Pad including heat sink and thermal insulation area
First Claim
1. A pad including at least one compressed portion forming a heat sink area and at least one thermal insulating area, comprising:
- a plurality of interior layers of metal foil between a top layer and a bottom layer of metal foil forming a stack wherein said layers are arranged one above another in said at least one compressed portion forming the heat sink area and in said at least one thermal insulating area, at least one of said layers including plurality of embossments therein separating said at least one of said layers from an adjacent one of said layers in said at least one insulating area so as to provide a gap therebetween, the layers being secured together by securing means at said at least one compressed portion of the stack, one of the layers in said at least one insulating area being adjacent to and not metallurgically bonded to another one of the layers in said at least one insulating area.
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Abstract
A pad including thermal insulation and heat sink areas. The pad includes a plurality of layers of metal foil forming a stack with the layers arranged one above the other, the stack including at least one heat sink area and at least one insulating area adjacent to the heat sink area, the layers providing better heat conduction in the vertical direction at the heat sink area than at the insulating area. At least one of the layers includes a plurality of embossments therein separating the one layer from an adjacent one of the layers in the insulating area. The pad can include a single insulating area surrounded by a heat sink area and a black coating can be provided on selected portions of the layers to improve heat radiating characteristics of the pad. For instance, the heat sink area can be coated with the black coating to radiate heat away from the pad at a desired location. The pad is particularly useful in shielding a heat sensitive component on one side of the pad from a heat source on the other side of the pad. The pad can be covered with a prescored and/or embossed metal sheet coated on one or both sides with adhesive. The sheet can also be used by itself for fixturing. The sheet can be secured to an object by heating to cause the adhesive to adhere to the object. The prescoring can be perforations in the sheet and the embossments can be in a diamond shaped cross-hatching configuration.
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75 Claims
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1. A pad including at least one compressed portion forming a heat sink area and at least one thermal insulating area, comprising:
a plurality of interior layers of metal foil between a top layer and a bottom layer of metal foil forming a stack wherein said layers are arranged one above another in said at least one compressed portion forming the heat sink area and in said at least one thermal insulating area, at least one of said layers including plurality of embossments therein separating said at least one of said layers from an adjacent one of said layers in said at least one insulating area so as to provide a gap therebetween, the layers being secured together by securing means at said at least one compressed portion of the stack, one of the layers in said at least one insulating area being adjacent to and not metallurgically bonded to another one of the layers in said at least one insulating area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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9. A pad, including at least one compressed area forming a heat sink area and at least one thermal insulating area, comprising:
a plurality of interior layers of metal foil arranged one above another in said compressed area forming said heat sink area and in said thermal insulating area between a top layer and a bottom layer of metal foil, at least two of said layers being separated in said insulating area so as to provide a gap therebetween, one of said layers in said insulating area being adjacent to and not metallurgically bonded to another one of said layers in said insulating area, and said layers being secured together by securing means in said compressed area. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A method of making a pad having at least one compressed area forming a heat sink area and at least one thermal insulating area, comprising:
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assembling a plurality of interior layers of metal foil arranged one above another between a top layer and a bottom layer of metal foil to form a stack of metal foil layers, at least two of said layers being separated so as to provide a gap therebetween to form said insulating area; compressing at least a portion of said stack to form said compressed heat sink area adjacent to said insulating area; and securing said layers together in said compressed area. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A pad including thermal insulation and heat sink areas, comprising:
a plurality of layers (2) of metal foil forming a stack (3) wherein said layers (2) are arranged one above another in a vertical direction, said stack (3) including at least one heat sink area (4) and at least one thermal insulation area (5) adjacent to said heat sink area (4), at least one of said layers (2) being separated from an adjacent one of said layers (2) in said insulating area (5) so as to provide gaps therebetween wherein at least one of said layers (2) in said insulating area (5) is in point contact with another one of said layers and is not metallurgically bonded to another one of said layers in said insulating area (5);
wherein said heat sink area (4) comprises a compressed portion of the stack whereby each layer (2) is in flat contact with an adjacent layer in the heat sink area (4) and the heat sink area (4) is located to dissipate heat from the pad.- View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A method of making a heat insulating pad having insulating and heat sink areas, comprising:
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a step of assembling a plurality of layers (2) of metal foil in a stack wherein said layers are arranged one above another in a vertical direction, at least two of said layers being in point contact with each other and separated from each other by gaps between said layers (2) in the insulating area (5); and a step of compressing a portion of said stack such that heat sink (4) is formed adjacent to insulating areas (5) therein with said layers being in flat contact with each other in said heat sink area (4). - View Dependent Claims (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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