Cooling device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10917995-B2
Application number	US-201916689177-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2019
Priority date	Dec 28, 2018
Publication date	Feb 9, 2021
Grant date	Feb 9, 2021

Abstract

A cooling device includes: a cold plate; a radiator; a pump; a first tank; and a second tank. The cold plate has a first cooling medium flow passage. The radiator has fins and pipes forming a second cooling medium flow passage. The pump circulates a cooling medium. The first tank is coupled to one ends of the pipes. The second tank couples the other ends of the pipes to the pump. The radiator is disposed on the cold plate. The cold plate has a bottom wall portion, a top wall portion, a side wall portion, an internal space, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The bottom wall portion has blades, and an inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion has a first bent portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cooling device comprising:
a cold plate which has a first cooling medium flow passage in which a cooling medium flows;
a radiator which has a plurality of fins and a plurality of pipes forming a second cooling medium flow passage communicating with the first cooling medium flow passage;
a pump which circulates the cooling medium;
a first tank which is coupled to one ends of the plurality of pipes; and
a second tank which couples the other ends of the plurality of pipes to the pump, wherein
the radiator is disposed on the cold plate,
the cold plate has:
a bottom wall portion a lower face of which comes into contact with a heat-generating component;
a top wall portion which covers an upper face of the bottom wall portion;
a side wall portion which couples a peripheral portion of the bottom wall portion and a peripheral portion of the top wall portion;
an internal space which is surrounded by the bottom wall portion, the top wall portion, and the side wall portion to form the first cooling medium flow passage;
an inlet port which is disposed on one end side of the first cooling medium flow passage and into which the cooling medium flows; and
an outlet port which is disposed on the other end side of the first cooling medium flow passage and out of which the cooling medium flows,

the bottom wall portion has a plurality of blades on the upper face, and
an inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion has a first bent portion which is bent to be convex inward between one ends of the blades and the outlet port.

2. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the first bent portion is bent in a curved form in a top view.

3. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the first bent portion is disposed on both sides of the outlet port in a direction in which the blades are arranged.

4. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion has a second bent portion which is bent to be convex inward between the other ends of the blades and the inlet port.

5. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein the second bent portion is bent in a curved form in a top view.

6. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein the second bent portion is disposed on both sides of the inlet port in a direction in which the blades are arranged.

7. The cooling device according to claim 6 , wherein the second bent portions are formed symmetrically in a horizontal direction with the inlet port disposed in between in the top view.

8. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein the first cooling medium flow passage is formed to become wider in a horizontal direction as extending from the inlet port toward the other ends of the blades.

9. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the first cooling medium flow passage is formed to become narrower in a horizontal direction as extending from the one ends of the blades toward the outlet port.

10. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the side wall portion has a step portion which is depressed outward, on a lower end portion of the inner peripheral face, and
the upper face of the bottom wall portion comes into contact with a lower face of the step portion.

11. The cooling device according to claim 10 , wherein a lower end face of the side wall portion and the lower face of the bottom wall portion are formed at the same height in a vertical direction.

12. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein upper ends of the blades come into contact with the lower face of the top wall portion.

Assignees

• Nidec Corp

Inventors

• Tokeshi Toshihiko
• Nakae Nobuya
• Tamaoka Takehito

Classifications

• H10W40/226

  characterised by projecting parts, e.g. fins to increase surface area (leadframes for cooling H10W70/461) · CPC title

• H10W40/47 Primary

  by flowing liquids, e.g. forced water cooling · CPC title

• H05K7/2039

  characterised by the heat transfer by conduction from the heat generating element to a dissipating body (arrangements for increasing/decreasing heat-transfer, e.g. fins details, F28F13/00) · CPC title

• B23P15/26

  heat exchangers {or the like (making heat exchangers by methods covered by other subclasses B21D53/02)} · CPC title

• H05K7/20218 Primary

  using a liquid coolant without phase change in electronic enclosures (in cabinets of standardized dimensions H05K7/20536; in server cabinets H05K7/20709; in vehicle electronic casings H05K7/20845; in power control electronics H05K7/2089; in displays H05K7/20954) · CPC title