US 11,924,997 B2
Textile weave redundant loop cold plate design
Joseph Turney, Amston, CT (US); Kimberly Saviers, Glastonbury, CT (US); Ram Ranjan, West Hartford, CT (US); Robert H. Dold, Monson, MA (US); and Kathryn L Kirsch, Manchester, CT (US)
Assigned to Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed by Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/505,408.
Prior Publication US 2023/0123004 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01); F28D 7/00 (2006.01); F28D 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20254 (2013.01) [F28D 7/0033 (2013.01); F28D 15/0266 (2013.01); H05K 7/20272 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cold plate apparatus, comprising:
a cold plate including a first set of sinusoidal conduits formed in the cold plate and a second set of sinusoidal conduits formed in the cold plate;
wherein the first set of sinusoidal conduits is arranged in a first direction;
wherein the second set of sinusoidal conduits is arranged in a second direction;
wherein the first direction is orthogonal to the second direction;
wherein crests of the first set of sinusoidal conduits overlap troughs of the second set of sinusoidal conduits;
wherein crests of the second set of sinusoidal conduits overlap troughs of the first set of sinusoidal conduits;
a first set of header plates substantially adjacent to the first set of sinusoidal conduits and the second set of sinusoidal conduits; and
a second set of header plates substantially adjacent to the first set of sinusoidal conduits and the second set of sinusoidal conduits;
wherein the first set of header plates and the second set of header plates are disposed below and overlap a bottom surface of the cold plate;
a first set of connecting members fluidically coupling the first set of header plates to the first set of sinusoidal conduits; wherein at least one of the first set of header plates include a first guiding vane therein, the first guiding vane being configured to guide coolant fluid from some of the first set of connecting members to others of the first set of connecting members inverting a flow of the coolant fluid in the first set of sinusoidal conduits; and
a second set of connecting members fluidically coupling the second set of header plates to the second set of sinusoidal conduits.