Heat transfer device
OwnerJames C. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Fletcher, Larry R. Eatoninventors
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Abstract
An improved heat transfer device particularly suited for use as an evaporator plate in a diffusion cloud chamber. The device is characterized by a pair of mutually spaced heat transfer plates, each being of a planar configuration, having a pair of opposed surfaces defining therebetween a heat pipe chamber. Within the heat pipe chamber, in contiguous relation with the pair of opposed surfaces, there is disposed a pair of heat pipe wicks supported in a mutually spaced relationship by a foraminous spacer of a planar configuration. A wick including a foraminous layer is contiguously related to the external surfaces of the heat transfer plates for uniformly wetting these surfaces.
Claims3
In a diffusion cloud chamber, an improved internally supported heat transfer device comprising:
- A. means including a pair of mutually spaced heat transfer plates, each being of a planar configuration, having a pair of opposed first surfaces defining therebetween a heat pipe chamber;
- B. means defining a pair of mutually spaced heat pipe wicks disposed within said chamber and contiguously related to said pair of first surfaces;
- C. means defining a foraminous spacer of a planar configuration interposed between said wicks in contiguous supporting engagement therewith;
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- D. means externally related to said chamber for uniformly wetting a selected portion of a second surface of each heat transfer plate, opposite to the first surface thereof, comprising a foraminous sheet contiguously related thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.