US 11,871,541 B2
Electronic device including vapor chamber
Hongki Moon, Suwon-si (KR); Kyungha Koo, Suwon-si (KR); Yoonsun Park, Suwon-si (KR); Youngjae You, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunjoo Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Joseph Ahn, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/673,099.
Application 17/673,099 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/001507, filed on Jan. 27, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0023220 (KR), filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0272868 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20327 (2013.01) [H05K 7/2099 (2013.01); H05K 7/20336 (2013.01); H05K 7/20963 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing;
a support member disposed in an internal space of the housing and including a first surface and a second surface facing a direction opposite the first surface, wherein the support member includes a through hole in at least a portion thereof; and
a vapor chamber disposed through at least a portion of the through hole, wherein the vapor chamber includes:
a first plate including a first plate portion including a plurality of pillars and a first flange portion extending along an edge of the first plate portion to have a first width;
a second plate having a size corresponding to the first plate portion and including a second plate portion including a recess and a second flange portion extending along an edge of the second plate portion to have a second width less than the first width; and
at least one wick disposed in the recess,
wherein the wick is accommodated through a closed space defined through coupling of the first plate and the second plate, and
wherein the first plate and the second plate are coupled to each other through bonding of the first flange portion and the second flange portion, and
wherein the vapor chamber is disposed in a manner in which at least a portion of the first flange portion that does not overlap the second flange portion is disposed on the first surface when the first plate is viewed from above,
wherein the first flange portion includes at least one seating groove provided in a portion thereof and the second flange portion includes at least one seating protrusion extending from a side of the second flange portion and provided at a corresponding position of the at least one seating groove for aligning the first flange portion to the second flange portion.