Cooling member for heat containing device
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
InventorsErcan Mehmet Dede, Brian Joseph Robert, Serdar H. Yonak
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Abstract
A cooling member for withdrawing heat from a heat containing device is disclosed. The cooling member can have a housing with a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a plurality of irregular-shaped fins located at least partially therewithin. In addition, a plurality of irregular-shaped and hierarchical branched fluid pathways can be located between the plurality of fins and the housing and/or the plurality of fins can be in physical contact with the heat containing device.
Claims19
A cooling member for withdrawing heat from a device containing heat, said cooling member comprising:
- a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, said housing in physical contact with the device;
- a plurality of irregular-shaped fins located at least partially within said housing;
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- a plurality of irregular-shaped and hierarchical branched fluid pathways between said plurality of irregular-shaped fins, said housing and plurality of irregular-shaped fins operable for a fluid to flow through said fluid inlet, flow through said plurality of irregular-shaped and hierarchical branched fluid pathways, exit through said fluid outlet and withdraw heat from the device.
A heat producing device with a cooling member comprising:
- a heat producing component having a first side and a second side;
- a first cooling member attached to said first side and a second cooling member attached to said second side of said heat producing component;
- said first and second cooling member each having:
- a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet;
- a plurality of irregular-shaped fins located at least partially within said housing;
- a plurality of irregular-shaped and hierarchical branched fluid pathways between said plurality of irregular-shaped fins;
- a fluid flowing through said fluid inlet, through said plurality of irregular-shaped and hierarchical branched fluid pathways, through said fluid outlet and withdrawing heat from said heat producing component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.