Heat sink

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11725883-B2
Application number	US-202218050895-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2022
Priority date	Jan 31, 2018
Publication date	Aug 15, 2023
Grant date	Aug 15, 2023

Abstract

Provided herein is an example heat sink including a heat dissipation unit including a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure and a plurality of heat pipes, one end portions of which are thermally connected to a heating element and other end portions of which are inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat sink comprising:
a heat dissipation unit comprising a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure; and
a plurality of heat pipes, each of the heat pipes including a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portions being thermally connected to a heating element and second end portions being inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit, wherein
the plurality of heat pipes comprise predetermined heat pipes and other heat pipes which are not the predetermined heat pipes,
the second end portion of the predetermined heat pipes are upper second end portions which are inserted into a first space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups, the first space being located at a position in a height direction of the heat dissipation unit which is directly below the highest fin group of the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups,
the second end portions of the other heat pipes are lower second end portions which are inserted into a second space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups, the second space being located at a position in the height direction of the heat dissipation unit which is lower than the first space, the first end portions of the predetermined heat pipes and the first end portions of the other heat pipes are not alternately disposed, and
the first end portion of the at least one predetermined heat pipe is thermally connected to a region where heat density of the heating element is higher than heat density of the first end portions of the other heat pipes.

2. The heat sink according to claim 1 , wherein the heat dissipation unit comprises at least a first heat dissipation fin group including a plurality of first heat dissipation fins, a second heat dissipation fin group including a plurality of second heat dissipation fins and a third heat dissipation fin group including a plurality of third heat dissipation fins, and
the first heat dissipation fin group, the second heat dissipation fin group and the third heat dissipation fin group form the laminated structure by the second heat dissipation fin group facing the first heat dissipation fin group via at least one of the predetermined heat pipes, and the second heat dissipation fin group facing the third heat dissipation fin group via the other heat pipes.

3. The heat sink according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of heat pipes are introduced into the first space or the second space from an opening side of the heat dissipation unit, the opening side being a side of the fin groups which has an opening formed between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of heat dissipation fins.

4. The heat sink according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined heat pipes are introduced into the first space from an opening side of the heat dissipation unit, the opening side being a side of the first heat dissipation fin groups which has an opening formed between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of first heat dissipation fins.

5. The heat sink according to claim 2 , wherein the other heat pipes are introduced into the second space from an opening side of the heat dissipation unit, the opening side being a side of the second heat dissipation fin groups which has an opening formed between adjacent heat dissipation fins of the plurality of second heat dissipation fins.

6. The heat sink according to claim 1 , wherein bent portions are formed in parts of the plurality of heat pipes thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.

7. The heat sink according to claim 1 , wherein parts of the plurality of heat pipes thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit are processed into a flat shape.

8. The heat sink according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of heat pipes form a heat pipe group by the first end portion of the predetermined heat pipes and the first end portions of the other heat pipes being disposed in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the plurality of heat pipes.

9. The heat sink according to claim 8 , wherein the heat pipe group is thermally connected to the heating element.

10. The heat sink according to claim 9 , wherein one or two of the heat pipe groups is/are provided.

Assignees

• Furukawa Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• TOCHIGI Yasuyuki
• Meguro Masahiro
• Sakai Hiroshi
• Kawabata Kenya

Classifications

• H10W40/73

  for cooling by change of state · CPC title

• F28D15/0275 Primary

  Arrangements for coupling heat-pipes together or with other structures, e.g. with base blocks; Heat pipe cores · CPC title

• F28D15/025

  having non-capillary condensate return means · CPC title

• F28D15/0241

  the tubes being flexible · CPC title

• F28D15/0266

  with separate evaporating and condensing chambers connected by at least one conduit; Loop-type heat pipes; with multiple or common evaporating or condensing chambers (F28D15/043 takes precedence) · CPC title