Seagate Assigned Patent for Sinking Heat

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,144,432) developed by Rick Pfahl Freeman, Northfield, MN., Michael H. Lennard, Lyons, CO, and Andy M. Motzko, Delano, MN, for a sinking heat from an integrated circuit to an actuator.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An actuator for selectively positioning a portion of a communication channel formed by a cable circuit having a protuberant component connected at a proximal end to a flexible base, whereby the actuator defines a heat transfer surface operably disposed in thermal conductivity with a distal surface of the protuberant component for sinking heat from the component to the actuator."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2007 (11/948,022).