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US 10,378,828 B2Granted
Anti-gravity heat pipe device
AssigneeCooler Master Co., Ltd.
InventorsChien-Hung Sun, Tzu-Wei Gu
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Abstract
A heat pipe device includes an outer pipe and at least one first capillary structure. The outer pipe is a hollow pipe and has a defined lengthwise direction, and the first capillary structure is accommodated along the lengthwise direction and positioned in the outer pipe, and at least one steam channel is formed between the first capillary structure and the outer pipe. Even if the heat pipe device is upside down, the heat pipe still can resist gravity and work normally to achieve the effect of using the heat pipe without being limited by the using direction.
Claims10
A heat pipe device, comprising:
- an outer pipe, being a hollow pipe, and having a defined lengthwise direction;
- at least one first capillary structure, accommodated along the lengthwise direction and positioned in the outer pipe, and at least one steam channel being formed along the lengthwise direction and between the at least one first capillary structure and the outer pipe;
- two second capillary structures, both disposed in the outer pipe, and wherein two opposite ends of the at least one first capillary structure where the first of the two opposite ends being coupled to the first of the second capillary structures and the second of the two opposite ends being coupled to the second of the second capillary structures;
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- at least one inner pipe, wound around the at least one first capillary structure, and with one of the two opposite ends of the at least one first capillary structure being exposed from either end of the at least one inner pipe respectively and communicated to the at least one steam channel through the respective second capillary structures, two ends of the at least one inner pipe directly and respectively contacting the two second capillary structures.
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