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US 7,111,394 B2Granted
Hybrid loop heat pipe
AssigneeThermal Corp.
InventorKevin L. Wert
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Abstract
A heat pipe assembly (100) has a combined reservoir (102) and evaporator (104), the evaporator (104) having ducts of a vapor manifold (106) that exhausts vapor toward the condenser (108) instead of opposing the flow of liquid condensate to the reservoir (102), and the evaporator (104) having a wick passage that impels the condensate toward the reservoir (102) instead of opposing the flow of vapor.
Claims6
A method of making a heat pipe assembly, comprising the steps of:
- making a combined reservoir and evaporator wick;
- connecting a liquid return artery and a liquid return passage extending through the evaporator wick;
- surrounding the artery and the combined reservoir and evaporator wick with an outer tube having a condenser;
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- sealing the outer tube after evacuating the outer tube and back filling the liquid return artery with a quantity of working fluid.
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