US 12,119,156 B2
Inductor thermal management system
Charles Ingalz, San Jose, CA (US); Gargi Kailkhura, San Jose, CA (US); Mark Daniel Goldman, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Bozhi Yang, Los Altos, CA (US); Christopher McCarthy, Salinas, CA (US); Peter H. J. How, Mililani, HI (US); and Xu She, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Lunar Energy, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Lunar Energy, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/378,776.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/415,150, filed on Oct. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0120143 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H01F 27/02 (2006.01); H01F 27/08 (2006.01); H01F 41/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H01F 27/085 (2013.01) [H01F 27/025 (2013.01); H01F 41/005 (2013.01); H05K 7/20418 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inductor thermal management system, comprising:
an inductor; and
a heat sink, wherein the heat sink includes:
a cavity, wherein the cavity is filled with a potting material;
a basket adapted to hold the inductor in place within the cavity, wherein the basket includes a frame and at least two open sides permitting the potting material to contact a surface exterior to the at least two open sides; and
a spacer adapted to situate the inductor within the cavity and separate the inductor from at least one wall of the cavity such that heat is transferred from the inductor into the heat sink.