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Packaging and cooling system for power semi-conductor

US5719444A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 26, 1996
Grant dateFeb 17, 1998
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 26, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/0002
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A packaging and cooling system for one or more semi-conductor devices provides a casement defining a die chamber carrying a peripherally positioned power board with pre-attached multi-functional power pins communicating to medially positioned dies. The power pins provide not only improved power supply but also provide heat transfer from and mechanical support for the die. The die with an attached power supply plane and heat spreader is flip mounted on the power pins. The casement defines channels for coolant between the power board and dies and outwardly of the heat spreader. A closed cooling system provides a fluidic coolant to an input plenum from which it is sprayed into the die chamber channels for evaporative cooling therein on both sides of contained dies and about the power pins with subsequent recovery and recycling. The asymmetrical architecture within the die chamber allows less restricted thermal expansion of the various components than would result from common symmetrical architecture.

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