Extreme thermal energy rejection radiator

Abstract

A vehicle is provided which includes an engine and a radiator. The radiator with circulating coolant fluid includes a plurality of embedded heat pipes each having (a) a body with first and second opposing ends, (b) a wicking material, and (c) a thermal transfer fluid, wherein said body of said heat pipe encloses an interior volume, and wherein said wicking material and said working fluid are disposed in said interior volume of said heat pipe. The first end of the heat pipe extracts heat from the engine, and the second end of the heat pipe transfers heat from the heat pipe to an atmosphere external to the engine. The heat transfer fluid transfers heat from the first end of said heat pipe to the second end of said heat pipe, and the wicking material transfers the heat transfer fluid from the second end of the heat pipe to the first end of the heat pipe.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.