Cooling device and power module equipped with cooling device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380733-B2
Application number	US-201314766175-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2013
Priority date	Feb 20, 2013
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

A cooling device includes a power module incorporating chips that generate heat and having chip arrangement in which a first chip having the largest amount of heat generation and second chips having the second largest amount of heat generation are not adjacent to each other and the first chip is adjacent to any two of third chips having the smallest amount of heat generation, a heat sink, to a base surface of which the power module is closely attached, and flat first and second anisotropic high heat conductors having a thermal conductivity higher than a main body disposed on the surface of the heat sink. The first and second anisotropic high heat conductors are separated into two and disposed under the first chip and under the second chips.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cooling device for cooling a power module including first and second chips that generate heat, the cooling device comprising a heat sink including a base surface on which the power module is closely attached and mounted, wherein
the heat sink includes:
a main body including the base surface; and
first and second high heat conductors that are each configured from a flat anisotropic high heat conductor having a high thermal conductivity in two directions among longitudinal, lateral, and depth directions and having a low thermal conductivity in one direction among the longitudinal, lateral, and depth directions and that have a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the main body,

the first and second high heat conductors are each configured from a stacked anisotropic high heat conductor having a two-layer structure arranged along the base surface of the heat sink,
a first layer is such that a direction in which a thermal conductivity is low is horizontal to a surface of the heat sink,
a second layer is stacked such that a direction in which a thermal conductivity is low is horizontal to the surface of the heat sink and is perpendicular to the direction in which a thermal conductivity is low in the first layer, and
the first and second chips are respectively in contact with one ends of the first and second high heat conductors via a wiring board and respectively connected to independent heat dispersion routes via the first and second high heat conductors.

2. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein, in the stacked anisotropic high heat conductor having the two-layer structure, an area of a surface horizontal to the heat sink surface is different in the first layer and the second layer.

3. The cooling device according to claim 2 , wherein, in the stacked anisotropic high heat conductor, the area of the surface horizontal to the heat sink surface is smaller in the first layer on a side closer to the power module than in the second layer.

4. A power module equipped with a cooling device comprising:
the cooling device according to claim 1 ; and
a power module that is closely attached to the base surface of the heat sink of the cooling device and includes first and second chips.

5. The power module equipped with a cooling device according to claim 4 , further comprising one or more third chips in addition to the first and second chips, wherein
the first chip having a largest amount of heat generation and the second chip having a second largest amount of heat generation are arranged not to be adjacent to each other.

Assignees

• Nagata Yuichi
• Kato Kenji
• Tanaka Toshiki
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Nagata Yuichi
• Kato Kenji
• Tanaka Toshiki

Classifications

• H10W40/73

  for cooling by change of state · CPC title

• H10W90/00

  Package configurations · CPC title

• H10W40/257

  having a heterogeneous or anisotropic structure, e.g. powder or fibres in a matrix, wire mesh or porous structures (H10W40/254, H10W40/251 take precedence) · CPC title

• H10W40/25 Primary

  characterised by their materials · CPC title

• H10W40/10

  Arrangements for heating · CPC title