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Heat sink with parallel flat faces

  • US 4,012,769 A
  • Filed: 08/04/1975
  • Issued: 03/15/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Unitary heat sink apparatus comprising a substantially cylindrical body of thermally conductive material having a pair of mutually opposed substantially flat members extending radially outwardly from said cylindrical body, the opposed faces of said radially extending members being resiliently urged into mutual contact by the substantially cylindrical body, each of said opposed faces having a notch therein, said notches lying in register and defining an open-ended space for receiving the body of a semiconductor encapsulation device having a central body with leads extending from one end of said body and a thermal conductor tab extending from the opposite end of said body when said thermal conductor tab is grippingly held between said opposed faces, the sides of said flat members defining said notches extending along opposite sides of said central body to retain said central body within said notches and to act as fins extending into the surrounding environment, at least one of said flat members having the edge thereof at the base of said notch flared outwardly from the opposed flat member.

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