Heat dissipating device with heat pipe

• US 7,028,758 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2004
• Issued: 04/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gold Charm Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Sheng, Jian-Qing, Lin, Shu-Ho, Lee, Meng-Tzu
• Primary Examiner(s): MCKINNON, TERRELL L
• Application Number:
  US11/019,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20050263265A1
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 165/104.33, 165/104.21, 165/104.19, 165/80.4, 361/697, 361/699, 361/700, 361/704, 257714-716
• US Class Current: 165/104.21
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/0275 Arrangements for coupling heat-pipes together or with other structures, e.g. with base blocks; Heat pipe cores
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 1/32 the means having portions engaging further tubular elements

Abstract

A heat dissipating device incorporating heat pipes is disclosed. The heat dissipating device includes a base, a plurality of heat-dissipating fins and at least one heat pipe. The heat pipe includes an evaporating portion attached to the base, a middle-portion and a condensing portion extending through the fins. Bottoms of the evaporating portion of the heat pipe and the base are coplanar, and the condensing portion extends opposite to the evaporating portion.

Claims

1. A heat dissipating device comprising:

a base having a flat bottom surface adapted for contacting with a heat generating component;

a plurality of heat-dissipating fins; and

at least one heat pipe, said heat pipe comprising an evaporating portion attached to the base, a condensing portion extending through the fins and opposite to the evaporating portion, and a middle portion connecting the evaporating portion and the condensing portion, the evaporating portion of the heat pipe having a plane surface coplanar with the bottom surface of the base and adapted for contacting with the heat generating component.

2. The heat dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the middle-portion of said heat pipe is a curved-portion.

3. The heat dissipating device of claim 2, wherein the middle-portion extends through the base.

4. The heat dissipating device of claim 1, further comprising a heat sink attached to a top of the base.

5. The heat dissipating device of claim 4, wherein the middle-portion of the heat pipe extends through an end of the heat sink.

6. The heat dissipating device of claim 5, wherein the end of the heat sink comprises a cavity therein receiving the middle-portion of the heat pipe.

7. The heat dissipation device of claim 1, wherein the condensing portion of the heat pipe is parallel to the evaporating portion of the heat pipe.

8. A method for manufacturing a heat dissipating device comprising steps of:

providing a base with a groove defined therein;

providing at least a heat pipe comprising an evaporating portion and at least a condensing portion, the evaporating portion thermally mounted in said groove with part thereof exposed outside of said groove;

machining said part of the evaporating portion and a bottom surface of the base to form a flat surface on the evaporating portion coplanar with the bottom surface of the base; and

providing fins thermally attached with the at least a condensing portion of the heat pipe.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said part of the evaporating portion is milled to form said flat surface.

10. A heat dissipating device comprising:

a base for absorbing heat from a heat-generating component;

a first heat sink provided on the base;

a heat pipe comprising an evaporating portion arranged between the base and the first heat sink, a middle portion bent from the evaporating portion and received in the first heat sink, and a condensing portion bent from the middle portion and extending away from the base; and

a second heat sink attached to the condensing portion of the heat pipe.

11. The heat dissipating device of claim 10, wherein the evaporating portion and the condensing portion extend from opposite ends of the middle portion in opposite directions.

12. The heat dissipating device of claim 11, wherein the base defines a slot and the evaporating portion of the heat pipe is completely received in the slot for absorbing heat from the heat-generating component directly.

13. The heat dissipating device of claim 10, wherein the second heat sink offsets from the first heat sink in a direction parallel to the base and offsets from the base in a direction perpendicular to the base.

14. The heat dissipating device of claim 13, wherein the first heat sink defines a cavity at one side thereof for receiving the middle-portion of the heat pipe.

15. A heat dissipating device comprising:

a base;

a plurality of heat-dissipating fins; and

at least one heat pipe, said heat pipe comprising an evaporating portion attached to the base, a middle-portion and a condensing portion extending through the fins;

wherein a bottom of the evaporating portion of said heat pipe and the base are coplanar, the condensing portion extends opposite to the evaporating portion, the middle-portion of said heat pipe is a curved-portion, and the middle-portion extends through the base.

16. The heat dissipating device of claim 15, further comprising a heat sink attached to a top of the base.

17. The heat dissipating device of claim 16, wherein the middle portion of the heat pipe extends through an end of the heat sink.

18. The heat dissipating device of claim 17, wherein the end of the heat sink comprises a cavity therein receiving the middle-portion of the heat pipe.