Heat sink for electronic devices
AssigneeDupont Electronics, Inc.
InventorsTao YANG, Ping Wang
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Abstract
The present invention discloses heat sinks comprising a base and a plurality of fins protruding from one surface of the base, wherein the base and the fins are independently composed of one or more anisotropic thermal conductive films. Said anisotropic thermal conductive film is electric insulative with low Dk and Df values. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing the heat sinks and methods for dissipating heat of electronic devices having at least one heat generating component.
Claims20
A heat sink for an electronic device, comprising a base and a plurality of fins protruding from one surface of the base,
- wherein
- the base has a length (L1) ranging from 5 mm to 300 mm, a width (W1) ranging from 5 mm to 300 mm, and a thickness (H1) ranging from 0.03 mm to 200 mm;
- each fin has a thickness (L2) of 2.0 mm or less, a width (W2) ranging from 0.5 to 2.0 times that of W1, and a protruding height (H2) of at least 3 mm;
- the average number of fins is in a range of from 0.5 to 10 per 10 mm of the base's length;
- the base is composed of one or more first polymeric films;
- each fin is composed of one or more second polymeric films;
- and
- the first polymeric films and the second polymeric films are anisotropic thermal conductive films, each independently has a volume resistivity of more than 1015 Ω·cm;
- an in-plane thermal conductivity in one direction higher than that of the orthogonal direction, and said higher thermal conductivity ranges from 10 to 100 W/m·K;
- a dielectric constant of 4 or less at 30 GHz;
- and a dissipation factor of 0.001 or less at 30 GHz;
- provided that the first polymeric films and the second polymeric films are free of fillers having a thermal conductivity of 5 W/m·K or more.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.