Boiling (evaporative) Liquid Patents (Class 257/715)
  • Patent number: 7944688
    Abstract: A heat dissipating structure for a heat source includes a position-adjusting unit, a first heat dissipating element, a second heat dissipating element and a first heat conducting element. The position-adjusting unit has an elastic element. The first heat dissipating element is connected with the position-adjusting unit. The second heat dissipating element contacts with the heat source. One end of the first heat conducting element contacts with the first heat dissipating element, and the other end of the first heat conducting element contacts with the second heat dissipating element. The position-adjusting unit adjusts the position of the first heat dissipating element relative to the second heat dissipating element by the elastic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Ama Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Hsueh-Lung Cheng, Ming-Feng Tsai
  • Patent number: 7928563
    Abstract: Three dimensional integrated circuits with microfluidic interconnects and methods of constructing same are provided. According to some embodiments, and microfluidic integrated circuit system can comprise a plurality of semiconductor die wafers each having a top and bottom exterior surface. The semiconductor die wafers can form a stack of die wafers. The die wafers can comprise one or more channels formed through the die wafers. The channels can extend generally between top and bottom exterior surfaces of the semiconductor die wafers. A plurality of micro-pipes can be disposed between adjacent semiconductor die wafers in the stack. The micro-pipes can enable the channels to be in fluid communication with each other. A barrier layer can be disposed within at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes. The barrier layer can be adapted to prevent a coolant flowing through the at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes from leeching into the channels and micro-pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Muhannad S. Bakir, Deepak Sekar, Bing Dang, Calvin King, Jr., James D. Meindl
  • Patent number: 7924564
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an integrated antenna structure comprises a plurality of radiating elements, cooling channels embedded directly within each of the plurality of radiating elements, a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet. Each of the plurality of radiating elements receive or transmit electromagnetic energy. The cooling channels are formed by an internal surface of the radiating elements. The fluid inlet and the fluid outlet are in communication with each of the cooling channels. Each of the cooling channels provides a heat exchanging function by receiving at least a portion of a fluid coolant from the fluid inlet, transferring a least a portion of the thermal energy from the respective radiating element to the received portion of the fluid coolant, and dispensing of at least a portion of the received fluid coolant out of the cooling channel to the fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: James S. Wilson
  • Patent number: 7916482
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a loop heat pipe including a fluid circulating channel containing fluid, includes: an evaporating portion configured to vaporize the fluid by heat from a heat generating component; a condensing portion configured to liquefy the vaporized fluid; a first fluid channel connecting the evaporating portion and the condensing portion, the vaporized fluid flowing through the first fluid channel; a second fluid channel connecting the evaporating portion and the condensing portion, the fluid liquefied by the condensing portion flowing through the second fluid channel; a liquid accumulating portion formed on an inner wall of the second fluid channel, and provided between the evaporating portion and the condensing portion, the liquid accumulating portion being configured to accumulate the liquid liquefied by the condensing portion; and a wick provided between the evaporating portion and a position where the liquid accumulating portion is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Tomonao Takamatsu
  • Patent number: 7911052
    Abstract: The formation of electronic assemblies is described. In one embodiment, an electronic assembly includes a semiconductor die and a plurality of spaced apart nanotube structures on the semiconductor die. The electronic assembly also includes a fluid positioned between the spaced apart nanotube structures on the semiconductor die. The electronic assembly also includes a endcap covering the plurality of nanotube structures and the fluid, wherein the endcap is positioned to define a gap between the nanotube structures and an interior surface of the endcap. The endcap is also positioned to form a closed chamber including the working fluid, the nanotube structures, and the gap between the nanotube structures and the interior surface of the endcap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Unnikrishnan Vadakkanmaruveedu, Gregory Martin Chrysler, James G. Maveety
  • Patent number: 7907407
    Abstract: A heat dissipating device is designed with calm, efficient, and space economy performance includes a housing (1) having an exhaust (10), and an intake (32). A fan (4) disposed inside the housing (1) is relative to the intake (32). A set of fins (10) disposed inside the housing (1) is relative to the exhaust (10). Said fan (4) is rotated to circulate cooling air into the set of fins (6), and expel hot air absorbed by the fins out of the exhaust. A first heat pipe (5) is disposed on an inner wall of the housing (1) relative to the fan (4). The first heat pipe (5) has a condensing portion at one end encircles most of the fan; an evaporating portion at the other end extends to the inner wall of the housing, where a heat-generating electronic component is located, is thermally connected to the set of fins (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Chidae Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Te Ho
  • Patent number: 7876563
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a power semiconductor device includes a cooling water passage and a plurality of fins. The cooling water for cooling the power semiconductor device flows through the cooling water passage. The plurality of fins are provided on a path of the cooling water passage and set up with a spacing therebetween in a direction orthogonal to a flow direction of the cooling water. The plurality of fins promote heat exchange between the power semiconductor device and the cooling water. The plurality of fins have ends facing the upstream side of a cooling water flow. The end of at least one fin among the plurality of fins is arranged so as to be displaced to a more upstream side of the cooling water flow than the ends of the fins adjacent to both sides of the at least one fin. By such a configuration, there is provided a cooling structure of a power semiconductor device and an inverter with excellent cooling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenjiro Shiba
  • Patent number: 7872349
    Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement and method of fabricating the integrated circuit arrangement is provided. At least one integrated electronic component is arranged at a main area of a substrate. The component is arranged in the substrate or is isolated from the substrate by an electrically insulating region. Main channels are formed in the substrate and arranged along the main area. Each main channel is completely surrounded by the substrate transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis. Transverse channels are arranged transversely with respect to the main channels. Each transverse channel opens into at least one main channel. More than about ten transverse channels open into a main channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Volker Lehmann, Reinhard Stengl, Herbert Schaefer
  • Patent number: 7870890
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base for thermally engaging with an electronic device, a fin assembly including of multiple fins, a first heat pipe and a second heat pipe. The first heat pipe includes two evaporation sections engaged in the base, two interconnecting condensation sections parallel to the evaporation sections and respectively thermally inserted in a central portion of the fin assembly, and two connecting sections interconnecting corresponding condensation sections and the evaporation sections. The second heat pipe includes two evaporation sections engaged in the base, two interconnecting condensation sections parallel to the evaporation sections and respectively thermally inserted in an upper portion of the fin assembly far away from the base, and two connecting sections interconnecting corresponding condensation sections and evaporation sections of the second heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 7866375
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base (10), a plurality of fins (20), first and second heat pipes (30), (40), a fan holder (50) and a fan (60) secured to the fan holder. The first heat pipe includes a heat-receiving section (32) and two heat-discharging sections (34). The second heat pipe includes an evaporating portion (42) and two condensing portions (44). The condensing portions of the second heat pipe extend into the fins and are disposed adjacent to opposite ends of each of the fins. One heat-discharging section extends in the fins and is disposed between the condensing portions, thus allowing heat absorbed from the base to be evenly distributed throughout the fins by the heat-discharging sections and the condensing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shi-Wen Zhou, Chun-Chi Chen, Bao-Chun Chen
  • Patent number: 7866376
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base for contacting an electronic device, a fin set thermally contacting the base, a first heat pipe and a second heat pipe connecting the base and the fin set. The fin set has a bottom larger than the base and an upper portion apart from the bottom thereof. The first heat pipe has a flat top face thermally contacting the bottom of the fin set, including a first transferring portion thermally engaging with the base and a second transferring portion extending from the first transferring portion and projecting beyond the base. The second heat pipe includes an evaporation portion thermally engaging with the base and a condensation portion extending from the evaporation portion and engaging with the upper portion of the fin set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Jiang, Dong-Bo Zheng, Meng Fu, Chun-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 7866043
    Abstract: A method of flatting evaporating section of a heat pipe embedded in a heat dissipation device includes the following steps: (a) providing at least a heat pipe and a base of the heat dissipation device to be thermally connected with the heat pipe, the base defining at least a groove for embedding the heat pipe therein; (b) positioning an evaporating section of the heat pipe on the groove of the base; (c) pressing the evaporating section of the heat pipe to embed the evaporating section into the groove of the base with a partial uneven surface of the evaporating section protruding out of the base; (d) flatting the protruded uneven surface of the evaporating section by polishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignees: Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd., CPUMATE Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Wen-Jung Liu, Chih-Hung Cheng, Ken Hsu
  • Patent number: 7852630
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base, a first heat pipe, a first heat sink, a second heat pipe, a thermoelectric cooler and a second heat sink. The first heat pipe includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first heat pipe is connected to the base. The second end of the first heat pipe is connected to a bottom of the first heat sink. The second heat pipe includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the second heat pipe is connected to the base. The second end of the second heat pipe is connected to a top end of the thermoelectric cooler. The second heat sink is mounted on a bottom of the thermoelectric cooler and located at a side of the first heat sink. The thermoelectric cooler spaces apart from the heat generating member. As such, the water generated by the thermoelectric cooler during a cooling process won't spread to the heat generating member and a short circuit of the heat generating member can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cooler Master Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Chun Cheng
  • Patent number: 7843694
    Abstract: An electronic device having a heat-dissipating module includes a housing and an electronic component (e.g., a central processing unit) disposed within the housing. The heat-dissipating module is used for dissipating heat of the electronic component, and includes a two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop and a thermoelectric cooling component. The two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop can be a loop heat pipe (LHP) or a capillary pumped loop (CPL). The thermoelectric cooling component includes a cooling portion and a heat-generating portion respectively to cool or heat necessary portions of the two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop, or directly cool the electronic component through the cooling portion, thereby increasing the heat-dissipation effect of the two-phase flow heat-dissipating loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chuan Yi Liang, Ming Chang Wu
  • Patent number: 7819556
    Abstract: A device, comprising (a) a chamber having a liquid disposed therein, (b) an LED array having a first surface which is in contact with said liquid, and (c) at last one actuator adapted to dislodge vapor bubbles from said first surface through the emission of pressure vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nuventix, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel N. Heffington, Raghavendran Mahalingam, Lee M. Jones, Stephen Darbin
  • Patent number: 7817424
    Abstract: A heat sink assembly includes an air duct, a heat sink and a fan. The air duct defines an air guiding channel therein. The heat sink is configured to contact a heat source to dissipate heat from a heat source. The heat sink includes a plurality of heat pipes. The heat sink is placed on one side of the air guiding channel, and the heat pipes contacts the air duct to transmit heat to the air duct. The fan is placed on the other side of the air guiding channel to communicate with the heat sink via the air duct. The fan forces air to flow through the air guiding channel to the heat sink to dissipate heat on the air duct and the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Ling Jiang, Zhi-Jiang Yao, Ning-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 7787248
    Abstract: A multi-fluid cooling system and methods of fabrication thereof are provided for removing heat from one or more electronic devices. The cooling system includes a multi-fluid manifold structure with at least one first fluid inlet orifice and at least one second fluid inlet orifice for concurrently, separately injecting a first fluid and a second fluid onto a surface to be cooled when the cooling system is employed to cool one or more electronic devices, wherein the first fluid and the second fluid are immiscible, and the first fluid has a lower boiling point temperature than the second fluid. When the cooling system is employed to cool the one or more electronic devices and the first fluid boils, evolving first fluid vapor condenses in situ by direct contact with the second fluid of higher boiling point temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Roger R. Schmidt, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 7782620
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a semiconductor package including a resin substrate and a die mounted on the resin substrate, a printed circuit board on which the semiconductor package is mounted, and a heat receiving plate that has an area larger than an area of the die. The heat receiving plate has a concave portion that corresponds to a surface of the die at a normal temperature. The concave portion is provided with a pasty heat conductive agent. The heat receiving plate is thermally connected to the semiconductor package via the pasty heat conductive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Tomomi Murayama
  • Patent number: 7781884
    Abstract: The density of components in integrated circuits (ICs) is increasing with time. The density of heat generated by the components is similarly increasing. Maintaining the temperature of the components at reliable operating levels requires increased thermal transfer rates from the components to the IC package exterior. Dielectric materials used in interconnect regions have lower thermal conductivity than silicon dioxide. This invention comprises a heat pipe located in the interconnect region of an IC to transfer heat generated by components in the IC substrate to metal plugs located on the top surface of the IC, where the heat is easily conducted to the exterior of the IC package. Refinements such as a wicking liner or reticulated inner surface will increase the thermal transfer efficiency of the heat pipe. Strengthening elements in the interior of the heat pipe will provide robustness to mechanical stress during IC manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer Kumar Ajmera, Phillip D. Matz, Stephan Grunow, Satyavolu Srinivas Papa Rao
  • Patent number: 7770630
    Abstract: A modular capillary pump loop (CPL) cooling system and associated components. The modular CPL cooling system transfers heat from high-power circuit components, such as microprocessors disposed within computer chassis, to other locations within or external to the chassis, where the heat can be more easily removed. In various embodiments, the CPL cooling system includes one or more evaporators connected to one or more condensers via flexible liquid transport and vapor transport lines. A wicking structure, such as a volume of sintered copper, is disposed within each condenser. The wicking structure draws working fluid (e.g., water) in a liquid state into the evaporator based on a capillary mechanism and a pressure differential across a meniscus/vapor interface on an upper surface of the wicking structure. As the liquid meniscus is evaporated, additional fluid is drawn into the evaporator. The working fluid is then condensed back into a liquid in the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jason B. Chesser, Barrett M. Faneuf, Stephen W. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 7768783
    Abstract: Embodiments for cooling electronic modules are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, an electronic module is inserted into a cooling sled that is equipped with a bay. The bay of the cooling sled is equipped with a pair of sides to retain the electronic module. The electronic module contains a working fluid that is sealed inside the module with one or more electronic components. During the operation of the electronic module, the working fluid is vaporized by the heat generated by the one or more electronic components. The electronic module is then cooled via the cooling sled. The cooling of the electronic module condenses the working fluid that is vaporized by the heat generated by the one or more electronic components. The condensed cooling fluid is then returned to the one or more electronic components via a wick structure that is also sealed in the electronic module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James T. Kajiya, J. Turner Whitted, David W. Williams
  • Patent number: 7746641
    Abstract: A radiation device for computer or electric appliances includes a heat inhalant block under a CPU of a computer, a heat transmission block positioned next to the heat inhalant block, a bridge block, a peltier device and a cooling source block sequentially disposed on the top of the heat transmission block with a bridge block engaged therebetween, a transparent cover covering the top of the cooling source block to form a left and a right flow canals therein, an upper heat radiation module superimposed a lower heat radiation module positioned next to the heat transmission block, a fan on the top of the upper heat radiation module, a set of the heat pipes extended from the heat inhalant block to the lower heat radiation module through the heat transmission block, a pair of lateral pipes connected between the bridge block and the lower heat radiation module and a set of the cold pipes connected between the cooling source block and the upper heat radiation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventor: Yuan-Hsin Sun
  • Patent number: 7746642
    Abstract: A heat sink for cooling an electronic component includes a lower plate, an upper plate, an upper fin set and a lower fin set respectively fixed on the upper plate and the lower plate, and a plurality of heat pipes sandwiched between the upper plate and the lower plate. The lower plate forms a protrusion projecting downwardly therefrom. A bottom surface of the protrusion is milled to be flat and smooth, whereby the bottom surface can intimately contact the electronic component. A method for manufacturing the heat sink comprising milling a bottom surface of a protrusion punched downwardly from a lower plate, whereby the bottom surface can be flat and smooth sufficiently to have an intimate contact with an electronic component, and sequentially welding an upper plate on the lower plate and a plurality of fins on the lower plate and the upper plate, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Yuan Lai, Zhi-Yong Zhou, Cheng-Tien Lai
  • Patent number: 7746638
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a first component generating heat, a second component to be heated, a heating part configured to heat the second component, and a case containing the first component, the second component, and the heating part. The second component is heated with the heating part and the heat generated by the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takawa, Noboru Izuhara, Mitsuru Yumoto
  • Publication number: 20100133685
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
  • Patent number: 7726145
    Abstract: A temperature control unit for an electronic component and a handler apparatus, which are excellent in responsibility during cooling and heating, is obtained. The temperature control unit for an electronic component includes a cooling cycle device having a refrigerant passage circulating through a compressor, a condenser, an expander, and an evaporator; a thermally conductive block having an outer surface capable of coming in contact with the electronic component that is an object to be temperature-controlled, where an inner surface corresponding to the outer surface is placed opposite to the outer surface so as to be brought in contact with or apart from the evaporator; at least one first heater for heating the thermally conductive block; and a compressed air feeding circuit for feeding compressed air between facing surfaces of the evaporator and the thermally conductive block to part them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7714433
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a semiconductor package having a plurality of fan blades embedded within a first surface of the package, where a first group of the fan blades extend from a first side of the package and a second group of the fan blades extend from a second side of semiconductor package. The fan blades may be powered by piezoelectric devices to cause motion of the fan blades. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edoardo Campini, Javier Leija, William Handley
  • Patent number: 7709951
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and assemblies for enhancing heat transfer in electronic components using a flexible thermal pillow. The flexible thermal pillow has a thermally conductive material sealed between top and bottom conductive layers, with the bottom layer having a flexible reservoir residing on opposing sides of a central portion of the pillow that has a gap. The pillow may have roughened internal surfaces to increase an internal surface area within the pillow for enhanced heat dissipation. In an electronic assembly, the central portion of the pillow resides between a heat sink and heat-generating component for the thermal coupling there-between. During thermal cycling, the flexible reservoir of the pillow expands to retain thermally conductive material extruded from the gap, and then contracts to force such extruded material back into the gap. An external pressure source may contact the pillow for further forcing the extruded thermally conductive material back into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William L. Brodsky, Peter J. Brofman, James A. Busby, Bruce J. Chamberlin, Scott A. Cummings, David L. Edwards, Thomas J. Fleischman, Michael J. Griffin, IV, Sushumna Iruvanti, David C. Long, Jennifer V. Muncy, Robin A. Susko
  • Patent number: 7705342
    Abstract: The present invention is a MEMS-based two-phase LHP (loop heat pipe) and CPL (capillary pumped loop) using semiconductor grade silicon and microlithographic/anisotrophic etching techniques to achieve a planar configuration. The principal working material is silicon (and compatible borosilicate glass where necessary), particularly compatible with the cooling needs for electronic and computer chips and package cooling. The microloop heat pipes (?LHPâ„¢) utilize cutting edge microfabrication techniques. The device has no pump or moving parts, and is capable of moving heat at high power densities, using revolutionary coherent porous silicon (CPS) wicks. The CPS wicks minimize packaging thermal mismatch stress and improves strength-to-weight ratio. Also burst-through pressures can be controlled as the diameter of the coherent pores can be controlled on a sub-micron scale. The two phase planar operation provides extremely low specific thermal resistance (20-60 W/cm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: University of Cincinnati
    Inventors: H. Thurman Henderson, Ahmed Shuja, Srinivas Parimi, Frank M. Gerner, Praveen Medis
  • Patent number: 7701721
    Abstract: An easily disassembling cooling apparatus is assembled onto a circuit board. The circuit board has an electronic element. The cooling apparatus includes a pair of fastening blocks, one or two heat conducting blocks, a heat pipe, a fastening plate, and a plurality of locking elements. The fastening blocks are fastened onto the circuit board and each has a track slot. The heat conducting block is installed between the fastening blocks and contacts the electronic element. One end of the heat pipe is installed with the heat conducting block. The fastening plate is installed in the track slots of the fastening blocks, and has a flexible arm that flexibly presses onto the heat pipe. Each of the locking elements respectively is combined with the fastening block. Thereby, the welding process is not required in the assembling process. The electronic element is reliably cooled, and the assembling time is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cooler Master Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 7701719
    Abstract: A thermal module includes a heat sink (20), a heat pipe (10) and a fastening device (100). The heat pipe has a condenser section (14) connected with the heat sink. The fastening device includes a base member (50) for fixing an evaporator section of the heat pipe, a positioning pole (58) disposed on and connected to the base member, and an elastic member (30). The positioning pole includes a neck (580) and a head (582). The elastic member includes an abutting portion (32) defining therein a positioning hole (320), and two locking portions (34) extending from the abutting portion. The neck of the positioning pole is freely and loosely received in the positioning hole of the abutting portion. A maximal outer diameter of the head of the positioning pole exceeds a diameter of the fixing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Hsien Chen, Rung-An Chen
  • Patent number: 7697293
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first heat sink, a second heat sink juxtaposed with the first heat sink and a plurality of heat pipes thermally connecting the first heat sink and the second heat sink. The first heat sink includes a plate-like spreader used for contacting with a first electric component and a honeycomb-like first fin unit thermally attached on the spreader. The spreader is a flat heat pipe. The heat pipes each include a flat plate-shaped evaporating section sandwiched between the spreader and the first fin unit of the first heat sink and a condensing section extending in the second heat sink. Due to a provision of the honeycomb-like first fin unit, the heat dissipation area of the first heat sink greatly increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xue-Wen Peng, Rui-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 7694727
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base for contacting an electronic device. Two first heat pipes are arranged on and thermally engaged with the base for absorbing heat from the electronic device and spread the heat to the base. Each of the two first heat pipes is sinuous and defines two U-shaped portions on the base. Two second heat pipes are thermally engaged with the base for absorbing heat from the electronic device and spreading the heat to the base. Each of the two second heat pipes has a first section located at a corresponding one of the two U-shaped portions on the base. A fin set is located on the base for dissipating heat in the base to ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-An Yang, Meng Fu, Chun-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 7679911
    Abstract: An electronic component or assembly that is assembled within a case that is designed to operate as a liquid phase to gas phase heat pipe where the electronic component or assembly is introduced into a liquid or partially liquid partially gaseous environment; whereby said liquid evaporates into a gas absorbing heat energy and transferring it to and through the component's or assembly's case. The case will be engineered out of materials that do not contaminate the liquid and electronics with ions and will be engineered to include a plurality of chambers/towers that extend in various directions providing enhanced heat pipe functionality in any physical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventor: Robert J Rapp
  • Patent number: 7665511
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat exchanger assembly having a housing which defines a boiling chamber extending along an axis between opposite ends. A plurality of first condensing tubes extend axially and downwardly in one direction at a first predetermined angle to and below the axis (A) from the housing and a plurality of second condensing tubes extend axially and upwardly in the opposite direction at the same predetermined angle to and above the axis (A) from the housing. The volume of refrigerant in the housing is greater than the volume of the second condensing tubes and the volume of the boiling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohinder Singh Bhatti, Ilya Reyzin, Shrikant Mukund Joshi
  • Publication number: 20100038660
    Abstract: System, method, and apparatus for two phase cooling in light-emitting devices are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a two-phase cooling apparatus coupled to the light-emitting device. The coupling of the two-phase cooling apparatus and the light-emitting device is operatively configured such that thermal coupling between the light-emitting device and the two-phase cooling apparatus enables, when, in operation, heat generated from the light-emitting device to be absorbed by a substance of a first phase in the two-phase cooling apparatus to convert the substance to a second phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Progressive Cooling Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmed Shuja
  • Patent number: 7663883
    Abstract: A heat transfer mechanism for dissipating heat from a heat generating body to a heat dissipating part, realizing both a high elasticity and a high thermal conductivity, comprised of a film-shaped heat conductor for transferring heat to the heat dissipating part and an elastic member for imparting elasticity to the film-shaped heat conductor, the film-shaped heat conductor being formed from metal foil-type flexible heat pipes or carbon-based thermal conductive sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Shirakami, Naoya Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Iino, Yoshiaki Tada, Satoshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 7661465
    Abstract: A cooling system for removing heat from a heat generating component, includes a base (100) and a heat sink (200) mounted on the base. The base includes a lower portion and a higher portion surrounding the lower portion. The lower portion and the higher portion cooperatively define a space (18) receiving working fluid therein. The heat sink defines an evaporating passage (252) and two condensing passages (254) located at two opposite sides of the evaporating passage. These passages are in fluid communication with the space. Cooperatively the space and the passages define a loop for circulating the working fluid therein. The working fluid has a phase change for dissipating heat generated by a heat-generating electronic component. A wick structure (400) is received in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Yang, Che-Cheng Hu
  • Patent number: 7661463
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a boiling chamber containing working fluid therein. The chamber includes a bottom wall for contacting with a heat generating component and a cover hermetically connected with the bottom wall. The cover includes a top wall and a bulge formed at a periphery thereof. The bulge includes a pair of spaced side walls, one of the side walls connecting with the top wall and the other of the side walls connecting with the bottom wall. A buffering region is formed between the side walls, which is capable of absorbing agitation wave generated by boiling fluid to thereby allow the boiling fluid to be capabling of continuously and stably contacting with and exchanging heat from the top wall of the boiling chamber when the fluid boils. A heat sink is arranged on the cover of the boiling chamber for transferring heat from the boiling chamber to environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tay-Jian Liu
  • Patent number: 7661466
    Abstract: A heat sink assembly (100) for cooling a heat-generating electronic component, includes a base plate (32), a plurality of fins (50) mounted on the base plate and a heat pipe (20) thermally connecting the base plate and the fins. The fins are parallel to the base plate and include a bottom fin (40) supporting the fins on the base plate. The bottom fin includes a plurality of supporting tabs (422) engaging with the base plate and separating a body (42) of the bottom fin from the base plate. The bottom fin can be used not only for dissipating heat into a surrounding environment but also for reinforcing the whole strength of the heat sink assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Yi-Qiang Wu
  • Patent number: 7663230
    Abstract: A method of forming channels on a die or other substrate. Also disclosed are liquid cooling systems including such channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shriram Ramanathan, Chin Chang Cheng, Alan M. Myers
  • Patent number: 7656025
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew G. Laquer, Ernest E. Bunch
  • Patent number: 7652372
    Abstract: A microchannel cooling system used to cool integrated circuits may include a number of microchannels which may be subject to bubble blockage. When bubble formation or nucleation occurs due to heating, the bubbles may become trapped within the microchannels. A valve within the microchannel may automatically operate, at least partially, to close off the microchannel, allowing the bubble to be freed and to be flushed from the channel in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Terry J. Dishongh, Jason T. Cassezza, Kevin S. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 7642644
    Abstract: A package for a semiconductor chip or other heat producing device has a supporting substrate to which the devices mount and electrically connect. An enclosure is formed over the heat producing devices and filled with a supercritical fluid that transports heat from the devices to a heat sink in thermal contact with the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Wendy L. Wilkins, Barry K. Gilbert, Bruce R. Kline
  • Patent number: 7626261
    Abstract: A wafer stacked semiconductor package (WSP) having a vertical heat emission path and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The WSP comprises a substrate on which semiconductor chips are mounted; a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked vertically on the substrate; a cooling through-hole formed vertically in the plurality of semiconductor chips, and sealed; micro holes formed on the circumference of the cooling through-hole; and a coolant filling the inside of the cooling through-hole. Accordingly, the WSP reduces a temperature difference between the semiconductor chips and quickly dissipates the heat generated by the stacked semiconductor chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joong-Hyun Baek, Hee-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 7609520
    Abstract: A heat spreader includes a bottom wall (12) and a cover (14) hermetically connected to the bottom wall. Cooperatively the bottom wall and the cover define a space (11) therebetween for receiving a working fluid therein. A wick structure (15) is received in the space and thermally interconnects the bottom wall and the cover. The wick structure includes at least a carbon nanotube array, which can conduct heat from the bottom wall to the cover and draw condensed liquid of the working fluid from the cover toward the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Shen Chang, Juei-Khai Liu, Chao-Hao Wang, Hsien-Sheng Pei
  • Patent number: 7599414
    Abstract: A laser apparatus (100) has a semiconductor laser device (12a to 12c), coolant jetting means (24), and a heatsink (18a to 18c). The semiconductor laser device has a light output surface (50) for emitting laser light. The coolant jetting means has a coolant chamber (53) for accommodating a coolant, an inflow port (54) communicating with the coolant chamber, and a jet port (25) opposing the light output surface of the laser device. The heatsink has a laser mount surface (36) for mounting the semiconductor laser device, and a flow path (68a to 68c) where the coolant (56) jetted from the jet port flows in. When the coolant chamber is fed with the coolant, the jet port jets the coolant onto the light output surface of the semiconductor laser device. Since the light output surface is directly cooled by a jet flow of the coolant, cooling efficiency is excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Miyajima, Hirofumi Kan
  • Patent number: 7592697
    Abstract: A microelectronic package comprises a chip stack (110) that includes a substrate (111), a first die (112) over the substrate and a second die (113) over the first die, a first underfill layer (114) between the substrate and the first die, and a second underfill layer (115) between the first die and the second die. The microelectronic package further comprises a fluidic microchannel system (120) in the chip stack, and the fluidic microchannel system comprises a fluid inlet (121) and a fluid outlet (122) connected to each other by a fluidic passage (123).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Leonel R. Arana, Michael W. Newman, Je-Young Chang
  • Patent number: 7593232
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided with a housing, a circuit board section and a heat transfer member. The circuit board section is accommodated in the housing. The circuit board section includes a heat generating component, a heat receiving region thermally connected to the heat generating component and a heat radiating region having a lower temperature than the heat receiving region while the apparatus is operating. The heat transfer member includes a first end portion attached in the heat receiving region and a second end portion attached in the heat radiating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Daisuke Maehara
  • Patent number: 7580262
    Abstract: A heat dissipation assembly mounted to a main board in a blade server includes a graphics card, a heat sink, and a thermal board. The graphics card includes a GPU and a plurality of first graphics memory chips mounted on a top thereof, and a plurality of second graphics memory chips mounted on a bottom thereof. The heat sink for cooling the GPU and the first graphics memory chips, includes a base attached to the top of the graphics card, a finned part fixed to a top of the base, and a heat pipe sandwiched between the base and the finned part. A pathway of the heat pipe passes over the GPU and at least part of the first graphics memory chips of the graphics card. The thermal board is mounted to the bottom of the graphics card for cooling the second graphics memory chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Der Chou, Yao-Tin Chang