ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARD SHIELDING WITH OPEN WINDOW HEAT TRANSFER PATH
An improved heat transfer system for components an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board, a component shield and a heatsink or heat spreader. An open heat transfer window is positioned in the component shield so as to enable the heat sink to directly contact a thermal pad for a component requiring heat dissipation. Grounding fingers between the shield and the heatsink may be provided to connect the shield to the heatsink, thereby protecting the component against electromagnetic interference and electrostatic discharge from the outside while preventing the component from leaking radio frequency radiation to the outside resulting from the creation of the open heat transfer window in the shield.
1 . An electronic device having a printed circuit board having one or more electronic components requiring heat dissipation, the electronic device comprising:
a shield configured to be positioned on at least a part of the printed circuit board and having one or more open heat transfer windows positioned over the one or more electronic components requiring heat dissipation; and
a heatsink having one or more surfaces configured to be positioned over the one or more open heat transfer windows in the shield.
2 . The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising one or more thermal pads having one side positioned directly on the one or more components requiring heat dissipation, said one or more surfaces of said heatsink physically contacting an opposing side of said one or more thermal pads through said one or more open heat transfer windows in the shield.
3 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the shield comprises one or more fingers positioned around the one or more open heat transfer windows, said one or more fingers being configured to make a physical and electrical connection with the heatsink to the shield when said one or more surfaces of said heatsink are positioned over said one or more open heat transfer windows in said shield.
4 . The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein said one or more fingers comprise one or more fingers positioned around a periphery of the one or more open heat transfer windows in said shield.
5 . The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein said one or more fingers are upwardly biased with respect to a planar surface of the shield to ensure electrical contact with the one or more surfaces of the heatsink.
6 . The electronic device of claim 3 , further comprising a spacing between said one or more fingers, said spacing being based on radio frequency wavelengths to be blocked by said shield.
7 . The electronic device of claim 6 , wherein said spacing is at least one tenth of a maximum of said radio frequency wavelengths to be blocked by said shield.
8 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more surfaces are configured to present one or more depressions in said heatsink.
9 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more surfaces are configured to be co-planar with said heatsink.
10 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more surfaces are configured to protrude from said heatsink.