International Business Machines Corporation

Ronald W Carlsten

Alan L Murphy

Sung J Kim

A heat pipe structure is incorporated directly into the metal baseplate of a circuit card thereby eliminating thermal contact resistance between the baseplate and the heat pipe assembly. Components are mounted on a copper circuit layer bonded to a dielectric layer in a first portion of the baseplate with a second portion of the baseplate/heat pipe assembly extending into a heat sink/cold plate condensing area for removal of heat generated in the component portion.

Integrated heat pipe and circuit board structure

A low-cost circuit capable of detecting the absence of a pulse train such as the pulse train generated by a fan cooling output circuit of open collector design. The detection circuit is capable of sensing that a pulse output has stopped in either a high or low state by converting the pulse train to a level that can be compared to a reference. The circuit design insures that the steady state voltage level decays to an under voltage value when the pulse train stops regardless of whether the fan output stops in a high or low state.

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Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Ronald W Carlsten