Active heat sink
CA 2447415 A1 · Owner: Ats Automation Tooling Systems, Inc. · Inventors: Armstrong, Ross
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A cooling device is provided for dissipating heat from a heat source such as, e.g. an integrated circuit. The cooling device includes a heat sink having a, fin structure, a blower assembled with the heat sink for moving air through the, fin structure, and a spring attachment mechanism for clamping the heat sink to the heat source.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 30, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 30, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 30, 2025.
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