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US 6,786,386 B2Granted
Soldering iron with heat pipe
AssigneeHakko Corporation
InventorMitsuhiko Miyazaki
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Abstract
A soldering iron comprises a tip end; a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron; a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion: a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion; a first heat pipe holder for holding a frontal portion of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred; a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear part of the heat pipe structure; and a grip portion placed externally around the first heat pipe holder.
Claims19
A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a user's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use:
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure;
- wherein the heat pipe structure includes a plurality of sealed heat pipes, each of which contains water therein and the contained water can be movable within the heat pipe.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a user's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use:
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure;
- wherein the heat pipe structure includes two sealed heat pipes, each of which includes water therein and the contained water can be movable within the heat pipe.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a user's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use:
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure;
- wherein said first heat pipe holder is generally a hollow cylinder having an outer surface formed with a plurality of straight grooves extending along the longitudinal direction each of which has a dimension to accommodate the front end of the sealed heat pipe.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a user's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use:
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure;
- wherein said second heat pipe holder is generally of a hollow cylinder formed with a plurality of straight holes extending along the longitudinal direction of the soldering iron each of which has a dimension to accommodate the rear end of the sealed heat pipe therein.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a user's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use:
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater K portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure;
- wherein the first heat pipe holder is placed in the holding portion and the position of the grip area of the holding portion along a longitudinal direction of the soldering iron substantially corresponds to the area of the first heat pipe holder along the longitudinal direction of the soldering iron;
- and
- wherein the sealed heat pipe is made of copper or copper alloy.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion, said holding portion including a grip area where a use's hand grips on when the soldering iron is in use;
- a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion including a plurality of sealed heat pipes, each of which contains a fluid therein and the contained fluid can be movable within the heat pipe, and said each of the heat pipes originally has a circular cross section and has an oval shape in cross section when the heat pipe is placed in the holding portion;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding a front end of the heat pipe structure to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder for holding a rear end of the heat pipe structure.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion including:
- a heat pipe structure having at least one heat pipe provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding the front end of the heat pipe to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- a grip portion placed externally around the first heat pipe holder;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder, provided at the rear end of said holding portion, for holding the rear end of the sealed heat pipe structure;
- wherein said first heat pipe holder is generally of a hollow cylinder having an outer surface formed with a plurality of straight grooves extending along the longitudinal direction each of which has a dimension to accommodate the front end of the sealed heat pipe.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion including:
- a heat pipe structure having at least one heat pipe provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding the front end of the heat pipe to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- a grip portion placed externally around the first heat pipe holder;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder, provided at the rear end of said holding portion, for holding the rear end of the sealed heat pipe structure;
- wherein the sealed heat pipe is made of copper or copper alloy.
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A soldering iron comprising:
- a tip end;
- a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron;
- a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion including:
- a heat pipe structure having at least one heat pipe provided in the holding portion, said heat pipe structure includes a sealed heat pipe having a chamber including a fluid therein;
- a first heat pipe holder for holding the front end of the heat pipe to which heat generated at the heater portion is transferred;
- a grip portion placed externally around the first heat pipe holder;
- and
- a second heat pipe holder, provided at the rear end of said holding portion, for holding the rear end of the sealed heat pipe structure;
- wherein both of the first and the second heat pipe holders are made of aluminum or aluminum alloy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.