Intel Corporation

Ven R Holalkere

Barrett M Faneuf

Stephen W Montgomery

William E Berry

Ravi S Prasher

Michael W Leddige

Mark B Trobough

Mohiuddin M Mazumder

David S De Lorenzo

Alok Tripathi

Pascal C Meier

An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a first flexible conductive cable ('flex cable') secured to the PCB. The apparatus also includes a daughter card having an end adjacent to the PCB and a second flex cable secured to the daughter card. The apparatus further includes a connector which provides an electrically conductive connection between the first flex cable and the second flex cable. The connector is positioned to sandwich a portion of the first flex cable between the connector and the PCB.

Technique for blind-mating daughtercard to mainboard

Integrated stacked microchannel heat exchanger and heat spreaders for cooling integrated circuit (IC) dies and packages and cooling systems employing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a stacked microchannel heat exchanger is operatively and thermally coupled to an IC die or package using an interstitial solder or a solderable material in combination with solder. In another embodiment, a stacked microchannel heat exchanger is operatively and thermally coupled to an IC die or package using an adhesive. In a further embodiment, a stacked microchannel heat exchanger is operatively coupled to an IC die or package by fasteners and is thermally coupled to the IC die or package using a thermal interface material. The integrated stacked microchannel heat exchanger and heat spreaders may be employed in a closed loop cooling system including a pump and a heat rejecter. The integrated stacked microchannel heat exchanger and heat spreaders are configured to support either a two-phase or a single-phase heat transfer process using a working fluid such as water.

Integrated stacked microchannel heat exchanger and heat spreader

An improved air-cooling system for high performance, high density electronic equipment comprises, in one embodiment, a single fan having a radial impeller, a baffle having an inlet portion to efficiently direct air into the fan intake, and a two-tiered outlet plenum to direct one airflow specifically at the highest heat-generating components and another airflow at all components. The air-cooling system is designed to provide maximum cooling for a low-height, high heat-generating electronics module such as a server. By using only a single fan that is matched to the low resistance airflow characteristics of the baffle, the air-cooling system offers significant advantages over multi-fan systems. Also described are a computer server and methods of making heat-dissipation equipment.

Baffles for high capacity air-cooling systems for electronics apparatus

The invention relates to a process of forming a thermal interface that employs carbon nanotubes to reduce thermal resistance between an electronic device and a cooling solution. Bundles of aligned nanotubes receive injected polymeric material to produce a polymeric/carbon composite which is then placed between the electronic device and a heat sink or other cooling solution.

Carbon nanotube thermal interface structures

A computer system is described of the kind having a frame and a plurality of server unit subassemblies that are insertable into the frame. Each server unit subassembly has a chassis component which engages with a frame component on the frame. Heat can transfer from the chassis component to the frame component, but the server unit subassembly can still be moved out of the frame. In one embodiment, an air duct is located over a plurality of the frame components. Heat transfers from the frame components to air flowing through the duct. A modified capillary pumped loop is used to transfer heat from a processor of the server unit subassembly to thermal components on the frame.

Computer system having a plurality of server units transferring heat to a fluid flowing through a frame-level fluid-channeling structure

High capacity air-cooling systems for electronic apparatus and associated methods

A method and apparatus for cooling an electronic component within a handheld device comprised of an extension to the casing of the handheld device and at least one portion of a cooling apparatus within the extension.

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Ven R Holalkere