Method and an apparatus for cooling a computer

• US 8,701,747 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2011
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Senyk, Borys S., Moresco, Larry L.
• Primary Examiner(s): CIRIC, LJILJANA V
• Application Number:
  US13/231,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20120000640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 952 Days
• Field of Search: 165/11.1, 165/104.33, 165/287, 165/288, 165/289, 165/290, 361/687, 361/689, 361/699, 361/697, 361/700
• US Class Current: 165/11.1
• 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. An apparatus comprising:

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

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 sensor configured to sense a threshold temperature of the heat generating element.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the heat generating element comprises a motherboard and the first part of the portable computing device comprises a housing for the motherboard and the second part comprises a housing for a display.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a container and a pump configured to circulate a fluid through the tube.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a pump coupled to the tube.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the heat generating element comprises a microprocessor.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the tube comprises a stainless steel tube.