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US 2010/0149719 A1Published application
Thermal device with ionized air flow
OwnerJohan F. Ploeg, Seri Leeinventors
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Abstract
In some embodiments a thermal device such as a heat sink cools an electronic device. An electrokinetic airflow generating device uses a positively charged source and also uses at least a portion of the thermal device as a negatively charged or grounded probe to provide electrokinetically driven airflow. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims22
1-21. (canceled)
An apparatus comprising:
- a thermal device to cool an electronic device;
- and
- a charged electrode to ionize air molecules to create an air flow near the thermal device, wherein some of the air flow moves over the thermal device and some of the air flow passes through the thermal device.
A method comprising:
- ionizing air molecules using a charged electrode to create an air flow near a thermal device used to cool an electronic device, wherein some of the air flow moves over the thermal device and some of the air flow passes through the thermal device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.