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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard Tzewei Chang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yoseph Malkin, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick Hanley, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jeffrey ChiFai Liew, Millbrae, CA (US);
Liem Hieu Dinh Vo, San Jose, CA (US);
Duc Minh Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Nora Yan, San Mateo, CA (US);
Hiroshi Mendoza, Copenhagen, DK;
William McFarland, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board each stacked relative to one another; and a mid-spreader disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, wherein the mid-spreader includes a heat conductive material in thermal contact with one or more components on each of the first circuit board and the second circuit board to act as a heat sink, and wherein the mid-spreader is thermally connected to one or more heat sinks, the mid-spreader is one of disposed to or integrally formed with the one or more heat sinks, and the mid-spreader extends beyond a size of at least one of the first circuit board and the second circuit board to conduct and transfer heat therefrom.