Coldplate for cooling electronic equipment
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsJames L. Haws, Timothy C. Fletcher, Lian-Tuu Yeh, John L. Darrouzet
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Abstract
A system for cooling, positioning and supporting phased array microwave modules within a phased array radar system wherein the modules are disposed in cooling tubes, the cooling tubes being arranged to permit coolant to continuously pass in close proximity thereto along channels formed in a coldplate. The channels can be built into a solid member wherein the cooling tubes are hollowed out portions of the solid with channels for coolant formed in the space between cooling tubes. In alternate embodiments, the channels are formed by the spaces between cooling tubes.
Claims10
A coldplate system for cooling heat producing modules comprising:
- (a) a housing of predetermined length including an interior region and a wall region enclosing said interior region;
- (b) said interior region including a plurality of apertured regions defining slots having slot axes substantially normal to said length of said housing for receiving said circuit modules therein and for permitting fluid flow along the outer surfaces of said modules;
- (c) a fluid inlet path defined in said wall and extending from an exterior surface of said wall substantially coaxially with the axes of said slots for substantially the length of said slots;
- said fluid inlet path then extending substantially normal to said axes of said slots to said interior region;
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- (d) a fluid outlet path defined in said wall and extending from said exterior surface of said wall substantially coaxially with the axes of said slots a predetermined distance less than said fluid inlet path;
- said fluid outlet path then extending substantially normal to said axes of said slots to said interior region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.