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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sawyer I. Cohen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David A. Pakula, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tseng-Mau Yang, Mississaugua, CA;
Tyler B. Cater, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ashutosh Y. Shukla, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This application relates to efficiently distributing heat within a portable computing device. More specifically an apparatus for conducting heat between internal components of the portable computing device is disclosed. The apparatus, referred to as a thermal gap pad, is configured to bridge a variably sized gap between internal components. This is accomplished by wrapping a resilient core in a layer of highly thermally conductive material. The resilient core allows a shape of the thermal gap pad to vary in accordance with a size of the gap. A resilience of the thermal gap pad can be adjusted to account for an amount of variance in the gap. In some embodiments, an electrically conductive layer can be added to facilitate the passage of electrical current through the thermal gap pad.