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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1996
Dennis R Esterberg, Philomath, OR (US);
Mark A Smith, Corvallis, OR (US);
Paul A Rubens, Salem, OR (US);
Tracy A Lang, Corvallis, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A heat conductive substrate is mounted within a through-opening of a printed circuit board. An integrated circuit then is mounted to one side of the heat conductive substrate, while a heat sink is fixed in thermal contact to the other side of the substrate. There is no direct thermal contact between the IC and the PC board. The substrate is mounted to an undersurface of the PC board and concentrically spaced from the PC board within the opening. An air gap occurs between the substrate and the PC board within the opening to substantially reduce heat conductivity into the PC board.