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AssigneeMainstream Engineering Corporation
InventorsBrian P. Tucker, Joshua D. Sole, Justin J. Hill, Robert P. Scaringe
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A window assembly heat transfer system is disclosed in which a window member has a selected transparency to monitored or sensed light wavelengths. One or more passages are provided in the window member for flowing a single-phase or two-phase heat transfer fluid, the passages being optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths. A mechanism allows either evaporation or condensation of the fluid and/or balancing of a flow of the fluid within the passages. In one embodiment, the window assembly can be made by producing passages in a top surface of a first single plate, optionally producing passages in a bottom surface of a second single plate and bonding the top surface of the first plate to a bottom surface of a second single plate to form the window member with the passage or passages. In another embodiment, the window assembly can be made by providing a core around which the window member material is grown and thereafter removing the core to produce the passage or passages.
A method for producing a window member comprised of a material having a selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and at least one cooling passage arranged within the window member and optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths, comprising (a) providing a core around which the window member material is grown and (b) thereafter removing the core to produce the at least one cooling passage:
A method for producing a window member comprised of a base material having a selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and at least one cooling passage arranged within the window member and optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths, comprising (a) locating a core on the base material (b) growing around the core a material which is one of the same material as the base or another material having a selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and (c) thereafter removing the core to produce the at least one cooling passage:
A method for producing a window member having sintering material formed around a core so that after sintering the material has a selected transparency to light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and at least one cooling passage that is optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths arranged within the window member, comprising (a) locating a core inside the sintering material before sintering (b) sintering the material to form a non-porous material with selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and (c) thereafter removing the core to produce the at least one cooling passage;
A method for producing a window member comprised of a base material having a selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and at least one cooling passage arranged within the window member and optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths, comprising (a) locating a core on the base material (b) growing around the core a material which is one of the same material as the base or another material having a selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and (c) thereafter removing the core to produce the at least one cooling passage:
A method for producing a window member having sintering material formed around a core so that after sintering the material has a selected transparency to light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and at least one cooling passage that is optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths arranged within the window member, comprising (a) locating a core inside the sintering material before sintering (b) sintering the material to form a non-porous material with selected transparency to the light wavelengths to be monitored or sensed and (c) thereafter removing the core to produce the at least one cooling passage:
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