Method and apparatus for efficient vertical fluid delivery for cooling a heat producing device

• Main Authors: MCMASTER MARK, HOM JAMES, GOODSON KENNETH, LOVETTE JAMES, MUNCH MARK, CORBIN DAVE, KENNY THOMAS W, ZHOU PENG, UPADHYA GIRISH, SHOOK JAMES GILL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.06.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; BLASTING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OFGENERAL APPLICATION; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL; HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS,IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WEAPONS

A method and apparatus for cooling a hat source configured along a lane. The heat exchanger comprises an interface layer that perform thermal exchanger with the heat source and configured to pass fluid from a first side to a second side. The manifold layer comprises a first layer in contact with the heat source and has an appropriate thermal conductivity to pass heat to the interface layer. The manifold layer further comprises a second layer couple to the first layer and in contact with the second side of the interface layer. The first layer comprises a recess area having a heat conducting region in contact with the heat exchanging layer. The first layer includes at least one inlet and/or outlet port. The second layer includes at least one inlet and/or outlet port. At least one inlet and/or outlet port is positioned substantially parallel or perpendicular with respect to the plane.