Cooling module and electronic apparatus
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsHao-Yu Wang, Akinori Uchino, Hajime Yoshizawa, Shusaku Tomizawa
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Abstract
A cooling module includes: a fan having a fan housing with an intake port and an exhaust port; a fin that faces the exhaust port of the fan; a heat pipe connected to a surface of the fin; and a plate-shaped vapor chamber having a first surface and a second surface, the heat pipe being connected to the first surface while straddling one edge of the vapor chamber, the second surface at the one edge being connected to the surface of the fin to be parallel with the heat pipe, so that the one edge is disposed between the heat pipe and the fin.
Claims7
A cooling module comprising:
- at least one fan having a fan housing with an intake port and an exhaust port;
- a fin that faces the exhaust port of the at least one fan;
- a heat pipe connected to a surface of the fin;
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- a plate-shaped vapor chamber having a first surface and a second surface, the heat pipe being connected to the first surface while straddling one edge of the vapor chamber, the second surface at the one edge being connected to the surface of the fin whereby the second surface is parallel with the heat pipe, and whereby the one edge is disposed between the heat pipe and the fin.
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a chassis;
- a heating element in the chassis;
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- a cooling module in the chassis, the cooling module absorbing heat generated from the heating element,
- the cooling module including:
- a fan having a fan housing with an intake port and an exhaust port;
- a fin that faces the exhaust port of the fan;
- a heat pipe having a first end connected to the heating element and a second end connected to a surface of the fin;
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- a plate-shaped vapor chamber having a first surface and a second surface, the heat pipe being connected to the first surface while straddling one edge of the vapor chamber, the second surface at the one edge being connected to a surface of the fin whereby the second surface is parallel with the second end of the heat pipe, and whereby the one edge is disposed between the heat pipe and the fin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.