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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2004
Richard Grant Brewer, Newark, CA (US);
Paul Tsao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard Herms, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Munch, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mark Mcmaster, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dave Corbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard Grant Brewer, Newark, CA (US);
Paul Tsao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard Herms, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Munch, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mark McMaster, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dave Corbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cooligy Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A heat collection apparatus is mounted to the heat source using a gimbal plate, which includes a gimbal joint. The gimbal joint enables application of a retaining force to the heat collection apparatus as a single-point load. The retaining force is applied along a vector that is collinear to the face-centered normal vector of the thermal interface of the heat source. This results in a balanced and centered application of the retaining force over the thermal interface area. The gimbal plate is mounted directly to a circuit board using spring means. The spring means regulate the amount of mating force directed through the gimbal joint to the heat collection device. Because the gimbal joint is rotation-compliant, the two mating faces making up the thermal interface are forced into a parallel mate. In this manner, a high performance TIM interface is generated.