Modular Cooling Rib Assembly for Compact Heat Dissipation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooling devices for technical components are often complex and costly to manufacture, limiting their design flexibility and cooling performance.
Innovation Solution
A multi-part cooling device comprising a main body and cooling-rib bodies with integrated fastening elements, allowing for a compact, cost-effective design with enhanced cooling performance through extrusion processes and modular construction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a cooling device is designed as a single integrated piece, then manufacturing complexity is reduced, but design flexibility and cooling performance are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling device is divided into multiple separable components: a main body and one or more cooling-rib bodies. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured independently using simple extrusion processes, while the assembly of multiple parts provides design flexibility and enhanced cooling performance that cannot be achieved with a single integrated piece.
2Reliability
If a cooling device uses complex geometric configurations to enhance cooling performance, then cooling efficiency improves, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Complex cooling geometries are achieved by assembling multiple extruded profiles (main body and cooling-rib bodies) rather than manufacturing a single complex piece. Each component maintains simple extrusion geometry for easy manufacturing, while their combination creates the desired complex cooling structure with enhanced thermal performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The extrusion process serves multiple functions: it manufactures each component with simple geometry, provides structural integrity, and enables precise dimensional control. This universal manufacturing approach achieves complex overall geometry through repeated application of a simple, cost-effective process.
3Reliability
If a cooling device is designed with multiple parts to improve cooling performance, then thermal energy transfer efficiency increases, but assembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening elements are designed to be self-aligning and self-securing, eliminating the need for complex assembly tools or precision alignment procedures. The complementary fastening features on the main body and cooling-rib bodies automatically engage when brought together, simplifying assembly while maintaining the multi-part structure for enhanced thermal performance.
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 enables the production of a compact, high-performance cooling device with improved thermal energy transfer and design flexibility, while reducing material complexity and manufacturing costs.
Implementation Method 1
thermal energy can be transferred between the cooling device or the separate object to be cooled provided with the cooling device and the ambient air surrounding the cooling device
Implementation Method 2
thermal energy can be transferred between the cooling device or the separate object to be cooled provided with the cooling device and the ambient air surrounding the cooling device
Data Source
AI summary
Cooling device for cooling a separate object to be cooled, in particular a technical component, wherein the cooling device comprises at least one cooling-rib body comprising a plurality of cooling ribs, and at least one main body that is open on at least one side, in particular when viewed in cross section, and defines a receiving space configured to receive at least one cooling-rib body, wherein the at least one cooling-rib body comprises at least one fastening element, which is configured to interact with the at least one main-body-side fastening element to form a fastening between the at least one cooling-rib body received in the receiving space and the main body, and the main body comprises at least one fastening element, which is configured to interact with at least one cooling-rib-body-side fastening element to form a fastening between the at least one cooling-rib body received in the receiving space and the main body.