Liquid cooling head with a heat dissipating liquid flowing from a cooling plate to an impeller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12098732-B2
Application number	US-202217864236-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2022
Priority date	Aug 26, 2021
Publication date	Sep 24, 2024
Grant date	Sep 24, 2024

Abstract

A liquid cooling head includes an upper casing, an impeller, a bottom casing and a skived fin cooling plate. The upper casing has an inlet and an outlet, the upper casing is fixed on the bottom casing, and the impeller is arranged between the upper casing and the skived fin cooling plate. In addition, the skived fin cooling plate is fixed on the bottom casing, and the impeller sucks the heat-dissipating liquid from the inlet and drives the heat-dissipating liquid passing through the skived fin cooling plate, upwardly passing through the impeller and then discharged from the outlet.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid cooling head, comprising:
an upper casing, having an inlet and an outlet;
an impeller;
a bottom casing, wherein the upper casing is fixed on the bottom casing; and
a skived fin cooling plate, fixed on the bottom casing, wherein the impeller is arranged between the upper casing and the skived fin cooling plate, wherein the impeller sucks a heat dissipating liquid entering from the inlet and drives the heat dissipating liquid to flow through the skived fin cooling plate upwardly through the impeller and then discharged from the outlet, wherein the impeller comprises:
at least one axial blade; and
at least one centrifugal blade configured on the at least one axial blade, wherein the at least one axial blade sucks the heat dissipating liquid into the at least one centrifugal blade from bottom to top, wherein the impeller further comprises:
a hub, wherein the at least one axial blade is fixed around the hub; and
a rotational ring fixed around the at least one axial blade, wherein the impeller further comprises:
a plurality of permanent magnets fixed around the rotational ring.

2. The liquid cooling head of claim 1 , further comprising:
an intermediate casing, wherein the intermediate casing comprises an opening, and the impeller passes through the opening of the intermediate casing.

3. The liquid cooling head of claim 2 , wherein the at least one centrifugal blade of the impeller is disposed in the intermediate casing, and the rotational ring of the impeller passes through the opening of the intermediate casing.

4. The liquid cooling head of claim 3 , wherein the upper casing further comprises a raised portion, a rotational shaft is fixed in the raised portion, the raised portion passes through a raised portion hole of the impeller, and the rotational shaft passes through a shaft hole of the hub to allow the impeller to rotate around the rotational shaft.

5. The liquid cooling head of claim 2 , further comprising:
a stator fixed in the intermediate casing, wherein the stator is immersed in the heat dissipating liquid.

6. The liquid cooling head of claim 5 , wherein the stator comprises:
an upper wire frame;
a bottom wire frame;
a plurality of silicon steel sheets fixed between the upper wire frame and the bottom wire frame; and
a coil wound around the silicon steel sheets, wherein the upper wire frame, the bottom wire frame, the silicon steel sheets and the coil are immersed in the heat dissipating liquid.

7. The liquid cooling head of claim 6 , wherein the silicon steel sheets further comprise a waterproof protective layer coated on the silicon steel sheets.

8. The liquid cooling head of claim 7 , wherein the waterproof protective layer is an epoxy layer, an electroless nickel plating layer or an ultraviolet curable adhesive layer.

9. The liquid cooling head of claim 2 , wherein the upper casing further comprises an inlet channel protrusion to form a curved inlet channel connected to the inlet to guide the heat dissipating liquid through the upper casing and the intermediate casing to the skived fin cooling plate at a bottom.

10. The liquid cooling head of claim 9 , wherein a drainage space is formed between the inlet channel protrusion and a raised portion of the upper casing to accommodate the centrifugal blade, and the drainage space is connected to the outlet, and the curved inlet channel is located beside the inlet channel protrusion and opposite to the drainage space.

11. A liquid cooling head, comprising:
an upper casing, having an inlet and an outlet;
an impeller;
a bottom casing, wherein the upper casing is fixed on the bottom casing; and
a skived fin cooling plate, fixed on the bottom casing, wherein the impeller is arranged between the upper casing and the skived fin cooling plate, wherein the impeller sucks a heat dissipating liquid entering from the inlet and drives the heat dissipating liquid to flow through the skived fin cooling plate upwardly through the impeller and then discharged from the outlet, wherein the impeller comprises:
at least one axial blade; and
at least one centrifugal blade configured on the at least one axial blade, wherein the at least one axial blade sucks the heat dissipating liquid into the at least one centrifugal blade from bottom to top, wherein the impeller further comprises:
a hub, wherein the at least one axial blade is fixed around the hub; and
a rotational ring fixed around the at least one axial blade, wherein the bottom casing comprises a bottom casing protrusion, two bottom casing inlets and a bottom casing outlet, wherein the bottom casing outlet is formed in a center of the bottom casing protrusion, the two bottom casing inlets are located on both sides of the bottom casing protrusion, and the bottom casing protrusion is sleeved around the rotational ring of the impeller.

Assignees

• Auras Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fan Mu-Shu
• Chen Chien-Yu
• Chiang Ming-Yuan

Classifications

• H10W40/47

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

• H10W40/226

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

• F04D29/588

  cooling or heating the machine (F04D29/5886, F04D29/5893 take precedence) · CPC title

• F04D29/426

  especially adapted for liquid pumps · CPC title

• H05K7/20418

  the radiating structures being additional and fastened onto the housing · CPC title