has at least one valve positioned within the at least one fluid routing channel. The at least one valve is configured to autonomously regulate a flow rate of a cooling fluid flowing through the at least one fluid routing channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stanton Earl Weaver, Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock
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Patent number: 9030822Abstract: A cooling system is operable to facilitate cooling a power module or other electronic assembly. The cooling system may be configured to facilitate cooling a DC/AC inverter or other electronic assembly where two power modules may be arranged in an opposing relationship relative to a coolant passageway. The opposing relationship may be suitable to minimizing a packaging size and footprint required to facilitate interacting both power modules with the coolant flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Nadir Sharaf, Yu Qin, Reshma Rathod, Richard J. Hampo
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Patent number: 9030823Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat dissipation system for a power module, including: first cooling medium flow parts and second cooling medium flow parts allowing cooling media to flow in first and second directions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwang Soo Kim, Do Jae Yoo, Young Ho Sohn, Bum Seok Suh, In Wha Jeong
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Publication number: 20150123260Abstract: To efficiently cool an IC chip and a transmission module disposed on the same substrate, amounting structure of transmission module of the present invention includes a motherboard, a package substrate mounted on the motherboard, an IC chip and a plurality of connectors disposed on amounting surface of the package substrate, a plurality of transmission modules connected to the plurality of connectors, and module cooling members having a plurality of slits provided along an connector array direction. The connectors are disposed inside the slits of module cooling members, and the transmission modules can be connected to and disconnected from the connectors disposed through the slits. The transmission modules connected to the connectors are in contact with inside surfaces of the slits and thermally connected to the cooling members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Yoshinori SUNAGA, Yoshiaki ISHIGAMI, Kinya YAMAZAKI, Akihiro HIRUTA
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Publication number: 20150102480Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a cooler in which, by improving the shape of the connecting portions of an inlet/outlet of a coolant or the like, the pressure loss in the connecting portion or the like can be reduced. A cooler 20 of a semiconductor device 1 includes: an inlet 27 and an outlet 28 provided on side walls 22b1, 22b2 of a case 22 opposing to each other at diagonal positions; an introduction path 24 which is connected to the inlet 27 and formed in the case 22; a discharge path 25 which is connected to the outlet 28 and formed in the case 22; and a cooling flow channel 26 between the introduction path 24 and the discharge path 25. The height of the opening of the inlet 27 is larger than the height of the introduction path 24, and a connecting portion 271 between the inlet 27 and the introduction path 24 includes an inclined surface 271b which is inclined from the bottom surface of the connecting portion 271 toward the longitudinal direction of the introduction path 24.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaki NAKAGAWA, Daisuke TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro MAEDA, Hiromichi GOHARA, Akira MOROZUMI, Takeshi ICHIMURA
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Publication number: 20150097281Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device is a power semiconductor module of a liquid-cooled type, which substantially prevents a cooling liquid from leaking out without providing additional working on a casing and without a providing high precision in a process for forming a sealing member and a groove for fitting the sealing member. The semiconductor device has a groove for fitting a sealing member that is formed not at the casing but at the base plate. The sealing member and the groove have widths that bring the sealing member made of an elastic material into contact with side surfaces of the groove intermittently.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichiro ADACHI
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Patent number: 8995129Abstract: A back metal layer (16, 31) has a plurality of stress relaxation spaces (17). Each stress relaxation space (17) is formed to open at least at one of the front surface and the back surface of the back metal layer (16, 31). A region in the back metal layer (16, 31) that is directly below a semiconductor device (12) is defined as a directly-below region (A1), and a region outside the directly-below region (A1) that corresponds to and has the same dimensions as the directly-below region (A1) is defined as a comparison region (A21). The volume of the stress relaxation spaces (17) in the range of the directly-below region (A1) is less than the volume of the stress relaxation spaces (17) formed in the range of the comparison region (A21).Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Showa Denko K. K.Inventors: Yoshitaka Iwata, Shogo Mori, Tomoya Hirano, Kazuhiko Minami
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Patent number: 8994168Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a wiring board; a semiconductor chip mounted on the wiring board; and a radiation plate mounted on the semiconductor chip, including an insulating member including a resin that is the same as a resin included in the wiring board, as a main constituent, a first metal foil formed on a first surface of the insulating member, a second metal foil formed on a second surface of the insulating member, the second surface being an opposite to the first surface, the radiation plate being provided with a through hole that penetrates the first metal foil, the insulating member and the second metal foil, and a metal layer formed to cover the inner surface of the through hole to thermally connect the first metal foil and the second metal foil by penetrating the insulating member in a thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yukio Sato
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Patent number: 8987893Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus that comprises a connection circuit situated within a substrate and configured to communicatively couple a first integrated circuit disposed adjacent to a top surface of the apparatus to a second integrated circuit disposed adjacent to a bottom surface of the apparatus. The apparatus further comprises one or more enclosed heat dissipation structures situated within the substrate and configured to convey heat away from the first and second integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Sehat Sutardja, Albert Wu
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Patent number: 8987891Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a heat sink apparatus for cooling a semiconductor device includes: (a) a rigid support ring having a top surface and a bottom surface; (b) a thermally conductive bottom sheet having a top and a bottom surface, wherein the top surface of the sheet is attached to the bottom surface of the rigid support ring; and (c) a channel for cooling fluid formed by a volume contained by the rigid support ring, the sheet, and an enclosure; wherein the sheet is held in tension by the rigid support ring, thereby reducing the macroscopic coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the sheet. In use, thermally induced mechanical stress in a semiconductor device attached to the bottom surface of the sheet may be ameliorated by the reduction in macroscopic CTE, thereby increasing reliability of an assembly as it is cycled in temperature during normal operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Centipede Systems, Inc.Inventor: Thomas H. Di Stefano
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Patent number: 8982558Abstract: A cooling device for a power module having an electronic module disposed on a base plate via a substrate is disclosed. The cooling device includes a heat sink plate having at least one cooling segment. The cooling segment includes an inlet plenum for entry of a cooling medium, a plurality of inlet manifold channels, a plurality of outlet manifold channels, and an outlet plenum. The plurality of inlet manifold channels are coupled orthogonally to the inlet plenum for receiving the cooling medium from the inlet plenum. The plurality of outlet manifold channels are disposed parallel to the inlet manifold channels. The outlet plenum is coupled orthogonally to the plurality of outlet manifold channels for exhaust of the cooling medium. A plurality of millichannels are disposed in the base plate orthogonally to the inlet and the outlet manifold channels. The plurality of milli channels direct the cooling medium from the plurality of inlet manifold channels to the plurality of outlet manifold channels.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard Alfred Beaupre, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, William Dwight Gerstler, Xiaochun Shen
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Patent number: 8981556Abstract: Jet impingement cooling apparatuses having non-uniformly sized jet orifices for producing an array of impingement jets that impinge a target surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling apparatus includes at least one fluid inlet channel, at least one fluid outlet channel, a target surface, and a jet orifice surface that is offset from the target surface. The jet orifice surface includes an array of jet orifices fluidly coupled to the at least one fluid inlet channel, wherein each individual jet orifice of the array of jet orifices has an area corresponding to a distance of the individual jet orifice to the at least one fluid outlet channel such that individual jet orifices closer to the at least one fluid outlet have an area that is smaller than individual jet orifices further from the at least one fluid outlet. Power electronics modules are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Shailesh N. Joshi
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Publication number: 20150061112Abstract: A power semiconductor device comprising a power semiconductor module and a heat sink and a method for its manufacture. The heat sink has a first cooling housing component, with a cutout passing therethrough, and a second cooling housing component, with a cooling plate arranged in the cutout. The first and second cooling housing components are configured and arranged relative to one another so that a cavity is formed at the side of the cooling plate facing away from the power semiconductor components. The cooling plate is connected to the first cooling housing component by a first weld seam which extends circumferentially therearound. The first weld seam seals the cooling plate in relation to the first cooling housing component, and the second cooling housing component is connected to the first cooling housing component. The inventive power semiconductor device has good heat conduction from the power semiconductor components to a heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Ingo BOGEN, Markus BECK, Hartmut KULAS, Alexander POPESCU, Reinhard HELLDÖRFER
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Publication number: 20150061111Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a base plate having an upper surface on which the semiconductor element is mounted, a cooling fin disposed on a lower surface of the base plate, a jacket disposed in a sealing manner on the lower surface of the base plate, the jacket surrounding the cooling fin, and a header partition wall formed separately from the jacket and fixed to the jacket on the lower side of the cooling fin in the jacket, the header partition wall forming a header and a flow path for causing a refrigerant flow to the cooling fin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Miho NAGAI, Yuji IMOTO, Osamu USUI
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Patent number: 8957517Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a package and a cooler. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor element, a metal member, and a molding member for encapsulating the semiconductor element and the metal member. The metal member has a metal portion thermally connected to the semiconductor element, an insulating layer on the metal portion, and a conducting layer on the insulating layer. The conducting layer is at least partially exposed outside the molding member and serves as a radiation surface for radiating heat of the semiconductor element. The cooler has a coolant passage through which a coolant circulates to cool the conducting layer. The conducting layer and the cooler are electrically connected together.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kuniaki Mamitsu, Takahisa Kaneko, Masaya Tonomoto, Masayoshi Nishihata, Hiroyuki Wado, Chikage Noritake, Eiji Nomura, Toshiki Itoh
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Patent number: 8953317Abstract: Cooling apparatuses and methods are provided for immersion-cooling one or more electronic components. The cooling apparatus includes a housing at least partially surrounding and forming a fluid-tight compartment about the electronic component(s) and a dielectric fluid disposed within the fluid-tight compartment, with the electronic component(s) immersed within the dielectric fluid. A vapor-condenser and one or more wicking components are also provided. The vapor-condenser includes a plurality of thermally conductive condenser fins extending within the fluid-tight compartment, and the wicking component(s) is disposed within the fluid-tight compartment in physical contact with at least a portion of one or more thermally conductive condenser fins of the thermally conductive condenser fins extending within the compartment.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Robert E. Simons
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Patent number: 8953319Abstract: A heat-dissipating module applied to a circuit board having an electronic element is disclosed. The heat-dissipating module includes a plurality of connecting portions, a contacting portion and a folded portion. The heat-dissipating module is connected to the circuit board by the connecting portions, and a first surface of the contacting portion contacts the electronic element. The folded portion is connected to the contacting portion. The heat-dissipating module is suitable for a thin and light electronic device and has firm structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Asustek Computer Inc.Inventor: Cheng-Yu Wang
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Patent number: 8944150Abstract: A heat dissipating device includes a chamber with an evaporation portion and a condensation portion, the chamber including a refrigerant. The chamber further includes an evaporation portion scraping brush provided corresponding to the evaporation portion, the evaporation portion scraping brush being able to sweep relative to an inner surface of the evaporation portion. A refrigerant liquid film is formed on the inner surface of the evaporation portion. Since the fluid refrigerant is uniformly applied to an inner surface of the evaporation portion to form a liquid film, the heat dissipating ability of the heat pipe heat dissipating device is improved, and the heat dissipating uniformity of the heat pipe heat dissipating device is enhanced. A heat dissipating method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Hao Wang
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Patent number: 8946889Abstract: A semiconductor module is provided which includes a semiconductor unit which is made by a resin mold. The resin mold has formed therein a coolant path through which a coolant flows to cool a semiconductor chip embedded in the resin mold. The resin mold also includes heat spreaders, and electric terminals embedded therein. Each of the heat spreaders has a fin heat sink exposed to the flow of the coolant. The fin heat sink is welded to a surface of each of the heat spreaders through an insulator, thus minimizing an electrical leakage from the heat spreader to the coolant.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Chikage Katou, Hiroaki Arai, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Yasuou Yamazaki, Naoki Sugimoto, Yasuyuki Sakai
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Patent number: 8941232Abstract: The mechanisms for forming metal bumps to connect to a cooling device (or a heat sink) described herein enable substrates with devices to dissipate heat generated more efficiently. In addition, the metal bumps allow customization of bump designs to meet the needs of different chips. Further, the usage of metal bumps between the semiconductor chip and cooling device enables advanced cooling by passing a cooling fluid between the bumps.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: You-Hua Chou, Yi-Jen Lai, Chun-Jen Chen, Perre Kao
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Publication number: 20150021755Abstract: A stacked package includes a substrate, and a first structure bonded to the substrate. The first structure has a plurality of bumps, and a first hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of the first structure. The stacked package further includes a second structure bonded to the plurality of bumps. The first hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of the second structure. The first structure is between the second structure and the substrate. The stacked package further includes a housing, wherein the housing defines a volume enclosing the first structure and the second structure. A second hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of an inner surface of the housing. The stacked package further includes a cooling fluid within the volume enclosing the first structure and the second structure. A top surface of the cooling fluid is above a top surface of the second structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Yi-Li HSIAO, Li-Yen LIN, Chih-Hang TUNG
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Publication number: 20150021756Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, semiconductor elements and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a heat radiation substrate, fins, and a cooling case of a box-like shape that accommodates the fins and has a bottom wall and side walls. An introducing port and a discharge port for a cooling liquid are provided diagonally in a pair of side walls provided along the longitudinal direction of the assembly of the fins, among the side walls of the cooling case. A diffusion wall facing the introducing port is provided inside the cooling case.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichiro ADACHI
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Patent number: 8937385Abstract: An electronic component comprising a substrate extending in a plane, having electrical connections to connect the component to a circuit, and having an upper face; an electronic chip arranged on the upper face or inside the substrate and connected to the connections via the substrate, a thick insulating layer forming a package and covering the upper face or at least part of the chip, and having an outer face parallel to the plane; a cavity inside the thick layer, the cavity having a bottom parallel to the plane and a side extending from the bottom to the outer face, the cavity having heat-absorbing material inside that is different from the material forming the thick layer. The heat-absorbing material has a specific heat capacity greater than 1 kJKg?1K?1 at a 25° C. and at 100 kPa. Either a bottom or side of the cavity is covered with a interface layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlernativesInventors: Haykel Ben Jamaa, Xavier Baillin, Emmanuel Ollier, Ulrich Soupremanien
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Patent number: 8937810Abstract: Cooled electronic assemblies, and a method of decoupling a cooled electronic assembly, are provided. In one embodiment, the assembly includes a coolant-cooled electronic module with one or more electronic components and one or more coolant-carrying channels integrated within the module and configured to facilitate flow of coolant through the module for cooling the electronic component(s). In addition, the assembly includes a coolant manifold structure detachably coupled to the electronic module. The manifold structure, which includes a coolant inlet and outlet in fluid communication with the coolant-carrying channel(s) of the electronic module, facilitates flow of coolant through the coolant-carrying channel, and thus cooling of the electronic component(s). Coolant-absorbent material is positioned at the interface between the electronic module and the manifold structure to facilitate absorbing any excess coolant during a stepwise detaching of the manifold structure from the electronic module.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Evan G. Colgan, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Werner Escher, Ingmar G. Meijer, Stephan Paredes, Gerd Schlottig, Martin Witzig, Jeffrey A. Zitz
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Patent number: 8937384Abstract: At least one feature pertains to an apparatus having passive thermal management that includes an integrated circuit die, a heat spreader thermally coupled to the integrated circuit die, a phase change material (PCM) thermally coupled to the heat spreader, and a molding compound that encases the heat spreader and the PCM. In one example, the heat spreader may include a plurality of fins, and at least a portion of the PCM is interposed between the plurality of fins. Another feature pertains to an apparatus that includes an integrated circuit die, and a molding compound having a phase change material intermixed therein. The resulting molding compound completely encases the die.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Zhongping Bao, James D. Burrell, Liang Cheng
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Patent number: 8937383Abstract: The semiconductor package as well as a method for making it and using it is disclosed. The semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor chip having at least one heat-generating semiconductor device and a volumetrically expandable chamber disposed to sealingly surround the semiconductor chip, the volumetrically expandable chamber filled entirely with a non-electrically conductive liquid in contact with the semiconductor device and circulated within the volumetrically expandable chamber at least in part by the generated heat of the at least one semiconductor device to cool the at least one semiconductor device.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
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Patent number: 8937390Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a mounting substrate, a semiconductor element provided above said mounting substrate, a package substrate provided above said mounting substrate with said semiconductor element therebetween and electrically connected to said semiconductor element via a primary connecting bump, a liquid cooling module cooling said semiconductor element by a liquid refrigerant, in which a heat receiving section of the liquid cooling module is disposed between said semiconductor element and said mounting substrate, and a plurality of secondary connecting bumps provided between said package substrate and said mounting substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: PS4 Luxco S.a.r.l.Inventors: Nae Hisano, Shigeo Ohashi, Yasuo Osone, Yasuhiro Naka, Hiroyuki Tenmei, Kunihiko Nishi, Hiroaki Ikeda, Masakazu Ishino, Hideharu Miyake, Shiro Uchiyama
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Patent number: 8934250Abstract: Cooling apparatuses and methods are provided for pumped immersion-cooling of selected electronic components of an electronic system, such as a node or book of a multi-node rack. The cooling apparatus includes a housing assembly defining a compartment about the component(s) to be cooled, which is coupled to a first side of a printed circuit board. The assembly includes a first frame with an opening sized to accommodate the component(s), and a second frame. The first and second frames are sealed to opposite sides of the board via a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer, respectively. The printed circuit board is at least partially porous to a coolant to flow through the compartment, and the first frame, second frame, and first and second adhesive layers are non-porous with respect to the coolant, and provide a coolant-tight seal to the first and second sides of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
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Publication number: 20150008574Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate; a semiconductor element mounted on the insulating substrate; and a cooler cooling the semiconductor element. The cooler includes a heat radiating substrate bonded to the insulating substrate; a plurality of fins provided on a surface opposite to a surface bonded with the insulating substrate of the heat radiating substrate; and a case accommodating the fins, and including an inlet and an outlet for a coolant. Upper end portions of side walls of the case include cutaways to arrange end portions of the heat radiating substrate. The heat radiating substrate is liquid-tightly bonded to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Hiromichi GOHARA, Akira MOROZUMI, Takafumi YAMADA
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Patent number: 8929074Abstract: Electronic device assemblies employing dual phase change materials and vehicles incorporating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device assembly includes a semiconductor device having a surface, wherein the semiconductor device operates in a transient heat flux state and a normal heat flux state, a coolant fluid thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device, and a phase change material thermally coupled to the surface of the semiconductor device. The phase change material has a phase change temperature at which the phase change material changes from a first phase to a second phase. The phase change material absorbs heat flux at least when the semiconductor device operates in the transient heat flux state.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Ercan Mehmet Dede
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Patent number: 8929080Abstract: A method is provided for pumped immersion-cooling of selected electronic components of an electronic system, such as a node or book of a multi-node rack. The method includes providing a housing assembly defining a compartment about the component(s) to be cooled, which is coupled to a first side of a printed circuit board. The assembly includes a first frame with an opening sized to accommodate the component(s), and a second frame. The first and second frames are sealed to opposite sides of the board via a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer, respectively. The printed circuit board is at least partially porous to a coolant to flow through the compartment, and the first frame, second frame, and first and second adhesive layers are non-porous with respect to the coolant, and provide a coolant-tight seal to the first and second sides of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Milnes P. David, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
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Patent number: 8921702Abstract: In one possible implementation, a thermal plane structure includes a non-wicking structural microtruss between opposing surfaces of a multilayer structure and a thermal transport medium within the thermal plane structure for fluid and vapor transport between a thermal source and a thermal sink. A microtruss wick is located between the opposing surfaces and extends between the thermal source and the thermal sink.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: William B. Carter, Peter D. Brewer, Adam F. Gross, Jeffrey L. Rogers, Keith V. Guinn, Alan J. Jacobsen
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Patent number: 8917507Abstract: A cooling device is provided. The cooling device is equipped with an electronic substrate on which a heating element has been mounted, and comprises a thermal diffusion unit of a plate-like shape. A front surface of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a first circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. A rear face of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a second circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. And, the thermal diffusion unit diffuses heat from the heating element according to vaporization and condensation principles of a refrigerant sealed therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventor: Hideo Nagasawa
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Patent number: 8916964Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of producing the same, wherein a joining member and a joined member are bonded by means of brazing in a way such that no voids are left inside the joining layer. The semiconductor device comprises a joined member and a joining member which is joined to the joined member by means of brazing. The joined member is provided with a through hole which is open on the joining surface with the joining member, and a path communicating with the through hole is provided on at least one of the joining surface of the joining member with the joined member or the joining surface of the member with the joining member.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuji Taketsuna, Eisaku Kakiuchi, Katsuhiko Tatebe, Masahiro Morino, Tomohiro Takenaga
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Patent number: RE45376Abstract: In one embodiment, a cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system comprises: a cooling channel for receiving a cooling media, a substrate disposed near the cooling channel, and a fluidic jet disposed within the substrate and in fluid communication with the cooling channel. The cooling channel is for thermal communication with a component to be cooled. The cooling channel has a height of less than or equal to about 3 mm and a width of less than or equal to 2 mm. The fluidic jet comprises a cavity defined by a well and a membrane. In one embodiment, a method of cooling an electrical component comprises: passing a cooling media through a cooling channel, drawing the cooling media into one or more of the fluidic jets, expelling the cooling media from the one or more fluidic jets into the cooling channel, and removing thermal energy from the electrical component.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mehmet Arik, Todd Garrett Wetzel, Stephen Adam Solovitz