Electronics arrangement

• US 20050122682A1
• Filed: 11/19/2001
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DET International Holding Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: DET International Holding Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Koopmans, Hendrik, Streit, Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/432,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20050122682A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/695
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20154 Heat dissipaters coupled to components

Abstract

An electronics arrangement has at least one ventilator and at least one essentially flat support structure which is fitted with one or more electronic components and which is provided with one or more cooling ribs. A cooling air passage passing through the flat support structure is configured therein. The ventilator and the cooling air passage are configured and arranged in such a way that the ventilator produces a cooling air stream, so that the cooling air first passes along one side of the support structure, in a function whereby at least one component and/or a cooling rib are cooled, then passes through the cooling air passage and subsequently, flows along the other side of the support structure in a function whereby at least one electronic component and/or a cooling rib are cooled. This enables efficient cooling of the electronic components of the electronic arrangements.

Claims

1. An electronics arrangement having at least one fan and at least one essentially flat mount structure which is equipped with one or more electronic components and is provided with one or more cooling ribs, comprising a cooling air passage which is formed in the mount structure, with the fan and the cooling air passage being designed and arranged such that the fan produces a cooling air flow such that the cooling air flows along one face of the mount structure in a cooling function whereby at least one electronic component and/or a cooling rib are cooled, then flows through said cooling air passage, after which it flows along the other face of the mount structure in a function whereby at least one electronic component and/or a cooling rib are cooled.

2. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the fan is fit to the mount structure or to a holding apparatus which is connected to the mount structure.

3. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the fan is of such a size and is arranged on the mount structure such that it does not project above the highest components and/or cooling ribs in the direction at right angles to the surfaces of the main faces of the flat mount structure.

4. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the fan is arranged radially in the cooling air passage or in its immediate vicinity.

5. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the fan is provided at one or at both axial longitudinal ends with in each case one cover which is arranged transversely with respect to the fan axis, and which covers prevent air from being sucked in or blown out in the axial direction.

6. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the mount structure comprises a printed circuit board, which is equipped with electronic components on merely one side, and a cold plate which is provided with cooling ribs on merely one side, with the cold plate being connected by its face on which there are no cooling ribs to the face of the printed circuit board, on which there are no electronic components.

7. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized by the electronic components, the cooling ribs and the fan being arranged such that the cooling air flow which is produced by the fan initially cools at least one electronic component on one face of the mount structure, then flows through the cooling air passage, after which it cools at least one cooling rib on the other face of the mount structure.

8. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least some of the cooling ribs are designed and arranged in the form of flow guidance walls which, on at least one face of the mount structure, define channel walls for the cooling air flow.

9. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that a covering panel which is essentially parallel to the flat mount structure, or a covering element, is arranged on that face which faces away from the mount structure of the cooling ribs which define the cooling air channels, such that at least one of the cooling air channels is bounded on two sides by cooling ribs, on a third side by the mount structure, and on a fourth side, which is opposite this third side, by the covering panel or the covering element.

10. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one further cooling air passage is formed in the mount structure, and flow guidance means are arranged such that, after flowing along the first face of the mount structure and flowing through the first cooling passage which leads from the first face to the second face of the mount structure, at least some of the cooling air is passed to the further cooling air passage with the aid of the flow guidance means on the second face of the mount structure, and flows through this cooling air passage back to the first face of the mount structure in order then once again to flow along the first face of the mount structure in a function whereby at least one electronic component and/or a cooling rib are cooled.

11. The electronics arrangement as claimed in claim 1, characterized by the fan, the cooling air passage or passages and, if appropriate, the flow guidance means being arranged such that the cooling air is sucked in through an air inlet which is arranged in the vicinity of a first end face of the mount structure, and in that the cooling air is blown out through an air outlet which is arranged in the vicinity of an end face of the mount structure other than this first end face.