US20050217826A1 - Integrated circuit heat pipe heat spreader with through mounting holes - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to active solid state devices, and more specifically to a heat pipe for cooling an integrated circuit chip, with the heat pipe designed to be held in direct contact with the integrated circuit.
- Heat sinks are most effective when there is a uniform heat flux applied over the entire heat input surface.
- a heat sink with a large heat input surface is attached to a heat source of much smaller contact area, there is significant resistance to the flow of heat along the heat input surface of the heat sink to the other portions of the heat sink surface which are not in direct contact with the contact area of the integrated circuit chip.
- Higher power and smaller heat sources, or heat sources which are off center from the heat sink increase the resistance to heat flow to the balance of the heat sink. This phenomenon can cause great differences in the effectiveness of heat transfer from various parts of a heat sink. The effect of this unbalanced heat transfer is reduced performance of the integrated circuit chip and decreased reliability due to high operating temperatures.
- the present invention is an inexpensive heat pipe heat spreader for integrated circuit chips which is of simple, light weight construction. It is easily manufactured, requires little additional space, and provides additional surface area for cooling the integrated circuit and for attachment to heat transfer devices for moving the heat away from the integrated circuit chip to a location from which the heat can be more easily disposed of. Furthermore, the heat pipe heat spreader is constructed to assure precise flatness and to maximize heat transfer from the heat source and to the heat sink, and has holes through its body to facilitate mounting.
- the heat spreader of the present invention is a heat pipe which requires no significant modification of the circuit board or socket because it is held in intimate contact with the integrated circuit chip by conventional screws attached to the integrated mounting board. This means that the invention uses a very minimum number of simple parts. Furthermore, the same screws which hold the heat spreader against the chip can also be used to clamp a finned heat sink to the opposite surface of the heat spreader.
- the internal structure of the heat pipe is an evacuated vapor chamber with a limited amount of liquid and includes a pattern of spacers extending between and contacting the two plates or any other boundary structure forming the vapor chamber.
- the spacers prevent the plates from bowing inward, and therefore maintain the vital flat surface for contact with the integrated circuit chip.
- These spacers can be solid columns, embossed depressions formed in one of the plates, or a mixture of the two.
- Porous capillary wick material also covers the inside surfaces of the heat pipe and has a substantial thickness surrounding the surfaces of the spacers within the heat pipe, thus forming pillars of porous wick surrounding the supporting spacers.
- the wick therefore spans the space between the plates in multiple locations, and comprises a plurality of particles joined together by a brazing compound such that fillets of the brazing compound are formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of particles so as to form a network of capillary passageways between the particles.
- the spacers thus serve important purposes. They support the flat plates and prevent them from deflecting inward and distorting the plates to deform the flat surfaces which are required for good heat transfer.
- the spacers also serve as critical support for the portions of the capillary wick pillars which span the space between the plates provide a gravity independent characteristic to the heat spreader, and the spacers around which the wick pillars are located assure that the capillary wick is not subjected to destructive compression forces.
- the spacers also make it possible to provide holes into and through the vapor chamber, an apparent inconsistency since the heat pipe vacuum chamber is supposed to be vacuum tight. This is accomplished by bonding the spacers, if they are solid, to both plates of the heat pipe, or, if they are embossed in one plate, bonding the portions of the depressions which contact the opposite plate to that opposite plate. With the spacer bonded to one or both plates, a through hole can be formed within the spacer and it has no effect on the vacuum integrity of the heat pipe vapor chamber, from which the hole is completely isolated.
- An alternate embodiment of the invention provides the same provision for mounting the heat pipe spreader with simple screws even when the heat pipe is constructed without internal spacers.
- This embodiment forms the through holes in the solid boundary structure around the outside edges of the two plates.
- This region of the heat pipe is by its basic function already sealed off from the vapor chamber by the bond between the two plates, and the only additional requirement for forming a through hole within it is that the width of the bonded region be larger than the diameter of the hole.
- the heat pipe boundary structure can be any shape.
- Another alternative embodiment of the invention provides for improved heat transfer between the integrated circuit chip and the heat pipe heat spreader. This is accomplished by using a different capillary wick material within the heat pipe at the location which is directly in contact with the chip. Instead of using the same sintered copper powder wick which is used throughout the rest of the heat pipe, the part of the wick which is on the region of the heat pipe surface which is in contact with the chip is constructed of higher thermal conductivity sintered powder. Such powder can be silver, diamond, or many other materials well known in the art. This provides for significantly better heat transfer in the most critical heat transfer area, right at the integrated circuit chip.
- the present invention thereby provides a heat pipe superior heat transfer characteristics, and the simplest of all mounting devices, just several standard screws.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of one embodiment of a flat plate heat pipe with through holes through its vapor chamber and in contact with a finned heat sink;
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the flat plate heat pipe shown in FIG. 1 , with the finned heat sink removed for clarity of illustration;
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the flat plate heat pipe shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 ;
- FIG. 4 is an exploded and enlarged view of a portion of the wick structure formed in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a representation of a brazed wick formed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a representation of another brazed wick formed in accordance with a further embodiment of the present invention.
- Heat pipe 10 is constructed by forming a boundary structure by sealing together two formed plates, contact plate 18 and cover plate 20 . Contact plate 18 and cover plate 20 are sealed together at their peripheral lips 22 and 24 by conventional means, such as soldering or brazing, to form heat pipe 10 . Heat pipe 10 is then evacuated to remove all non-condensible gases and a suitable quantity of heat transfer fluid is placed within it. This is the conventional method of constructing a heat pipe, and is well understood in the art of heat pipes.
- heat pipe 10 The interior of heat pipe 10 is, however, constructed unconventionally. While contact plate 18 is essentially flat with the exception of peripheral lip 24 , cover plate 20 includes multiple depressions 26 . Depressions 26 are formed and dimensioned so that, when contact plate 18 and cover plate 20 are joined, the flat portions of depressions 26 are in contact with inner surface 28 of contact plate 18 . Depressions 26 thereby assure that the spacing between contact plate 18 and cover plate 20 will be maintained even through pressure differentials between the inside volume of heat pipe 10 and the surrounding environment might otherwise cause the plates to deflect toward each other.
- Heat pipe 10 also includes internal sintered metal capillary wick 30 which covers the entire inside surface of contact plate 18 .
- a capillary wick provides the mechanism by which liquid condensed at the cooler condenser of a heat pipe is transported back to the hotter evaporator where it is evaporated. The vapor produced at the evaporator then moves to the condenser where it again condenses. The two changes of state, evaporation at the hotter locale and condensation at the cooler site, are what transport heat from the evaporator to the condenser.
- heat pipe 10 also has capillary wick pillars 32 which bridge the space between contact plate 18 and cover plate 20 . Pillars 32 thereby interconnect cover plate 16 and contact plate 14 with continuous capillary wick. This geometry assures that, even if heat pipe 10 is oriented so that cover plate 16 is lower than contact plate 14 , liquid condensed upon inner surface 34 of cover plate 20 will still be in contact with capillary pillars 32 . The liquid will therefore be moved back to raised surface 28 which functions as the evaporator because it is in contact with a heat generating integrated circuit (not shown). Capillary pillars 32 are wrapped around and supported by depressions 26 , which prevents the structurally weaker capillary pillars 32 from suffering any damage.
- FIG. 1 also shows frame 36 which is typically used to surround and protect heat pipe 10 .
- Frame 34 completely surrounds heat pipe 10 and contacts lip 24 of contact plate 18 .
- cover plate 20 is held in intimate contact with fin plate 38 , to which fins 16 are connected.
- the entire assembly of heat pipe 10 , frame 34 , and fin plate 38 is held together and contact plate 18 is held against an integrated circuit chip by conventional screws 40 , shown in dashed lines, which are placed in holes 42 in fin plate 38 and through holes 12 in heat pipe 10 , and are threaded into the mounting plate (not shown) for the integrated circuit chip.
- Holes 12 penetrate heat pipe 10 without destroying its vacuum integrity because of their unique location. Holes 12 are located within sealed structures such as solid columns 44 , and since columns 44 are bonded to cover plate 20 at locations 46 , holes 12 passing through the interior of columns 44 have no affect on the interior of heat pipe 10 .
- the preferred embodiment of the invention has been constructed as heat pipe 10 as shown in FIG. 1 .
- This heat pipe is approximately 3.0 inches by 3.5 inches with a total thickness of 0.200 inch.
- Cover plate 20 and contact plate 18 are constructed of OFHC copper 0.035 inch thick, and depressions 26 span the 0.100 inch height of the internal volume of heat pipe 10 .
- the flat portions of depressions 26 are 0.060 inch in diameter.
- Capillary wick 30 is constructed of sintered copper powder and averages 0.040 inch thick. Columns 44 have a 0.250 inch outer diameter, and holes 12 are 0.210 in diameter.
- FIG. 2 is a cross section view of an alternate embodiment of the flat plate heat pipe 11 of the invention with through holes 48 located within peripheral lips 22 and 24 of the heat pipe and hole 50 shown in another sealed structure, one of the depressions 26 .
- the only requirement for forming hole 50 within a depression 26 is that the bottom of depression 26 must be bonded to inner surface 28 of contact plate 18 to prevent loss of vacuum within the heat pipe.
- the region of the peripheral edges is also a sealed structure since bonding between lips 22 and 24 is inherent because heat pipe 11 must be sealed at its edges to isolate the interior from the outside atmosphere.
- heat pipe 11 of FIG. 2 differs from heat pipe 10 of FIG. 1 in that finned heat sink 16 is not shown in FIG. 2 , lips 22 and 24 are slightly longer in FIG. 2 to accommodate holes 48 , and hole 50 is shown. In fact, through holes 12 shown in FIG. 12 are also included in FIG. 2 . Although it is unlikely that holes 12 , holes 48 , and hole 50 would be used in the same assembly, manufacturing economies may make it desirable to produce all the holes in every heat pipe so that the same heat pipe heat spreader can be used with different configurations of finned heat sinks. The unused sets of holes have no effect on the operation or benefits of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the internal surface of the contact plate 18 of the heat pipe 10 of the invention showing region 31 of capillary wick 30 .
- Region 31 is constructed of sintered silver powder. While the balance of capillary wick 30 is conventional sintered metal such as copper, region 31 of capillary wick 30 , which is on the opposite surface of contact plate 18 from the integrated circuit chip (not shown), is formed of powdered silver.
- the higher thermal conductivity of silver yields significantly better heat conduction through region 31 of the wick 30 , and thereby reduces the temperature difference between the integrated circuit chip and the vapor within heat pipe 10 . This reduction of temperature difference directly affects the operation of heat pipe 10 , and essentially results in a similar reduction in the operating temperature of the chip.
- a brazed wick 65 is located on the inner surface of contact 18 .
- Brazed wick 65 comprises a plurality of metal particles 67 combined with a filler metal or combination of metals that is often referred to as a “braze” or brazing compound 70 .
- brazing is the joining of metals through the use of heat and a filler metal, i.e., brazing compound 70 .
- Brazing compound 70 very often comprises a melting temperature that is above 450° C.-1000 C but below the melting point of metal particles 67 that are being joined to form brazed wick 65 .
- brazed wick 65 In general, to form brazed wick 65 according to the present invention, a plurality of metal particles 67 and brazing compound 70 are heated together to a brazing temperature that melts brazing compound 70 , but does not melt plurality of metal particles 67 .
- metal particles 67 are not fused together as with sintering, but instead are joined together by creating a metallurgical bond between brazing compound 70 and the surfaces of adjacent metal particles 67 through the creation of fillets of re-solidified brazing compound (identified by reference numeral 73 in FIGS. 5 and 6 ).
- the principle by which brazing compound 70 is drawn through the porous mixture of metal particles 67 to create fillets 73 is “capillary action”, i.e., the movement of a liquid within the spaces of a porous material due to the inherent attraction of molecules to each other on a liquid's surface.
- the molecules of molten brazing metals attract one another as the surface tension between the molten braze and the surfaces of individual metal particles 67 tends to draw the molten braze toward each location where adjacent metal particles 67 are in contact with one another.
- Fillets 73 are formed at each such location as the molten braze metals re-solidify.
- brazing compound 70 and fillets 73 create a higher thermal conductivity wick than, e.g., sintering or fusing techniques.
- This higher thermal conductivity wick directly improves the thermal conductance of the heat transfer device in which it is formed, e.g., heat pipe, loop heat pipe, etc.
- the conductance of brazed wick 65 has been found to increase between directly proportional to and the square root of the thermal conductivity increase.
- material components of brazing compound 70 must be selected so as not to introduce chemical incompatibility into the materials system comprising flat plate heat pipe 10 .
- Metal particles 67 may be selected from any of the materials having high thermal conductivity, that are suitable for fabrication into brazed porous structures, e.g., carbon, tungsten, copper, aluminum, magnesium, nickel, gold, silver, aluminum oxide, beryllium oxide, or the like, and may comprise either substantially spherical, oblate or prolate spheroids, ellipsoid, or less preferably, arbitrary or regular polygonal, or filament-shaped particles of varying cross-sectional shape. For example, when metal particles 67 are formed from copper spheres ( FIG. 5 ) or oblate spheroids ( FIG.
- the overall wick brazing temperature for flat plate heat pipe 10 will be about 1000 C.
- brazing compound 30 has been found to be about six percent (6)% by weight of a finely divided ( ⁇ 325 mesh), 65%/35% copper/gold brazing compound, that has been well mixed with the copper powder (metal particles 67 ). More or less braze is also possible, although too little braze reduces the thermal conductivity of brazed wick 65 , while too much braze will start to fill the wick pores with solidified braze metal.
- One optimal range has been found to be between about 2% and about 10% braze compound, depending upon the braze recipe used.
- metal particles 67 When employing copper powder as metal particles 67 , a preferred shape of particle is spherical or spheroidal. Metal particles 67 should often be coarser than about 200 mesh, but finer than about 20 mesh. Finer wick powder particles often require use of a finer braze powder particle. The braze powder of brazing compound 70 should often be several times smaller in size than metal particles 67 so as to create a uniformly brazed wick 65 with uniform properties.
- brazes can also be used for brazing copper wicks, including nickel-based Nicrobrazes, silver/copper brazes, tin/silver, lead/tin, and even polymers.
- the invention is also not limited to copper/water heat pipes.
- aluminum and magnesium porous brazed wicks can be produced by using a braze that is an aluminum/magnesium intermetallic alloy.
- Brazing compound 70 should often be well distributed over each metal particle surface. This distribution of brazing compound 70 may be accomplished by mixing brazing compound 70 with an organic liquid binder, e.g., ethyl cellulose, that creates an adhesive quality on the surface of each metal particle 67 (i.e., the surface of each sphere or spheroid of metal) for brazing compound 70 to adhere to.
- an organic liquid binder e.g., ethyl cellulose
- one and two tenths grams by weight of copper powder (metal particles 67 ) is mixed with two drops from an eye dropper of an organic liquid binder, e.g., ISOBUTYL METHACRYLATE LACQUER to create an adhesive quality on the surface of each metal particle 67 (i.e., the surface of each sphere or spheroid of metal) for braze compound 70 to adhere to.
- a finely divided (e.g., ⁇ 325 mesh) of braze compound 70 is mixed into the liquid binder coated copper powder particles 67 and allowed to thoroughly air dry.
- the foregoing mixture of metal particles 67 and brazing compound 70 are applied to the internal surfaces of flat plate heat pipe 10 , for example the inner surface contact plate 18 and heated evenly so that brazing compound 70 is melted by heating metal particles 67 .
- Molten brazing compound 70 that is drawn by capillary action, forms fillets 73 as it solidifies within the mixture of metal particles 67 .
- vacuum brazing or hydrogen brazing at about 1020 C for between two to eight minutes, and preferably about five minutes has been found to provide adequate fillet formation within a brazed wick.
- a vacuum of at least 10 ⁇ 5 torr or lower has been found to be sufficient, and if hydrogen furnaces are to be used, the hydrogen furnace should use wet hydrogen.
- the assembly is vacuum fired at 1020° C., for 5 minutes, in a vacuum of about 5 ⁇ 10 ⁇ 5 torr or lower.
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- This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/852,322, filed May 9, 2001, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/310,397, filed May 12, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,302,192.
- This invention relates generally to active solid state devices, and more specifically to a heat pipe for cooling an integrated circuit chip, with the heat pipe designed to be held in direct contact with the integrated circuit.
- As integrated circuit chips decrease in size and increase in power, the required heat sinks and heat spreaders have grown to be larger than the chips. Heat sinks are most effective when there is a uniform heat flux applied over the entire heat input surface. When a heat sink with a large heat input surface is attached to a heat source of much smaller contact area, there is significant resistance to the flow of heat along the heat input surface of the heat sink to the other portions of the heat sink surface which are not in direct contact with the contact area of the integrated circuit chip. Higher power and smaller heat sources, or heat sources which are off center from the heat sink, increase the resistance to heat flow to the balance of the heat sink. This phenomenon can cause great differences in the effectiveness of heat transfer from various parts of a heat sink. The effect of this unbalanced heat transfer is reduced performance of the integrated circuit chip and decreased reliability due to high operating temperatures.
- The brute force approach to overcoming the resistance to heat flow within heat sinks which are larger than the device being cooled is to increase the size of the heat sink, increase the thickness of the heat sink surface which contacts the device to be cooled, increase the air flow which cools the heat sink, or reduce the temperature of the cooling air. However, these approaches increase weight, noise, system complexity, and expense.
- It would be a great advantage to have a simple, light weight heat sink for an integrated circuit chip which includes an essentially isothermal surface even though only a part of the surface is in contact with the chip, and also includes a simple means for assuring intimate contact with the integrated circuit chip to provide good heat transfer between the chip and the heat sink.
- The present invention is an inexpensive heat pipe heat spreader for integrated circuit chips which is of simple, light weight construction. It is easily manufactured, requires little additional space, and provides additional surface area for cooling the integrated circuit and for attachment to heat transfer devices for moving the heat away from the integrated circuit chip to a location from which the heat can be more easily disposed of. Furthermore, the heat pipe heat spreader is constructed to assure precise flatness and to maximize heat transfer from the heat source and to the heat sink, and has holes through its body to facilitate mounting.
- The heat spreader of the present invention is a heat pipe which requires no significant modification of the circuit board or socket because it is held in intimate contact with the integrated circuit chip by conventional screws attached to the integrated mounting board. This means that the invention uses a very minimum number of simple parts. Furthermore, the same screws which hold the heat spreader against the chip can also be used to clamp a finned heat sink to the opposite surface of the heat spreader.
- The internal structure of the heat pipe is an evacuated vapor chamber with a limited amount of liquid and includes a pattern of spacers extending between and contacting the two plates or any other boundary structure forming the vapor chamber. The spacers prevent the plates from bowing inward, and therefore maintain the vital flat surface for contact with the integrated circuit chip. These spacers can be solid columns, embossed depressions formed in one of the plates, or a mixture of the two. Porous capillary wick material also covers the inside surfaces of the heat pipe and has a substantial thickness surrounding the surfaces of the spacers within the heat pipe, thus forming pillars of porous wick surrounding the supporting spacers. The wick therefore spans the space between the plates in multiple locations, and comprises a plurality of particles joined together by a brazing compound such that fillets of the brazing compound are formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of particles so as to form a network of capillary passageways between the particles.
- The spacers thus serve important purposes. They support the flat plates and prevent them from deflecting inward and distorting the plates to deform the flat surfaces which are required for good heat transfer. The spacers also serve as critical support for the portions of the capillary wick pillars which span the space between the plates provide a gravity independent characteristic to the heat spreader, and the spacers around which the wick pillars are located assure that the capillary wick is not subjected to destructive compression forces.
- The spacers also make it possible to provide holes into and through the vapor chamber, an apparent inconsistency since the heat pipe vacuum chamber is supposed to be vacuum tight. This is accomplished by bonding the spacers, if they are solid, to both plates of the heat pipe, or, if they are embossed in one plate, bonding the portions of the depressions which contact the opposite plate to that opposite plate. With the spacer bonded to one or both plates, a through hole can be formed within the spacer and it has no effect on the vacuum integrity of the heat pipe vapor chamber, from which the hole is completely isolated.
- An alternate embodiment of the invention provides the same provision for mounting the heat pipe spreader with simple screws even when the heat pipe is constructed without internal spacers. This embodiment forms the through holes in the solid boundary structure around the outside edges of the two plates. This region of the heat pipe is by its basic function already sealed off from the vapor chamber by the bond between the two plates, and the only additional requirement for forming a through hole within it is that the width of the bonded region be larger than the diameter of the hole. Clearly, with the holes located in the peripheral lips, the heat pipe boundary structure can be any shape.
- Another alternative embodiment of the invention provides for improved heat transfer between the integrated circuit chip and the heat pipe heat spreader. This is accomplished by using a different capillary wick material within the heat pipe at the location which is directly in contact with the chip. Instead of using the same sintered copper powder wick which is used throughout the rest of the heat pipe, the part of the wick which is on the region of the heat pipe surface which is in contact with the chip is constructed of higher thermal conductivity sintered powder. Such powder can be silver, diamond, or many other materials well known in the art. This provides for significantly better heat transfer in the most critical heat transfer area, right at the integrated circuit chip.
- The present invention thereby provides a heat pipe superior heat transfer characteristics, and the simplest of all mounting devices, just several standard screws.
- These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be more fully disclosed in, or rendered obvious by, the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention, which are to be considered together with the accompanying drawings wherein like numbers refer to like parts and further wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of one embodiment of a flat plate heat pipe with through holes through its vapor chamber and in contact with a finned heat sink; -
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the flat plate heat pipe shown inFIG. 1 , with the finned heat sink removed for clarity of illustration; -
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the flat plate heat pipe shown inFIGS. 1 and 2 ; -
FIG. 4 is an exploded and enlarged view of a portion of the wick structure formed in accordance with the present invention; -
FIG. 5 is a representation of a brazed wick formed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIG. 6 is a representation of another brazed wick formed in accordance with a further embodiment of the present invention. -
Heat pipe 10 is constructed by forming a boundary structure by sealing together two formed plates,contact plate 18 andcover plate 20. Contactplate 18 andcover plate 20 are sealed together at theirperipheral lips heat pipe 10.Heat pipe 10 is then evacuated to remove all non-condensible gases and a suitable quantity of heat transfer fluid is placed within it. This is the conventional method of constructing a heat pipe, and is well understood in the art of heat pipes. - The interior of
heat pipe 10 is, however, constructed unconventionally. Whilecontact plate 18 is essentially flat with the exception ofperipheral lip 24,cover plate 20 includesmultiple depressions 26.Depressions 26 are formed and dimensioned so that, whencontact plate 18 andcover plate 20 are joined, the flat portions ofdepressions 26 are in contact withinner surface 28 ofcontact plate 18.Depressions 26 thereby assure that the spacing betweencontact plate 18 andcover plate 20 will be maintained even through pressure differentials between the inside volume ofheat pipe 10 and the surrounding environment might otherwise cause the plates to deflect toward each other. -
Heat pipe 10 also includes internal sintered metalcapillary wick 30 which covers the entire inside surface ofcontact plate 18. As is well understood in the art of heat pipes, a capillary wick provides the mechanism by which liquid condensed at the cooler condenser of a heat pipe is transported back to the hotter evaporator where it is evaporated. The vapor produced at the evaporator then moves to the condenser where it again condenses. The two changes of state, evaporation at the hotter locale and condensation at the cooler site, are what transport heat from the evaporator to the condenser. - In the present invention,
heat pipe 10 also hascapillary wick pillars 32 which bridge the space betweencontact plate 18 andcover plate 20.Pillars 32 therebyinterconnect cover plate 16 andcontact plate 14 with continuous capillary wick. This geometry assures that, even ifheat pipe 10 is oriented so thatcover plate 16 is lower thancontact plate 14, liquid condensed uponinner surface 34 ofcover plate 20 will still be in contact withcapillary pillars 32. The liquid will therefore be moved back to raisedsurface 28 which functions as the evaporator because it is in contact with a heat generating integrated circuit (not shown).Capillary pillars 32 are wrapped around and supported bydepressions 26, which prevents the structurally weakercapillary pillars 32 from suffering any damage. -
FIG. 1 also showsframe 36 which is typically used to surround and protectheat pipe 10.Frame 34 completely surroundsheat pipe 10 andcontacts lip 24 ofcontact plate 18. Whenheat pipe 10 is used to cool an integrated circuit chip (not shown) which is held againstcontact plate 18,cover plate 20 is held in intimate contact withfin plate 38, to whichfins 16 are connected. The entire assembly ofheat pipe 10,frame 34, andfin plate 38 is held together andcontact plate 18 is held against an integrated circuit chip byconventional screws 40, shown in dashed lines, which are placed inholes 42 infin plate 38 and throughholes 12 inheat pipe 10, and are threaded into the mounting plate (not shown) for the integrated circuit chip. -
Holes 12 penetrateheat pipe 10 without destroying its vacuum integrity because of their unique location.Holes 12 are located within sealed structures such assolid columns 44, and sincecolumns 44 are bonded to coverplate 20 atlocations 46, holes 12 passing through the interior ofcolumns 44 have no affect on the interior ofheat pipe 10. - The preferred embodiment of the invention has been constructed as
heat pipe 10 as shown inFIG. 1 . This heat pipe is approximately 3.0 inches by 3.5 inches with a total thickness of 0.200 inch.Cover plate 20 andcontact plate 18 are constructed of OFHC copper 0.035 inch thick, anddepressions 26 span the 0.100 inch height of the internal volume ofheat pipe 10. The flat portions ofdepressions 26 are 0.060 inch in diameter.Capillary wick 30 is constructed of sintered copper powder and averages 0.040 inch thick.Columns 44 have a 0.250 inch outer diameter, and holes 12 are 0.210 in diameter. -
FIG. 2 is a cross section view of an alternate embodiment of the flatplate heat pipe 11 of the invention with throughholes 48 located withinperipheral lips hole 50 shown in another sealed structure, one of thedepressions 26. The only requirement for forminghole 50 within adepression 26 is that the bottom ofdepression 26 must be bonded toinner surface 28 ofcontact plate 18 to prevent loss of vacuum within the heat pipe. Of course, the region of the peripheral edges is also a sealed structure since bonding betweenlips heat pipe 11 must be sealed at its edges to isolate the interior from the outside atmosphere. - The only differences between
heat pipe 11 ofFIG. 2 andheat pipe 10 ofFIG. 1 are thatfinned heat sink 16 is not shown inFIG. 2 ,lips FIG. 2 to accommodateholes 48, andhole 50 is shown. In fact, throughholes 12 shown inFIG. 12 are also included inFIG. 2 . Although it is unlikely that holes 12, holes 48, andhole 50 would be used in the same assembly, manufacturing economies may make it desirable to produce all the holes in every heat pipe so that the same heat pipe heat spreader can be used with different configurations of finned heat sinks. The unused sets of holes have no effect on the operation or benefits of the invention. -
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the internal surface of thecontact plate 18 of theheat pipe 10 of theinvention showing region 31 ofcapillary wick 30.Region 31 is constructed of sintered silver powder. While the balance ofcapillary wick 30 is conventional sintered metal such as copper,region 31 ofcapillary wick 30, which is on the opposite surface ofcontact plate 18 from the integrated circuit chip (not shown), is formed of powdered silver. The higher thermal conductivity of silver yields significantly better heat conduction throughregion 31 of thewick 30, and thereby reduces the temperature difference between the integrated circuit chip and the vapor withinheat pipe 10. This reduction of temperature difference directly affects the operation ofheat pipe 10, and essentially results in a similar reduction in the operating temperature of the chip. - In one embodiment of the present invention, a brazed
wick 65 is located on the inner surface ofcontact 18.Brazed wick 65 comprises a plurality ofmetal particles 67 combined with a filler metal or combination of metals that is often referred to as a “braze” or brazingcompound 70. It will be understood that “brazing” is the joining of metals through the use of heat and a filler metal, i.e., brazingcompound 70. Brazingcompound 70 very often comprises a melting temperature that is above 450° C.-1000 C but below the melting point ofmetal particles 67 that are being joined to form brazedwick 65. - In general, to form brazed
wick 65 according to the present invention, a plurality ofmetal particles 67 andbrazing compound 70 are heated together to a brazing temperature that melts brazingcompound 70, but does not melt plurality ofmetal particles 67. Significantly, during brazingmetal particles 67 are not fused together as with sintering, but instead are joined together by creating a metallurgical bond between brazingcompound 70 and the surfaces ofadjacent metal particles 67 through the creation of fillets of re-solidified brazing compound (identified byreference numeral 73 inFIGS. 5 and 6 ). Advantageously, the principle by which brazingcompound 70 is drawn through the porous mixture ofmetal particles 67 to createfillets 73 is “capillary action”, i.e., the movement of a liquid within the spaces of a porous material due to the inherent attraction of molecules to each other on a liquid's surface. Thus, as brazingcompound 70 liquefies, the molecules of molten brazing metals attract one another as the surface tension between the molten braze and the surfaces ofindividual metal particles 67 tends to draw the molten braze toward each location whereadjacent metal particles 67 are in contact with one another.Fillets 73 are formed at each such location as the molten braze metals re-solidify. - In the present invention, brazing
compound 70 andfillets 73 create a higher thermal conductivity wick than, e.g., sintering or fusing techniques. This higher thermal conductivity wick directly improves the thermal conductance of the heat transfer device in which it is formed, e.g., heat pipe, loop heat pipe, etc. Depending upon the regime of heat flux that, e.g.,region 31, is subjected to, the conductance of brazedwick 65 has been found to increase between directly proportional to and the square root of the thermal conductivity increase. Importantly, material components of brazingcompound 70 must be selected so as not to introduce chemical incompatibility into the materials system comprising flatplate heat pipe 10. -
Metal particles 67 may be selected from any of the materials having high thermal conductivity, that are suitable for fabrication into brazed porous structures, e.g., carbon, tungsten, copper, aluminum, magnesium, nickel, gold, silver, aluminum oxide, beryllium oxide, or the like, and may comprise either substantially spherical, oblate or prolate spheroids, ellipsoid, or less preferably, arbitrary or regular polygonal, or filament-shaped particles of varying cross-sectional shape. For example, whenmetal particles 67 are formed from copper spheres (FIG. 5 ) or oblate spheroids (FIG. 6 ) whose melting point is about 1083° C., the overall wick brazing temperature for flatplate heat pipe 10 will be about 1000 C. By varying thepercentage brazing compound 70 within the mix ofmetal particles 67 or, by using a more “sluggish” alloy for brazingcompound 70, a wide range of heat-conduction characteristics may be provided betweenmetal particles 67 andfillets 73. - For example, in a copper/water heat pipe, any ratio of copper/gold braze could be used, although brazes with more gold are more expensive. A satisfactory combination for brazing
compound 30 has been found to be about six percent (6)% by weight of a finely divided (−325 mesh), 65%/35% copper/gold brazing compound, that has been well mixed with the copper powder (metal particles 67). More or less braze is also possible, although too little braze reduces the thermal conductivity of brazedwick 65, while too much braze will start to fill the wick pores with solidified braze metal. One optimal range has been found to be between about 2% and about 10% braze compound, depending upon the braze recipe used. When employing copper powder asmetal particles 67, a preferred shape of particle is spherical or spheroidal.Metal particles 67 should often be coarser than about 200 mesh, but finer than about 20 mesh. Finer wick powder particles often require use of a finer braze powder particle. The braze powder of brazingcompound 70 should often be several times smaller in size thanmetal particles 67 so as to create a uniformly brazedwick 65 with uniform properties. - Other brazes can also be used for brazing copper wicks, including nickel-based Nicrobrazes, silver/copper brazes, tin/silver, lead/tin, and even polymers. The invention is also not limited to copper/water heat pipes. For example, aluminum and magnesium porous brazed wicks can be produced by using a braze that is an aluminum/magnesium intermetallic alloy.
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compound 70 should often be well distributed over each metal particle surface. This distribution ofbrazing compound 70 may be accomplished by mixingbrazing compound 70 with an organic liquid binder, e.g., ethyl cellulose, that creates an adhesive quality on the surface of each metal particle 67 (i.e., the surface of each sphere or spheroid of metal) for brazingcompound 70 to adhere to. In one embodiment of the invention, one and two tenths grams by weight of copper powder (metal particles 67) is mixed with two drops from an eye dropper of an organic liquid binder, e.g., ISOBUTYL METHACRYLATE LACQUER to create an adhesive quality on the surface of each metal particle 67 (i.e., the surface of each sphere or spheroid of metal) forbraze compound 70 to adhere to. A finely divided (e.g., −325 mesh) ofbraze compound 70 is mixed into the liquid binder coatedcopper powder particles 67 and allowed to thoroughly air dry. About 0.072 grams, about 6% by weight of copper/gold in a ratio of 65%/35% copper/gold brazing compound, has been found to provide adequate results. The foregoing mixture ofmetal particles 67 andbrazing compound 70 are applied to the internal surfaces of flatplate heat pipe 10, for example the innersurface contact plate 18 and heated evenly so that brazingcompound 70 is melted byheating metal particles 67.Molten brazing compound 70 that is drawn by capillary action, formsfillets 73 as it solidifies within the mixture ofmetal particles 67. For example, vacuum brazing or hydrogen brazing at about 1020 C for between two to eight minutes, and preferably about five minutes, has been found to provide adequate fillet formation within a brazed wick. A vacuum of at least 10−5 torr or lower has been found to be sufficient, and if hydrogen furnaces are to be used, the hydrogen furnace should use wet hydrogen. In one embodiment, the assembly is vacuum fired at 1020° C., for 5 minutes, in a vacuum of about 5×10−5 torr or lower. - It is to be understood that the form of this invention as shown is merely a preferred embodiment. Various changes may be made in the function and arrangement of parts; equivalent means may be substituted for those illustrated and described; and certain features may be used independently from others without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims. For example, through holes could also penetrate heat pipe boundary structures with curved surfaces or heat pipe boundary structures with offset planes which create several different levels for contact with heat sources or heat sinks.
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