Abstract:
In one embodiment, an electronic system includes a printed circuit board, one or more packaged semiconductor devices, and a vapor chamber having a top and a bottom and enclosing a sealed cavity that is partially filled with a coolant. The vapor chamber comprises a thermo-conductive and electro-conductive material. The top of the vapor chamber has one or more depressions formed therein, each depression receiving and thermo-conductively connected to at least part of a bottom of a corresponding packaged semiconductor device, which is mounted through a corresponding aperture in the PCB. A heat sink may be thermo-conductively attached to the bottom of the vapor chamber.
Abstract:
An electrical assembly (11) comprises a substrate (49) having a dielectric layer (45) and one or more electrically conductive traces (46, 48) overlying the dielectric layer (45). An electrical component (44) is mounted on a first side (146) of the substrate (49). The electrical component (44) is capable of generating heat. A plurality of conductive through holes (47) in the substrate (49) are located around a perimeter of the electrical component (44). The conductive through holes (47) are connected to a conductive trace (46 or 48) for heat dissipation. A cooling cavity (26) has bores (28) that face a second side of the substrate opposite the first side. A plurality of respective compliant pins (32) are inserted into corresponding conductive through holes (47) and the bores (28), wherein a generally exposed portion of the compliant pin (32) is exposed to air or a coolant liquid within the cooling cavity (26).
Abstract:
A thermal management system for an electrical component includes a printed circuit board (PCB) capable of receiving the electrical component on a first side of the PCB. An elongate member has one end attached to a second side of the PCB, and another end disposed away from the PCB. The elongate member also has an open interior that facilitates fluid communication between the two ends. One of the ends defines an at least partially closed boundary on the PCB. The PCB includes an aperture disposed therethrough proximate the boundary such that fluid communication is facilitated between the first side of the PCB and the second side of the PCB, and along at least a portion of the elongate member.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for cooling electronics is disclosed- An encapsulated inert non- conductive fluid is used to transfer heat directly from an electrical circuit including a die on a substrate to an external heatsink. The top of a flip chip die (e.g. a ceramic column grid array flip chip) may be enclosed with a metallic cover. The metallic cover is sealed to an outer frame, which in turn is sealed to metallization on the top of the flip chip through a flexure, minimizing mechanical load imparted to the flip chip. This forms a hermetic cavity enclosing the die. This hermetic cavity is partially filled with an inert non conductive fluid, which vaporizes when heated. Condensation occurs on the inner surface of the metal cover where the heat may be conducted into the outer frame for removal (e.g. rejection from the spacecraft).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a wire-printed circuit board or card (1) comprising conductors (6) that run on and/or in the circuit board or card between connection points (4). The aim of the invention is to improve a circuit board of this type. To achieve this, at least one of the conductors (6) has a rectangular or square cross-section. In addition, at least some of the conductors have a hollow cross-section, in which a coolant or heating agent circulates.
Abstract:
According to some embodiments, a cooling device may comprise first and second contact surfaces to transfer heat to a cooling medium. The cooling device may further comprise, in some embodiments, a first electrical component coupled to transmit heat to the first contact surface and a second electrical component coupled to transmit heat to the second contact surface.
Abstract:
An apparatus including an actuation membrane unit to generate air movement in a direction of a heat generating device to reduce an ambient temperature of the device.
Abstract:
In order to produce a specific microsieve having a large number of precisely arranged passages of whatever form, a plastic foil (1) is coated with a layer of etch-resistant material (2, 2'). Recesses (4, 4') are etched in this layer (2, 2') at the locations where passages are to be formed. In a further process step, the passages (5) are produced by a plasma etching process. In addition, ducts (K, L) are inserted into the coating layer (2, 2') either as channels (K) or as solid paths. Several microsieves (S1, S2) are superimposed to form a specific composite body, oriented in such a way that the ducts (5, K, L) are cross-linked in the x, y and z directions. Examples of applications are fluid-conducting diaphragms, electroconductive multilayers and cross-linked light-guide microsystems.
Abstract:
Un assemblage électronique (48, 76) comportant un dispositif de refroidissement (10) comprend un plateau de refroidissement (12) équipé sur sa face supérieure (14) d'une pluralité de piliers refroidissement (16); une première carte à circuit imprimé (50) comportant au moins une zone génératrice de chaleur (52) en appui contre la face inférieure (22) du plateau de refroidissement (12); chaque pilier (16) comportant un moyen de ventilation (29) comprenant un moyeu (30) équipé de pales (32), les pales (32) étant agencées axialement le long de chaque pilier (16) de sorte à pouvoir tourner autour du pilier (16) créant ainsi un flux d'air de refroidissement des piliers (16).
Abstract:
The present disclosure further contemplates a system and method that cools metal core printed circuit boards by circulating a liquid coolant so that it contacts the base metal of the metal core printed circuit board. In one example the present disclosure contemplates a direct liquid cooled MCPCB system that may include a liquid cavity creating component coupled to the base plate of a MCPCB allowing a liquid coolant to come into contact with the base plate of the MCPCB for cooling of the MCPCB. The direct liquid cooled MCPCB system may minimize thermal bottlenecks between the electrical components and the cooling fluid while reducing the number of components required in previous liquid cooled electronics systems.