Apparatus for an air impingement heat sink using secondary flow

Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Housing or package – With provision for cooling the housing or its contents

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257712, 257721, 361690, 361694, 174 161, 174 163, 165 803, H01L 2504

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053048458

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is disclosed for fluid dynamically augmenting a heat sink to displace a boundary layer in the cooling fluid adjacent to the surfaces of the heat sink cooling fins. Ribs with a thickness slightly less than the thickness of the boundary layer cause secondary flow in the cooling fluid downstream from the rib in the form of vortices which displace hotter slower moving fluid by drawing in cooler fluid farther from the surface of the fins. The ribs are constructed on the surface of the cooling fins in an inverted V-shaped configuration. The angle of the ribs in the inverted V-shaped configuration is optimized to intersect the entire flow of the fluid through the heat sink forming a means for efficient dissipating heat from the heat sink over its entire surface area.

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