Patent ID: 9568254
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: F28D,F28F

Claim:
1. A metal heat transfer plate and heat pipe mounting method, comprising the steps of: (1) punching at least one mounting slot in a metal heat transfer plate; (2) employing stamping and extruding techniques to process each said mounting slot into a respective flanged hole having an elongated flange at one side of said metal heat transfer plate; (3) reversely stamping each said flanged hole to form a top protruding flange and a bottom protruding flange at opposing top and bottom surfaces of said metal heat transfer plate around each said mounting slot; (4) stamping each said bottom protruding flange to create an insertion chamber in each said mounting slot so that each said insertion chamber is surrounded by one respective said top protruding flange and one respective said bottom protruding flange; and (5) press-fitting one flat heat pipe into each said mounting slot in the metal heat transfer plate, and then stamping each said top protruding flange around each said mounting slot into a respective deformed top protruding flange to wrap about one respective said heat pipe and to keep each said deformed top protruding flange flush with the top surface of said metal heat transfer plate and each said heat pipe.