Connector Shell Assembly With Shared Liquid Cooling for Bottom Ports
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connector designs fail to adequately dissipate heat from bottom ports, despite the use of heat sinks and liquid cooling plates on top ports, resulting in suboptimal heat dissipation performance.
Innovation Solution
A connector shell assembly featuring bottom port heat sinks and a bottom port liquid cooling plate that thermally contacts and cools the heat sinks with a flowing cooling liquid, enhancing heat dissipation through a transverse slot and locking mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If multiple heat sinks and liquid cooling plates are installed, then heat dissipation performance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
One liquid cooling plate replaces what would otherwise be separate cooling plates for top and bottom ports. This single plate extends vertically to thermally contact both top heat sinks and bottom heat sinks, reducing component count while maintaining comprehensive cooling coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The liquid cooling plate performs multiple functions: it cools top heat sinks through its upper surface and cools bottom heat sinks through its lower surface. This multi-functional component eliminates the need for separate cooling systems for each port region, simplifying the overall device structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution significantly improves the heat dissipation performance of bottom ports, meeting specified requirements and ensuring effective thermal management.
Implementation Method 1
The bottom port liquid cooling plate inserted into the transverse slot of the shell thermally contacts a top of each bottom port heat sink and cools the bottom port heat sink with a cooling liquid flowing through the bottom port liquid cooling plate
Implementation Method 2
cools the bottom port heat sink with a cooling liquid flowing through the bottom port liquid cooling plate
Data Source
AI summary
A connector shell assembly includes a shell, a plurality of bottom port heat sinks, and a bottom port liquid cooling plate. The shell has a row of bottom ports and a row of top ports adjacent to each other in a height direction. The shell also has a transverse slot between a top wall of the row of bottom ports and a bottom wall of the row of top ports. The plurality of bottom port heat sinks are each installed on the top wall of each bottom port. The bottom of each bottom port heat sink protrudes into one bottom port and thermally contacts a mating connector inserted into the one bottom port. The bottom port liquid cooling plate inserted into the transverse slot of the shell thermally contacts a top of each bottom port heat sink and cools the bottom port heat sink with a cooling liquid flowing therethrough.