METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR COOLING A COMPUTER

• US 20090145579A1
• Filed: 02/17/2009
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: SENYK, BORYS S., Moresco, Larry L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,016,023 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 165/80.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/203 for portable computers, e.g. for laptops
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/201 Cooling arrangements using cooling fluid

Abstract

A heat exchanging system comprising circulating fluid through a tube coupled to an electronic component in a first part of a computing device and to a heat transfer plate in a second part of the computing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

coupling a first heat transfer plate to an electronic component in a first part of a portable computing device and a second heat transfer plate in a second part of the computing device; and

circulating a fluid between one of the first heat transfer plate and a second heat transfer plate.

2. A heat exchanging system comprising:

a first heat transfer plate coupled to an electronic component located in a first part of a portable computing device and to a second heat transfer plate located in a second part of the portable computing device; and

a fluid for circulating through one of the first heat transfer plate and the second heat transfer plate.

3. An apparatus comprising:

a heat generating element disposed in a first part of a portable computing device;

a first heat transfer plate coupled to the heat generating element;

a second heat transfer plate disposed in a second part of the portable computing device;

a tube coupled to the first part and the second part of the portable computing device; and

a fluid for circulating through the tube, the first part and the second part of the portable computing device.