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US 8,286,694 B2Granted
Chemically compatible, lightweight heat pipe
AssigneeThermal Corp.
InventorsJohn H. Rosenfeld, G. Yale Eastman
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Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus including aluminum alloy vessel, the vessel including aluminum in combination with a gettering metal and a method for making such apparatus.
Claims4
A heat transfer device comprising:
- a vessel made from an aluminum alloy that includes a getter metal;
- the vessel having a hollow interior cavity;
- a working fluid is contained in the interior cavity, wherein a stable protective layer is formed from the getter metal and the working fluid on an inside wall of the cavity and wherein water is charged into the hollow interior cavity as the working fluid.
A heat transfer device comprising:
- a vessel made from an aluminum alloy that includes a getter metal;
- the vessel having a hollow interior cavity;
- a working fluid is contained in the interior cavity, wherein a stable protective layer is formed from the getter metal and the working fluid on an inside wall of the cavity;
- and wherein ammonia is charged into the hollow interior cavity as the working fluid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.