Heat radiating device and electronic equipment mounted on vehicle

Abstract

In a heat radiating device and electronic equipment mounted on a vehicle, grid-shaped grooves 16 are formed on a lower face of a fan casing 7 which functions as a heat sink, and an annular ditch 15 is formed a round a region in which the grid-shaped grooves 16 are formed. Heat-conductive grease 14 interposed between IC chip 5 and a lower face of the fan casing 7 is prevented by the grid-shaped grooves 16 from slipping out. Even when a quantity of the coated heat-conductive grease 14 is excessively large in the beginning and forced out from a region in which the grid-shaped grooves 16 are formed, the heat-conductive grease 14, which has forced out in this way, is stored in an annular ditch 15 and not forced outside. In a cooling device in which heat of an object to be cooled is transmitted to a heat sink via the heat-conductive grease and radiated outside, the heat-conductive grease is prevented from being forced out from between the object to be cooled and the heat sink.

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