Active cooling system for cpu and semiconductors also enabling thermal accelaration
AssigneeActive Cool Ltd.
InventorRonen Meir
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Abstract
An active cooling system for the CPU of a computer having computer slots and motherboard, the cooling system including a card arranged to sit in a computer slot coupled to the motherboard and powered directly from mains via the computer slot, the card including a hot air outlet passage from inside the computer to outside the computer; a cooling-CPU Unit including a thermoelectric component (TEC) couplable to mains for power supply, a cold side heat sink coupled to the TEC and in thermally conductive contact with a part of the CPU, a hot side heat sink coupled to the TEC, and a fan distanced from the hot side heat sink for pulling heated air from the hot side heat sink.
Claims16
An active cooling system for the CPU of a computer having computer slots and a motherboard, the cooling system comprising:
- a card arranged to sit in a computer slot coupled to the motherboard and powered directly from mains via said computer slot, the card including a hot air outlet passage from inside the computer to outside the computer;
- a cooling-CPU unit including:
- a thermoelectric component (TEC) couplable to mains for power supply;
- a cold side heat sink coupled to said TEC and in thermally conductive contact with a part of the CPU;
- a hot side heat sink coupled to said TEC;
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- a fan distanced from said hot side heat sink for pulling heated air from said hot side heat sink.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, further comprising a microprocessor in said cooling-CPU unit arranged to control temperature of the CPU by controlling operation of said TEC.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, further comprising an alarm operative when said card and cooling-CPU unit are not receiving mains power but the computer is switched on.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, further comprising a visual display of CPU temperature.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, further comprising a blue LED for providing an indication of operation of the system.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, further comprising an extender on said cold side heat sink providing larger distance between the CPU and said hot side heat sink.
The active cooling system of any of the preceding claims, wherein the card is built into a custom PC power supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.