Patent ID: 9618274
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: F28D

Claim:
1. A thermal module with enhanced assembling structure, comprising: an integrally formed base having a top and a bottom defined as a first side and a second side, respectively, and having a longitudinal receiving recess formed at a middle area thereof; the receiving recess having a middle portion formed into an opening that communicates the first side with the second side, and two end portions respectively forming a supporting portion; the receiving recess being so configured that a first extended arm and a second extended arm are formed at junctions between two longitudinal sides of the opening of the receiving recess and the first side of the base; and the first and the second extended arm being respectively formed on a wall surface adjacent to the longitudinal side of the opening with a row of alternating elevated and sunken areas extending along the entire longitudinal side of the opening; and a flat heat pipe having a top surface and a bottom surface, and being set in the receiving recess with the bottom surface fitly contacting with the supporting portions and engaged with the alternating elevated and sunken areas; and the flat heat pipe being received in the receiving recess whereby two lateral surfaces of the flat heat pipe are suppressed by the first and the second extended arm with the top surface of the flat heat pipe being flush with the first side of the base.