Patent ID: 9750160
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: B23P,F28D,H01L,H05K

Claim:
1. A multi-level cooling structure, comprising: a body; sidewalls extending from edges of the body, wherein the sidewalls, together with the body, partially enclose a volume; flanges projecting from ends of the sidewalls opposite the body, wherein the flanges project away from the volume; and an oscillating heat pipe within the body, the sidewalls, and the flanges; wherein a fluid path for the oscillating heat pipe repeatedly traverses the body, a length of each of the sidewalls, and a portion of each of the flanges; and wherein the oscillating heat pipe is configured to provide cooling through both phase change of fluid slugs and vapor bubbles within the oscillating heat pipe and movement of the fluid slugs and the vapor bubbles along the fluid path between an evaporator adjacent a first of the flanges and a condenser adjacent a second of the flanges.