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US 5,314,011 AGranted
Heat pipe
AssigneeERNO Raumfahrttechnik GmbH
InventorsBernhard Leidinger, Ruediger Meyer, Klaus P. Nickel
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AssigneeERNO Raumfahrttechnik GmbH
InventorsBernhard Leidinger, Ruediger Meyer, Klaus P. Nickel
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A heat pipe is divided longitudinally by a divider wall into a vapor channel and into a liquid channel. The divider wall is provided, preferably at uniform axial spacings with bulges that form a restriction in the flow cross-sectional area of the vapor channel and an increase in the flow cross-sectional area of the liquid channel. A small diameter through bore is positioned at the peak of each bulge to connect the liquid channel with the vapor channel at this point. The reduced pressure at the restriction in the vapor channel is sufficient to suck gas or vapor bubbles collected under the bulge into the vapor channel, but insufficient to pull liquid into the vapor channel. The cross-sectional flow area of the liquid channel increases steadily toward each bulge, either from a point centrally between two bulges or from a point directly downstream of a bulge toward the next bulge as viewed in the flow direction of the liquid.
A heat pipe having a first pipe end with a higher temperature and a second pipe end with a temperature lower than said higher temperature, comprising a hollow conduit closed at both ends, a divider wall dividing said hollow conduit into a first channel for conveying a heat exchange fluid in its vapor state from said first pipe end to said second pipe end and a second channel for conveying said heat exchange fluid in its liquid state from said second pipe end to said first pipe end, said divider wall comprising bulges therein reaching into said first channel for forming flow restrictions in said first channel for said vapor and for forming an increased flow cross-sectional area in said second channel for said liquid, said bulges being spaced by a lengthwise spacing in said hollow conduit, said divider wall further comprising through bores in said bulges for interconnecting said first and second channels.
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