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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Rainer Hebel, Heidenheim, DE;
Hartmut Michel, Heidenheim, DE;
EPCOS AG, München, DE;
Abstract
A plate-like heat sink module with polygonal ground plan or shape has an upper side for securing a heat generating component and an underside comprises cooling ribs. The outside edges of the module have surface structure complementary with one another and with whose assistance a plurality of the identical heat sink modules can be joined in one plane, whereby the surface structures are fashioned so that a heat sink module can be joined to another heat sink module in only one orientation to form an arrangement of the heat sink modules. As a result of the arrangement of heat sink modules, a heat sink for the interconnection of a plurality of capacitors to form a capacitor bank can be produced in an especially flexible way.