MOLDED HOUSING WITH INTEGRAL HEATSINK

摘要

A plastic housing assembly is constructed with a non-plateable plastic wall portion (101), and a plateable plastic wall portion (107) positioned abutting (109) the non-plateable plastic wall portion (101). The plateable plastic wall portion (107) has a via (115) disposed therethrough for thermally coupling an outer surface (111) to an inner surface (113). A heat-generating component (119) is disposed coupled to the second inner surface (113). The via (115) is preferably plated with metal so that heat produced from the heat-generating component (119) is conducted away from the inner surface (113) to the outer surface (111).