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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
May. 28, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Madeline Marie Roemer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mahesh Daisy, Folsom, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an integrated circuit (IC) component connected with a surface of the PCB, and a heat sink. The heat sink includes a base plate disposed directly over the IC component, and a plurality of cooling fins extending transversely from the base plate. The heat sink includes at least one component including a bimetallic material that distorts when heated above a threshold temperature so as to modify a flow of air directed toward and contacting the cooling fins or maintain contact between a surface of the IC component and a facing surface of the base plate.