Hash Board Heat Sink Assembly With Spring-Bolt Contact Equalization

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for connecting heat dissipation elements with hash boards require high manufacturing precision, leading to inadequate contact and inefficient heat dissipation due to low close contact between components.

Innovation Solution

A computing and heat dissipation integrated unit with plate-shaped hash boards and heat dissipation assemblies featuring ribs and spring bolts, ensuring uniform and tight contact through a simple structural configuration that facilitates manufacturing and adjusts contact tightness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If high manufacturing precision is required for connecting heat dissipation elements with hash boards, then contact tightness is improved, but manufacturing complexity and difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontact tightnessVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The heat dissipation assembly is segmented into a plate body and multiple protruding ribs, where the ribs are distributed across the plate surface to contact different regions of the hash board. This segmentation allows each rib to independently ensure contact tightness without requiring the entire assembly to be manufactured with high precision, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining contact quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The ribs are strategically positioned to contact specific local regions of the hash board where heat dissipation is most critical. By concentrating contact functionality at these local points rather than requiring uniform contact across the entire surface, the design achieves effective heat dissipation with relaxed overall manufacturing precision requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Manufacturing precision

If high manufacturing precision is required for connecting heat dissipation elements with hash boards, then contact uniformity is improved, but ease of manufacture deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontact uniformityVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The contact interface is segmented into multiple discrete rib-hash board contact points rather than requiring a single large-scale precise interface. Each rib can be manufactured and positioned independently, making it easier to achieve uniform contact distribution across the hash board surface without requiring extremely high overall manufacturing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The ribs are pre-formed as integral protrusions from the plate body during manufacturing, establishing the contact geometry in advance. This preliminary formation of contact structures simplifies the assembly process and ensures consistent contact uniformity without requiring complex post-manufacturing adjustments or high-precision fitting operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of manufacture

If traditional connection methods are used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but heat dissipation efficiency deteriorates due to low contact quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidheat dissipation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The ribs are designed with curved or rounded contact surfaces rather than flat planes, allowing them to conform to the hash board surface topology. This curvature enables better contact adaptation and tighter thermal coupling without requiring high manufacturing precision, thereby maintaining manufacturing simplicity while significantly improving heat dissipation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Solution Approach 2:

The design transitions from a two-dimensional planar contact interface to a three-dimensional structure with vertically protruding ribs. This dimensional change creates multiple contact points at different heights and positions, enhancing thermal contact quality and heat dissipation efficiency while keeping the overall manufacturing process relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

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

Enhances heat conduction and dissipation efficiency by ensuring uniform and flexible contact between heat dissipation assemblies and hash boards, reducing manufacturing complexity and improving thermal performance.

Implementation Method 1

a spring of each of the first spring bolts is pressed against a surface of the first substrate where no first chip strips are arranged

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

the plurality of first ribs are in contact with the plurality of first chip strips in one-to-one correspondence

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThermal conduction: Conduction (thermal)

Data Source

PatentEP4668061A1Computing and heat dissipation integrated unit and electronic device
Publication Date: 2025.12.24 BITDEER SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY PTE LTD
  • EP4668061A1 patent drawingFigure 1
  • EP4668061A1 patent drawingFigure 2
  • EP4668061A1 patent drawingFigure 3~4

AI summary

Disclosure are a computing and heat dissipation integrated unit and an electronic device. The unit includes a first hash board and a heat dissipation assembly. A plurality of first ribs are juxtaposed on a first plate surface of the heat dissipation assembly. The first hash board includes a first substrate, a plurality of first chip strips are arranged on a first surface of the first substrate, and a number of the first chip strips is equal to a number of the first ribs. The first plate surface of the heat dissipation assembly and the first substrate are connected by at least two groups of first spring bolts. Two groups of the at least two groups of first spring bolts are respectively disposed in the first plate surface outside two outermost first ribs.