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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:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2005
Applicants:
Ioan Sauciuc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Gregory M. Chrysler, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Ioan Sauciuc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Gregory M. Chrysler, Chandler, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/495 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and associated method to provide localized cooling to a microelectronic device are generally described. In this regard, according to one example embodiment, a cooling apparatus comprising a heat spreader and one or more thermoelectric cooler(s) thermally coupled to the heat spreader provides cooling to one or more hot spot(s) of a microelectronic device, the one or more thermoelectric cooler(s) having a single heat exchanging element of a single material.