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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joshua Boilard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Fourie, San Mateo, CA (US);
William Riis Hamburgen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/20 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); B23P 15/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/20 (2013.01); B23P 15/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of using a heat pipe to spot cool a component in a computer case involves disposing an evaporator portion of the heat pipe to be laterally or horizontally adjacent to, but not in direct contact with, the component in the computer case. The method further involves thermally coupling the laterally adjacent component and the evaporator portion of the heat pipe with a bridging heat transfer component.