EP1867224A2 - Dispositif de refroidissement pour cartes de circuits et procede de production de ce dispositif - Google Patents

Dispositif de refroidissement pour cartes de circuits et procede de production de ce dispositif

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Publication number
EP1867224A2
EP1867224A2 EP06705989A EP06705989A EP1867224A2 EP 1867224 A2 EP1867224 A2 EP 1867224A2 EP 06705989 A EP06705989 A EP 06705989A EP 06705989 A EP06705989 A EP 06705989A EP 1867224 A2 EP1867224 A2 EP 1867224A2
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Prior art keywords
housing
cooling device
circuit board
printed circuit
metal
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English (en)
Inventor
Josef Schmidt
Peter Weichselbaumer
Dirk Riese
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Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH
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Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/14—Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
    • H05K7/1417—Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack having securing means for mounting boards, plates or wiring boards
    • H05K7/142—Spacers not being card guides
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/14—Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
    • H05K7/1417—Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack having securing means for mounting boards, plates or wiring boards
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/20—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
    • H05K7/2039—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating characterised by the heat transfer by conduction from the heat generating element to a dissipating body
    • H05K7/20436—Inner thermal coupling elements in heat dissipating housings, e.g. protrusions or depressions integrally formed in the housing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
    • H05K7/20—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
    • H05K7/20845—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating for automotive electronic casings
    • H05K7/20854—Heat transfer by conduction from internal heat source to heat radiating structure
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00—Metal working
    • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49002—Electrical device making
    • Y10T29/49117—Conductor or circuit manufacturing
    • Y10T29/49124—On flat or curved insulated base, e.g., printed circuit, etc.

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a cooling device for a printed circuit board arranged in a housing and to a production method for such a cooling device.
  • a well-known in the art, effective way to produce a thermally conductive connection between the circuit board in the housing and the environment, is to glue the circuit board by means of a planteospray on a metal plate, preferably made of aluminum, and then to the housing screwed up.
  • the metal plate serves as a heat sink and at the same time as the lid of the housing. This construction technique is used by default in many control units in the automotive sector.
  • the invention has for its object to provide an improved cooling device of the type mentioned, which can be produced with little effort.
  • the object is achieved by a cooling device having the features specified in claim 1, and by a method having the features specified in claim 10.
  • the invention provides a cooling device in which the printed circuit board can be connected to a metal cooling body, which is designed as a cover of the housing and can be connected with it in a latching or snap-action manner. Through this screwless and detachable connection a complex screwing is avoided. This reduces both the number of parts used and the assembly effort.
  • the housing for latching or snap-fitting of the "metal heat sink on the housing at least one locking hook. This provides a simple means for screwless connection, in particular a simple locking or snap connection is.
  • At least one spring element is provided that allows a defined position of the metal heat sink relative to the circuit board and the housing. This is achieved by the spring element, that the metal heat sink is acted upon in the locked or snapped state with a compressive stress.
  • the compressive stress is directed against an undercut of the latching hook. A tension of the printed circuit board by different lines of force is thereby excluded. closed.
  • the spring element consists of a part of the housing.
  • the spring element as Gesimouselip- pen to the example formed of plastic housing formed. So no additional parts and no additional installation work is required.
  • a preferred embodiment provides that a heat-conducting body is arranged between the printed circuit board and the metal cooling body.
  • the circuit board may be spaced from the metal heat sink, so that, for example, structures such as electronic components on the circuit board are possible.
  • the heat-conducting body is formed from an initially flowable, hardened heat-conducting material, in particular from a heat-conducting compound.
  • a heat-conducting compound there are available from various manufacturers flowable heat conducting materials, such as thermal grease, which stick together after curing with the substrate and therefore do not require contact pressure.
  • flowable thermal mass allows the compensation of distance tolerances between the circuit board and the metal heat sink.
  • the housing consists of plastic. This allows a low weight and a simple. Production of the housing. In addition, electrical problems such as short circuits are avoided by the insulator effect of plastic.
  • a defined positioning of the printed circuit board in the housing is achieved by at least one support for the printed circuit board within the housing.
  • the support is designed in the manner of a support gage and can be molded onto the housing.
  • There may be provided a plurality of support domes for the positioning of the circuit board in the housing.
  • the housing may also be designed as a finished module, which is connected to the support men and formed as spring elements housing lips is produced in a pressing or forming process as a plastic module.
  • the method according to the invention for producing a cooling device provides that a printed circuit board arranged in a housing is provided with a flowable heat conducting body made of a heat conducting material and a metal cooling body is connected by contacting the heat conducting body with the housing in a frenzy or snap, before the heat conducting material has completely hardened ,
  • a heat-conducting compound with high viscosity is used as the heat-conducting material. In this way, the thermal mass is displaced by pressure without running out.
  • the essence of the invention is the mechanism for tolerance compensation.
  • the advantages achieved by the invention are, in particular, that the metal cover can be fixed without screws and still be achieved using a flowable michleitmaterials a permanent, 'thermally conductive connection between the circuit board and metal cover.
  • Fig. 1 shows a first variant of a cooling device
  • Fig. 2 shows a second variant of a cooling device.
  • Figure 1 shows a section of a cooling device 1 for a printed circuit board 2, which in a housing 3 made of plastic is arranged.
  • a metal heat sink 4 in plate form is provided as a cover for the housing 3.
  • the metal cooling body 4 is not screwed to the plastic housing, but fixed by a snap-locking hook 5.
  • a plurality of latching hooks 5 or a peripheral edge of the housing may be provided.
  • a latching hook 5 is exemplified.
  • the printed circuit board 2 is located in the housing 3 on a plane defined for example by a support 6, which is designed as a dome. There may be provided a plurality of supports 6 for positioning the printed circuit board 2 in the housing 3.
  • the space between the metal heat sink 4 and the circuit board 2 is filled with a flowable heat conducting material, which cures after assembly to a Weg1eitmaschine 7 and so causes a permanent thermally conductive connection.
  • a solid heat conduction body between the printed circuit board 2 and metal heat sink 4 can be used.
  • the length of the latching hooks 5 could be designed so that always the minimum possible distance between the printed circuit board 2 and the metal heat sink 4 is realized.
  • the minimum distance may, for example, be given by the size of solid fillers in the heat-conducting body 7 or by the thickness of a fixed heat-conducting body 7.
  • all components of the assembly are subject to production-related tolerances, in particular the length of the latching hooks 5, the thickness of the metal heat sink 4 and the thickness of the printed circuit board 2.
  • the latching hooks 5 are set so that with maximum thickness of the metal heat sink 4 and maximum thickness due to tolerances the circuit board 2, the distance between the circuit board 2 and metal heat sink 4 is minimal, as would be the reverse Case, that is, with a minimum thickness of the printed circuit board 2 and the metal heat sink 4, after mounting a game between latching hook 5 and metal heat sink 4.
  • the metal heat sink 4 would not be sufficiently fixed.
  • a defined position for the metal cooling body 4 is created by a combination of latching hook 5 and spring elements 8.
  • the circuit board 2 and the metal heat sink 4 is used in this.
  • the spring elements 8 are designed as housing lips in the interior of the housing 3 with this one piece made of plastic. They press the metal heat sink 4 against the undercuts 9 of the latching hooks 5. These form thereby defined contact surfaces for the metal heat sink 4.
  • the spring elements 8 can be used as separate parts in the housing 3.
  • the arrangement of the spring elements 8 causes both the circuit board 2 and the metal heat sink 4 always rest on a defined plane.
  • the manufacturing tolerances in the thicknesses of the printed circuit board 2 and the metal heat sink 4 and the length of the latching hook 5 thereby only lead to a variation of the distance between the printed circuit board 2 and metal cooling body 4, which is bridged by the flowable heat conducting material or the heat conducting body 7 formed therefrom , After snapping the metal heat sink 4, the distance remains constant, so that the thermosetting compound has a constant shape.
  • the amount of flowable choirleitmate- rials to be applied to the circuit board 2 before mounting the metal heat sink 4 is to be chosen so that the maximum distance between the circuit board 2 and metal heat sink 4 resulting from utilization of the manufacturing tolerances is still safely bridged. Since the material is flowable during assembly, the excess material is laterally displaced at less than the maximum distance.
  • the not to scale figure shows an example of a conceivable embodiment variant in which the housing lip is designed as a spring element 8 so that it is deflected when mounting the metal heat sink 4 as a cover in the entire tolerance range and thus always exerts a restoring force on the metal heat sink 4. It presses the metal heat sink 4 against the undercut 9 of the latching hooks 5. This defines the position of the metal heat sink 4.
  • the position of the printed circuit board 2 is defined by a support 6 formed on the plastic housing 3.
  • the resulting between the metal heat sink 4 and the circuit board 2 gap is bridged by the hardening after mounting flowable heat conducting material, whereby on the resulting heat conducting body 7, a thermally conductive connection is formed.
  • FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of a cooling device 1 is shown in detail, in which the spring elements 8 are designed as housing outer lying on the housing housing 3 integral with the housing 3 made of plastic.
  • a locking hook 5 is located in the central region of the Metallkühlkör- pers • 4.
  • the latching hook 5 is in the region of a support 6 of the
  • housing 3 arranged and designed with the housing 3 in one piece made of plastic.
  • the latching hook 5 for example, be inserted as a separate part on the support 6 in the housing 3.
  • the printed circuit board 2 and the metal cooling body 4 have recesses through which the latching hook 5 can protrude.
  • the circuit board 2 is located around the latching hook 5 around on the support 6 and at an intermediate edge of the housing 3 in a defined position.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • Cooling Or The Like Of Electrical Apparatus (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de refroidissement (1) pour une carte de circuits (2) qui est placée dans un boîtier (3) et qui peut être raccordée de manière verrouillable à un dissipateur thermique métallique (4) conçu en tant que couvercle du boîtier (3).
EP06705989A 2005-04-06 2006-02-18 Dispositif de refroidissement pour cartes de circuits et procede de production de ce dispositif Withdrawn EP1867224A2 (fr)

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DE102005015749A DE102005015749A1 (de) 2005-04-06 2005-04-06 Kühlvorrichtung für Leiterplatten und Verfahren zur Herstellung derselben
PCT/DE2006/000305 WO2006105746A2 (fr) 2005-04-06 2006-02-18 Dispositif de refroidissement pour cartes de circuits et procede de production de ce dispositif

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