Vehicle thermal management system
AssigneeThermal Corp.
InventorNelson Gernert
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Abstract
A heat transfer system includes a heat source, a first heat exchanger coupled to the heat source to remove heat from the heat source, and a second heat exchanger coupled to the first heat exchanger to remove heat from the first heat exchanger. The heat transfer system also includes a thermal doubler coupled to the second heat exchanger to remove heat from the second heat exchanger, a first heat pipe coupled to the thermal doubler to remove heat from the thermal doubler, and a second heat pipe coupled to the first heat pipe to remove heat from the first heat pipe.
Claims18
1-20. (canceled)
A heat transfer system comprising:
- a deck having a first heat pipe;
- an electronics enclosure secured to the deck;
- a heat-generating electronics device located within the electronics enclosure;
- an encapsulated graphite material establishing thermal transfer from the heat-generating electronics device and a wall of the electronics enclosure;
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- at least one of a second heat pipe, the encapsulated graphite material, a thermal doubler, and a thermal strap establishing heat transfer from the electronics enclosure to the first heat pipe.
A heat transfer system including:
- a first heat pipe having an evaporator that is elongated in a direction;
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- a second heat pipe that is elongated in the direction and that is in heat transfer relationship with the first heat pipe along a common length of the first and second heat pipes;
- wherein the second heat pipe is shorter than the first heat pipe and is positioned to receive heat from a heat source that is localized to a fraction of the length of the second heat pipe, and to distribute the heat to a larger length of the first heat pipe.
A heat transfer system comprising:
- a heat source;
- a first heat exchanger thermally coupled to the heat source to remove heat from the heat source;
- a second heat exchanger thermally coupled to the first heat exchanger to remove heat from the first heat exchanger, the second heat exchanger including an electronics chassis that defines an opening to receive the heat source;
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- at least one heat transfer device coupled to at least one wall of the electronics chassis, the heat transfer device selected from the group consisting of a heat pipe and an annealed pyrolytic graphite material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.