Cooling device
According to one embodiment, a cooling device includes a heat releasing element including a surface configured to contact a heat generating element and an internal fluid channel configured to flow a cooling medium. The cooling device also includes a plurality of cooling fins within the fluid channel, each of which extends in a direction crossing a flow direction of the cooling medium and has a zigzag, corrugated shape defined by multiple bent portions.
1. A cooling device comprising:
a heat releasing element including a surface configured to contact a heat generating element, and an internal fluid channel configured to flow a cooling medium; and
a plurality of cooling fins within the fluid channel, the plurality of cooling fins each extending in a direction crossing a flow direction of the cooling medium and having a zigzag, corrugated shape defined by multiple bent portions viewed from the flow direction,
wherein the plurality of cooling fins comprise:
a plurality of first cooling fins aligned at predetermined pitches in a direction transverse to the flow direction, and
a plurality of second cooling fins next to the first cooling fins in the flow direction and aligned at predetermined pitches in the direction transverse to the flow direction, the second cooling fins facing the respective first cooling fins in the flow direction, and each of the second cooling fins having a horizontally flipped shape of a corresponding first cooling fin.
2. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat releasing element and the cooling fins are integral and seamlessly formed through additive manufacturing with a metal material.
3. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein
a stage of the first cooling fins and a stage of the second cooling fins are formed within the fluid channel, the first cooling fins being aligned at the predetermined pitches in the direction transverse to the flow direction in the stage of the first cooling fins, and the second cooling fins being aligned at the predetermined pitches in the direction transverse to the flow direction in the stage of the second cooling fins, and
the stage of the first cooling fins and the stage of the second cooling fins are alternately provided multiple times in the flow direction within the flow channel.
4. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein
in the zigzag, corrugated shape of each of the cooling fins, an extending part between adjacent two of the bent portions is inclined relative to the direction transverse to the flow direction.