Patent ID: 9739543
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: F28F,H01L

Claim:
1. A heat sink comprising: a frame having a non-metallic body that includes a window, the non-metallic body including at least one peripheral wall that defines a boundary of the window, the non-metallic body comprising a non-metallic material, the non-metallic body of the frame comprising peripheral support fingers that extend from an interior surface of the at least one peripheral wall into the window; and a heat exchanger comprising a base and cooling fins, the base having a structure side and an opposite environmental side, the structure side of the base being configured to thermally communicate with a structure for absorbing heat from the structure, the cooling fins extending from the environmental side of the base, the cooling fins having heights defined from the environmental side to respective tips of the cooling fins, the cooling fins arranged side-by-side such that adjacent cooling fins are spaced apart laterally by a gap, the heat exchanger held by the frame such that the cooling fins extend through the window of the frame; wherein the peripheral support fingers of the frame are disposed in the gaps between the adjacent cooling fins of the heat exchanger for supporting the cooling fins, the peripheral support fingers supporting the cooling fins by engaging each cooling fin along an upper half of the cooling fin and along a lower half of the cooling fin, the upper half extending from the tip to a midpoint along the height of the cooling fin, the lower half extending from the midpoint of the cooling fin to the environmental side of the base.