Thermal interface material tester
AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorsAndrew Huy LAM, Malcolm Brosnahan GUTENBURG, Shahin AMIRI, Victor Sharbel HONEIN, Amit KULKARNI
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Abstract
Techniques for thermal interface material testing are described. In one example, a thermal interface material testing device includes a bimaterial strip, a pressure plate that applies a pressure to a thermal interface material between the pressure plate and the bimaterial strip, one or more thermal cycling devices that perform thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip to test the thermal interface material, and one or more sensor devices that generate sensor data based on the thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip.
Claims20
A thermal interface material testing system, comprising:
- a pressure plate;
- a bimaterial strip;
- a thermal interface material between the pressure plate and the bimaterial strip;
- one or more thermal cycling devices that perform thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip to test the thermal interface material;
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- one or more sensor devices that generate sensor data based on the thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip.
A thermal interface material testing device, comprising:
- a bimaterial strip;
- a pressure plate that applies a pressure to a thermal interface material between the pressure plate and the bimaterial strip;
- one or more thermal cycling devices that perform thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip to test the thermal interface material;
- and
- one or more sensor devices that generate sensor data based on the thermal cycling of the bimaterial strip.
A method, comprising:
- generating thermal interface material testing configuration data comprising instructions to assemble and operate a thermal interface material testing device to test thermal interface materials, wherein the thermal interface material testing device comprises a pressure plate, a bimaterial strip, one or more thermal cycling devices, and one or more sensor devices;
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- transmitting the thermal interface material testing configuration data to one or more networked computing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.