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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark R Harris, Woodlawn, CA;
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
174252 ; 174250 ;
Abstract
A heat conductor has a plurality of resilient elongate elements, each being connected to a surrounding base of the conductor through two neck portions and being pivoted about its common axis. Two end portions of each elongate element are curved. When the heat conductor is mounted on a heat sink which is held over a plurality of electronic components mounted upon a printed circuit board, the curved end portions contact both the components and the heat sink with an appropriate pressure, because of the torsional action of the neck portions. The elongate elements provide short thermal paths to directly conduct the heat generated by the components to the heat sink.