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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:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kristina L Mann, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
Abstract
A heat sink device for transferring heat from a computer chip is comprised of a base, a core and an array of fins that are in the form of a single, unitary piece. In a particularly preferred embodiment of this invention, the array of fins is comprised of a first subarray of fins that each extend to a core cavity wall and a second subarray of fins that extend into the device to a location that lies between the exterior of the device and the cavity wall.