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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:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Patrizio Vinciarelli, Boston, MA (US);
John R. Saxelby, Jr., Maynard, MA (US);
Assignee:
VLT Corporation, San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
Abstract
Heat is conducted, from a heat generating electronic device that is mounted in a gap between a circuit board and a heat dissipator, along a path that includes a path segment that passes along conductive runs on the circuit board and another segment that spans the gap at a location adjacent to the device, the other path segment being spanned predominantly by a non-metallic piece that has a thermal conductivity of at least 7 W/m-°K.