US 7,320,178 B2
Standoff for cold plate and cold plate made with the standoff
Matthew J. Kirby, Bandera, Tex. (US); Jose L. Rodriguez, Fort Wayne, Ind. (US); and Miguel Angel Herrera Bucio, Jose Lopez Portillo Reynosa Tamaulipas (Mexico)
Assigned to IMI Cornelius Inc., Anoka, Minn. (US)
Filed on Jun. 04, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/860,950.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/480513, filed on Jun. 20, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0261266 A1, Dec. 30, 2004
Int. Cl. B23P 17/00 (2006.01); C21D 9/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 29—890.07  [29/890.03; 148/594; 148/604; 148/909; 165/172; 165/173; 174/15.1] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coil pack assembly for use in fabricating a cold plate, said coil pack assembly comprising: a coil pack formed in a desired configuration; a retaining wire that is wrapped around and retains said coil pack in a desired configuration in a subsequent casting of a molten material around said coil pack to form a cold plate and a standoff comprising an elongate body having a base end, an end opposite from said base end and a bore extending longitudinally through said body near said base end, said bore receiving said retaining wire therethrough to accommodate positioning said standoff along said retaining wire with said base end held by said retaining wire against said coil pack and said end opposite from said base end spaced from said coil pack by a height of said standoff.