Heat exchange – With retainer for removable article – Electrical component
Patent
1997-06-02
2000-02-22
Atkinson, Christopher
Heat exchange
With retainer for removable article
Electrical component
16510433, 165185, 257715, 257796, 361687, 361700, 361709, 361710, F28F 700
Patent
active
060268883
ABSTRACT:
In a portable notebook computer a specially designed heat pipe-based heat exchanger assembly is used to efficiently dissipate heat from a processor board in the computer's base housing to ambient air surrounding the computer. The heat exchanger assembly includes a graphite fiber-filled outer heat exchanger body which includes a finned first portion that is exposed to the exterior of the base housing, and a second portion disposed within the base housing and thermally coupled to the processor board. The outer heat exchanger body is directly overmolded onto a thermosyphoning heat pipe having first and second longitudinal portions respectively encapsulated within the first and second outer heat exchanger portions. During computer operation, processor heat is conducted to the second heat pipe portions and is transmitted via the balance of the heat pipe to the finned outer heat exchanger portion for dissipation to ambient. The exposed fin edges of the first outer heat exchanger may have a layer of lower thermal conductivity plastic material suitably placed thereon to serve as a touch guard structure for the exposed portion of the heat exchanger structure.
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Atkinson Christopher
Compaq Computer Corporation
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