Patent ID: 6392890
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
An electronics system comprising a heat sink structure and a printed circuit board structure, the printed circuit board structure comprising a printed circuit board with at least one electronic component mounted upon a first side of the printed circuit board, the heat sink structure and the circuit board structure being affixed to each other wherein the electronic component is in a spaced relationship from the heat sink structure, the electronics system further comprising a means for creating a thermally conductive path from the heat sink structure to the electronic component wherein the means for creating a thermally conductive path comprises a good thermally conductive, electrically conductive material and an electrical insulator material wherein both of the good thermally conductive, electrically conductive material and the electrical insulator material are between the electronic component and the heat sink structure and the good thermally conductive, electrically conductive material is in direct contact with both a surface of the electronic component and a surface of the heat sink structure, and the good thermally conductive, electrically conductive material is confined and contained between the electronic component and the heat sink structure by the electrical insulator material.