Vapor chamber

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10973151-B2
Application number	US-202016842931-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2020
Priority date	Apr 28, 2017
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

A vapor chamber that includes a casing, a pillar in an internal space of the casing and that supports the casing from an inside thereof, a working fluid in the internal space of the casing, and recessed portions in at least a portion of a main external surface of the casing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vapor chamber comprising:
a casing having first and second opposed sheets that are sealed together and define an internal space, the first sheet having a main external surface, at least a portion of the main external surface having a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of flat portions arranged alternately with the plurality of recessed portions;
a plurality of pillars in the internal space of the casing and positioned so as to support the casing from inside thereof, at least one pillar of the plurality of pillars having a surface overlapping at least one recessed portion of the plurality of recessed portions and at least one flat portion of the plurality of flat portions in a plan view of the vapor chamber, and the surface having a shape conforming to that of the at least one flat portion and to that of the at least one recessed portion overlapping with the surface; and
a working fluid in the internal space of the casing.

2. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of flat portions extend orthogonal to a depth direction of an adjacent recessed portion of the plurality of recessed portions.

3. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein at least a second flat portion of the plurality of flat portions is positioned between adjacent pillars of the plurality of pillars in the plan view of the vapor chamber.

4. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the casing further has a main internal surface opposing the main external surface, at least a portion of the main internal surface opposite to the recessed portions having protruding portions.

5. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the main external surface is a first main external surface, and the plurality of recessed portions are first recessed portions, a first of the two opposed sheets includes the first recessed portions, a second of the two opposed sheets forms a second main external surface, at least a portion of the second main external surface having at least one second recessed portion.

6. The vapor chamber according to claim 5 , wherein the first of the two opposed sheets further has a first main internal surface opposing the first main external surface, at least a portion of the first main internal surface opposite to the first recessed portions having first protruding portions, and wherein the second of the two opposed sheets forms a second main internal surface, at least a portion of the second main internal surface opposite to the second recessed portions having second protruding portions.

7. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one wick in the internal space of the casing.

8. The vapor chamber according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one wick is interposed between a main internal surface of the casing and the plurality of pillars.

9. The vapor chamber according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one wick includes two wicks, a first of the two wicks in contact with a first main internal surface of the casing, and a second of the two wicks in contact with a second main internal surface of the casing opposite the first main internal surface.

10. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one recessed portion is shaped like a quadrangular pillar.

11. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an equivalent circle diameter of a bottom surface of the at least one recessed portion is 1 μm to 500 μm.

12. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one recessed portion is a groove.

13. The vapor chamber according to claim 8 , wherein a width of the groove is 1 μm to 500 μm.

14. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein a depth of the at least one recessed portion is 1 μm to 200 μm.

15. The vapor chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the main external surface is a first main external surface configured as a heat radiation surface, at least a portion of the first main external surface of the first sheet having the at least one recessed portion, the second sheet having a second main external surface configured as a heat absorption surface, and at least a second recessed portion of the plurality of recessed portions is positioned between adjacent pillars of the plurality of pillars in the plan view of the vapor chamber.

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Wakaoka Takuo
• Kume Norikazu
• Ikeda Haruhiko
• Nakao Osamu
• Numoto Tatsuhiro

Classifications

• H10W40/73

  for cooling by change of state · CPC title

• H05K7/20336 Primary

  Heat pipes, e.g. wicks or capillary pumps · CPC title

• F28D15/0233 Primary

  the conduits having a particular shape, e.g. non-circular cross-section, annular (F28D15/0241, F28D15/0266 take precedence) · CPC title

• F28F2225/00

  Reinforcing means · CPC title

• F28D15/046

  characterised by the material or the construction of the capillary structure · CPC title