Fluid based thermal conductivity control

Abstract

A temperature control system may include a compartment having at least one side with low thermal conductivity and a side with a double wall, the double wall having an interior wall and an exterior wall, the interior wall and the exterior wall having high thermal conductivity and forming a channel therebetween and a reservoir connected to the channel. A drive may be contained within the reservoir, wherein the drive is responsive to a temperature within the compartment to transfer a liquid with high thermal conductivity from the reservoir into the channel to increase thermal conductivity between the interior of the compartment and the exterior of the compartment, and allows a gas with low thermal conductivity to be present within the channel when the channel does not contain the liquid to decrease thermal conductivity between the interior of the compartment and the exterior of the compartment.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.