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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. 17, 2004
Filed:
May. 15, 2001
Mihalis Michael, Antioch, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for cooling electronic components on a plug-in or other computer board placed within an enclosure. The inventive apparatus and system is capable of cooling a high power dissipating device, such as a Graphics Processing Unit and cooling individual ones of a plurality of other devices, such as memory chips, to within a specified temperature range. In one embodiment, cooling air is drawn from the edge of a plug-in card, over the GPU and is directed along and over arrays of memory chips. By directing the flow on and along the memory chips, a flow is established that maintains the chip-to-chip temperature difference to within a desired, uniform range. The invention allows for the incorporation of higher performance processors onto boards while maintaining memory chips within a temperature range that allows for predictable performance.
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