Patent ID: 6352103
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: F28D,G06F,H01L

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:(a) a heat collector assembly mounted on a circuit board and operatively connected to an integrated circuit chip, the circuit board being located in a computer chassis; (b) a heat exchange assembly mounted in the computer chassis, the heat exchange assembly comprising: (1) a primary housing having a plenum chamber, an inlet opening to the plenum chamber and an outlet opening to the plenum chamber; (2) an electrical fan in operative register with the outlet opening to the plenum chamber; (3) a secondary housing having a cavity, an outlet opening to the cavity and an inlet opening to the cavity, the outlet opening to the cavity being in operative register with the inlet opening to the plenum chamber; (4) wherein the primary housing has at least one supporting wall extending away from the inlet opening to the plenum chamber to support the secondary housing and a latch to releasably maintain the secondary housing connected to the primary housing; and (5) a plurality of spaced heat exchange fins operatively connected to the secondary housing within the cavity and extending from the inlet opening to the cavity to the outlet opening to the cavity; and (c) a heat pipe having a first end operatively connected to the heat collector assembly and a second end operatively connected to the secondary housing.