PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "714000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to heat transfer arrays, cold plates including heat transfer arrays along with inlets and outlets, and thermal management systems including cold-plates, pumps and heat exchangers. These devices and systems may be used to provide cooling of semiconductor devices and particularly such devices that produce high heat concentrations. The heat transfer arrays may include microjets, microchannels, fins, and even integrated microjets and fins.

Claim (Index 5):
A thermal management system for a semiconductor device comprising:\n (1) at least one micro cold plate, comprising:\n (a) at least one fluid inlet header or manifold; \n (b) at least one fluid outlet header or manifold; \n (c) a hybrid microjet and microchannel heat transfer array, comprising:\n (I) a plurality of microjet structures for directing a heat transfer fluid from the at least one fluid inlet header or manifold onto at least one surface of a primary heat exchange region selected from the group consisting of:\n a. a surface of a heat source or a plurality of separated surfaces of a heat source; \n b. at least one surface in proximity to one or more heat source surfaces wherein a separation distance between the at least one surface onto which jetting occurs and a surface or a plurality of separate surfaces of a heat source is selected from the group consisting of: (i) <=200 um, (ii) <=100 um, (iii) <=50 um, (iv) <=20 um, and (v) <=10 um; \n c. at least one surface of a solid material separated from a surface or a plurality of separate surfaces of a heat source by a gap that is occupied by at least one highly conductive transfer material that may be a different solid, a semi-liquid, or a liquid wherein a thickness of the gap is selected from the group consisting of: (i) <=200 um, (ii) <=100 um, (iii) <=50 um, (iv) <=20 um, and (v) <=10 um); and \n d. at least one surface of a solid that is in intimate contact with a surface or a plurality of separate surfaces of a heat source; and \n \n (II) a plurality of post jetting microchannel flow paths to direct the heat transfer fluid from the primary heat exchange region to the at least one outlet header or manifold, wherein the at least one surface of the primary heat exchange region onto which jetting occurs is closer, in the jetting direction, to the surface or the plurality of separate surfaces of the heat source than are the microchannel flow paths. \n \n (2) at least one flow path to move heated fluid, directly or indirectly, from the fluid outlet header or manifold of the at least one micro cold plate to a heat exchanger; (3) at least one flow path to move cooled fluid, directly or indirectly, from the heat exchanger back into the inlet header or manifold of the at least one micro cold plate; and (4) at least one pump functionally configured to direct the fluid through the at least one cold plate to the heat exchanger and back to the at least one cold plate, wherein the heat transfer array is configured to withdraw heat from a semiconductor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 101.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.625
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15283013', '15475074', '15797784', '10908622', '12338092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8991299302374169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5998824173376778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8692051789474431
- Mean Citation Score: 281.93418
- Max Citation Score: 497.33823
- Similarity Product: 484.4370683053637

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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