US20060260786A1 - Composite wick structure of heat pipe - Google Patents
Composite wick structure of heat pipe Download PDFInfo
- Publication number
- US20060260786A1 US20060260786A1 US11/134,339 US13433905A US2006260786A1 US 20060260786 A1 US20060260786 A1 US 20060260786A1 US 13433905 A US13433905 A US 13433905A US 2006260786 A1 US2006260786 A1 US 2006260786A1
- Authority
- US
- United States
- Prior art keywords
- woven mesh
- sintered
- layer
- wick structure
- heat pipe
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Abandoned
Links
Images
Classifications
-
- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
- F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
- F28D15/00—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies
- F28D15/02—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes
- F28D15/04—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes with tubes having a capillary structure
- F28D15/046—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes with tubes having a capillary structure characterised by the material or the construction of the capillary structure
Landscapes
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
- Sustainable Development (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Thermal Sciences (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Cooling Or The Like Of Semiconductors Or Solid State Devices (AREA)
- Cooling Or The Like Of Electrical Apparatus (AREA)
Abstract
A composite multi-layer wick structure includes a tubular member with an internal sidewall, and a composite wick structure including a multi-layer woven mesh and a sintered-powder layer. The multi-layer woven mesh is curled to cover on and extend over the internal sidewall. The sintered-powder layer is coated on a portion of the multi-layer woven mesh and the internal sidewall to extend along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member. By the strong capillary force provided by the sintered-powder layer, the working fluid at the liquid phase easily reflows back to the bottom of the heat pipe, such that the heat transmission efficiency is greatly enhanced.
Description
- The present invention relates in general to a composite wick structure of a heat pipe, and more particularly, to a composite wick structure fabricated from a multi-layer woven mesh and a sintered powder layer.
- Having the features of high heat transmission capability, high-speed heat conductance, high thermal conductivity, light weight, mobile-elements free, simple structure, the versatile application, and low power for heat transmission, heat pipes have been popularly applied in heat dissipation devices in the industry. The conventional heat pipe includes a wick structure on an internal sidewall of a tubular member. The wick structure typically includes a woven mesh or sintered powder to aid in transmission of working fluid.
- However, the woven mesh or the sintered powder each has advantages and drawbacks.
- For example, the fine and dense structure of the sintered-powder wick structure provides better capillary force for reflow of the liquid-state working fluid. However, during fabrication, an axial rod has to be inserted into the tubular member to serve as a support member of the wick structure during the sintering process, so as to avoid collapse of the powdered which has not been sintered yet. Therefore, the thickness of the sintered powder wick structure is thicker. Consequently, the capillary thermal resistance is increased to be disadvantageous to the heat transmission. Further, requirement of the axial rod hinders the mass production of the heat pipe and causes fabrication and quality issues of the heat pipe.
- The woven mesh wick structure does not require the axial rod, such that the problems of the sintered powder wick structure do not encounter. Further, the woven mesh wick structure is more easily to fabricate compared to the sintered-powder wick structure. However, as the woven mesh is made by weaving metal wires, the porosities are larger to provide a poor capillary effect. The working fluid is less easily to reflow, and the thermal conduction efficiency is affected.
- Thus, there still is a need in the art to address the aforementioned deficiencies and inadequacies.
- The present invention provides a composite wick structure of a heat pipe. The composite structure adapts the advantages of both the multi-layer woven-mesh and the sintered-powder wick structure, such that the transmission capability of the wick structure is maintained, and the heat conduction performance of the heat pipe is improved, while the problems caused by the axial rod are resolved.
- A heat pipe provided by the present invention includes a tubular member with an internal sidewall, and a composite wick structure including a multi-layer woven mesh and a sintered-powder layer. The multi-layer woven mesh is curled to cover on and extend over the internal sidewall. The sintered-powder layer is coated on a portion of the multi-layer woven mesh and the internal sidewall to extend along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member. By the strong capillary force provided by the sintered-powder layer, the working fluid at the liquid phase easily reflows back to the bottom of the heat pipe, such that the heat transmission efficiency is greatly enhanced.
- These and other objectives of the present invention will become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of preferred embodiments.
- It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
- These as well as other features of the present invention will become more apparent upon reference to the drawings therein:
-
FIG. 1 shows an exploded view of a multi-layer woven mesh installing in a heat pipe; -
FIG. 2 shows a cross sectional view of the heat pipe with the multi-layer woven mesh; -
FIG. 3 shows a cross sectional view of a composite wick structure attached to heat pipe; and -
FIG. 4 shows a cross sectional view along the longitudinal direction of the heat pipe in operation. - Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
-
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate an exploded view and a cross sectional view of a heat pipe with a multi-layer woven mesh, respectively. Theheat pipe 1 comprises atubular member 10 and themulti-layer woven mesh 110. - The
tubular member 10 is preferably in the form of a cylindrical hollow tube having aninternal sidewall 102 and twoopen ends tubular member 10 can be closed and sealed at bothends - Referring further to
FIG. 3 , acomposite wick structure 11 of the present invention attached to theinternal sidewall 102 of thetubular member 10 includes themulti-layer woven mesh 110 extending all over thesidewall 102 and a sintered-powder layer 111 formed on at least a portion of themulti-layer woven mesh 110 and thesidewall 102. Themulti-layer woven mesh 110 is first curled to be put into thetubular member 10 of theheat pipe 1. At this time, themulti-layer woven mesh 110 has not formed a close circumference. However, after a shrinking process, the circumference of themulti-layer woven mesh 110 will be close to form a cylindrical shape so that themulti-layer woven mesh 110 is securely attached on thesidewall 102 of theheat pipe 1. The sintered-powder layer 111 lays on a portion of themulti-layer woven mesh 110 and thesidewall 102 to extend along a longitudinal direction of thetubular member 10. As the sintered-powder layer 111 does not have to cover the whole area of themulti-layer woven mesh 110, that is, theinternal sidewall 102 of thetubular member 10, the traditional axial rod is not required. To form the sintered-powder layer 111, the powder to be sintered is disposed inside of thetubular member 10. Thetubular member 10 is laid down with the side at which sintered-powder layer 111 facing downwardly for performing sintering. - By the above processes, a composite wick structure is obtained.
- Together referring to
FIGS. 3 and 4 , when a heat source starts to generate heat, the working fluid in the heat pipe absorbs the heat and is evaporated into a gas. The gas is then condensed into a liquid absorbed by thewick structure 11 around theinternal sidewall 102 of thetubular member 10. Meanwhile, the sintered-powder layer 111 has the better capillary effect to instantly reflow the work fluid back to the location of the heat source. On the other hand, some liquid working fluid at thewoven mesh 110 will also flow to the sintered-powder layer 111 along circular direction because the flowing rate is faster at sintered-powder layer 111. Thereby, the reflow speed of the working fluid is greatly increased to enhance the heat transmission efficiency. - Therefore, the
composite wick 11 of theheat pipe 1 includes both the advantages of themulti-layer woven mesh 110 and the sintered-powder layer 111. The sintered-powder layer 111 provides better capillary force for reflow of the liquid-state working fluids without need of the axial rod anymore. Meanwhile, themulti-layer woven mesh 110 is convenient for installation with secure attachment to thesidewall 102 of thetubular member 10. Themulti-layer woven mesh 110 is not easy to collapse when a high-temperature annealing process is performed so that thewick structure 11 will have a reliable support. - This disclosure provides exemplary embodiments of wick structure of a heat pipe. The scope of this disclosure is not limited by these exemplary embodiments. Numerous variations, whether explicitly provided for by the specification or implied by the specification, such as variations in shape, structure, dimension, type of material or manufacturing process may be implemented by one of skill in the art in view of this disclosure.
Claims (2)
1. A heat pipe comprising:
a tubular member with an internal sidewall; and
a composite wick structure including a multi-layer woven mesh curled to cover on and extend over the internal sidewall, and a sintered-powder layer coated on a portion of the multi-layer woven mesh and the internal sidewall to extend along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member.
2. The heat pipe of claim 1 , wherein the multi-layer woven mesh is formed a cylindrical shape to securely attached to the tubular member.
Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
US11/134,339 US20060260786A1 (en) | 2005-05-23 | 2005-05-23 | Composite wick structure of heat pipe |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
US11/134,339 US20060260786A1 (en) | 2005-05-23 | 2005-05-23 | Composite wick structure of heat pipe |
Publications (1)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
---|---|
US20060260786A1 true US20060260786A1 (en) | 2006-11-23 |
Family
ID=37447258
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
---|---|---|---|
US11/134,339 Abandoned US20060260786A1 (en) | 2005-05-23 | 2005-05-23 | Composite wick structure of heat pipe |
Country Status (1)
Country | Link |
---|---|
US (1) | US20060260786A1 (en) |
Cited By (9)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US20070039718A1 (en) * | 2005-08-17 | 2007-02-22 | Ming-Chih Chen | Heat pipe and manufacturing method for the same |
US20070267179A1 (en) * | 2006-05-19 | 2007-11-22 | Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. | Heat pipe with composite capillary wick and method of making the same |
US20080105405A1 (en) * | 2006-11-03 | 2008-05-08 | Hul-Chun Hsu | Heat Pipe Multilayer Capillary Wick Support Structure |
US20080142196A1 (en) * | 2006-12-17 | 2008-06-19 | Jian-Dih Jeng | Heat Pipe with Advanced Capillary Structure |
US20090294104A1 (en) * | 2008-05-08 | 2009-12-03 | Kuo-Len Lin | Vapor chamber |
US20110088874A1 (en) * | 2009-10-20 | 2011-04-21 | Meyer Iv George Anthony | Heat pipe with a flexible structure |
US8587944B2 (en) | 2009-04-01 | 2013-11-19 | Harris Corporation | Multi-layer mesh wicks for heat pipes |
DE102013103840A1 (en) * | 2013-04-16 | 2014-10-16 | Benteler Automobiltechnik Gmbh | Evaporator tube for arrangement in an exhaust system and method for producing the evaporator tube with a porous sintered structure and steam channels |
ES2554550A1 (en) * | 2014-01-20 | 2015-12-21 | Alex Hanganu Research, S.L. | High thermal conductance device for multi-effect water desalination systems (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
Citations (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US4565243A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1986-01-21 | Thermacore, Inc. | Hybrid heat pipe |
US20050022984A1 (en) * | 2003-06-26 | 2005-02-03 | Rosenfeld John H. | Heat transfer device and method of making same |
US20050247436A1 (en) * | 2004-04-23 | 2005-11-10 | Hul-Chun Hsu | Wick structure of heat pipe |
US20060180296A1 (en) * | 2005-02-17 | 2006-08-17 | Yuh-Cheng Chemical Ltd. | Heat pipe |
US20060196641A1 (en) * | 2005-01-28 | 2006-09-07 | Chu-Wan Hong | Screen mesh wick and method for producing the same |
US20060196640A1 (en) * | 2004-12-01 | 2006-09-07 | Convergence Technologies Limited | Vapor chamber with boiling-enhanced multi-wick structure |
-
2005
- 2005-05-23 US US11/134,339 patent/US20060260786A1/en not_active Abandoned
Patent Citations (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US4565243A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1986-01-21 | Thermacore, Inc. | Hybrid heat pipe |
US20050022984A1 (en) * | 2003-06-26 | 2005-02-03 | Rosenfeld John H. | Heat transfer device and method of making same |
US20050247436A1 (en) * | 2004-04-23 | 2005-11-10 | Hul-Chun Hsu | Wick structure of heat pipe |
US20060196640A1 (en) * | 2004-12-01 | 2006-09-07 | Convergence Technologies Limited | Vapor chamber with boiling-enhanced multi-wick structure |
US20060196641A1 (en) * | 2005-01-28 | 2006-09-07 | Chu-Wan Hong | Screen mesh wick and method for producing the same |
US20060180296A1 (en) * | 2005-02-17 | 2006-08-17 | Yuh-Cheng Chemical Ltd. | Heat pipe |
Cited By (12)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US20070039718A1 (en) * | 2005-08-17 | 2007-02-22 | Ming-Chih Chen | Heat pipe and manufacturing method for the same |
US20070044308A1 (en) * | 2005-08-17 | 2007-03-01 | Ming-Chih Chen | Heat pipe and manufacturing method for the same |
US20070267179A1 (en) * | 2006-05-19 | 2007-11-22 | Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. | Heat pipe with composite capillary wick and method of making the same |
US7802362B2 (en) * | 2006-05-19 | 2010-09-28 | Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. | Method of making heat pipe having composite capillary wick |
US20080105405A1 (en) * | 2006-11-03 | 2008-05-08 | Hul-Chun Hsu | Heat Pipe Multilayer Capillary Wick Support Structure |
US20080142196A1 (en) * | 2006-12-17 | 2008-06-19 | Jian-Dih Jeng | Heat Pipe with Advanced Capillary Structure |
US20090294104A1 (en) * | 2008-05-08 | 2009-12-03 | Kuo-Len Lin | Vapor chamber |
US7913748B2 (en) * | 2008-05-08 | 2011-03-29 | Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd. | Vapor chamber |
US8587944B2 (en) | 2009-04-01 | 2013-11-19 | Harris Corporation | Multi-layer mesh wicks for heat pipes |
US20110088874A1 (en) * | 2009-10-20 | 2011-04-21 | Meyer Iv George Anthony | Heat pipe with a flexible structure |
DE102013103840A1 (en) * | 2013-04-16 | 2014-10-16 | Benteler Automobiltechnik Gmbh | Evaporator tube for arrangement in an exhaust system and method for producing the evaporator tube with a porous sintered structure and steam channels |
ES2554550A1 (en) * | 2014-01-20 | 2015-12-21 | Alex Hanganu Research, S.L. | High thermal conductance device for multi-effect water desalination systems (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
Similar Documents
Publication | Publication Date | Title |
---|---|---|
US20060260786A1 (en) | Composite wick structure of heat pipe | |
US20100263835A1 (en) | Heat pipe | |
US8590601B2 (en) | Sintered heat pipe | |
US8622117B2 (en) | Heat pipe including a main wick structure and at least one auxiliary wick structure | |
US6997243B2 (en) | Wick structure of heat pipe | |
TW201408978A (en) | Heat pipe and manufacturing method thereof | |
US20120227934A1 (en) | Heat pipe having a composite wick structure and method for making the same | |
US20120325440A1 (en) | Cooling device | |
KR20210033493A (en) | Heat pipe with variable transmittance wick structure | |
US20060011328A1 (en) | Wick structure of heat pipe | |
TWM375205U (en) | Flat hot pipe | |
US9102020B2 (en) | Manufacturing method of thin heat pipe | |
US7134485B2 (en) | Wick structure of heat pipe | |
US20220390185A1 (en) | Heat pipe with capillary structure | |
TWI457528B (en) | Plate type heat pipe | |
KR101097390B1 (en) | Heat pipe with double pipe structure | |
JP2013242135A (en) | Heat pipe | |
US10724803B2 (en) | Heat pipe and method for making the same | |
US20140345137A1 (en) | Method for manufacturing flat heat pipe with sectional differences | |
JP2009115346A (en) | Heat pipe | |
JP3175221U (en) | Heat pipe structure | |
CN205980896U (en) | High temperature cooling tube | |
US20120037344A1 (en) | Flat heat pipe having swirl core | |
CN102636059A (en) | Heat pipe with compounding capillary and manufacturing method thereof | |
TWI530655B (en) | Plate type heat pipe |
Legal Events
Date | Code | Title | Description |
---|---|---|---|
AS | Assignment |
Owner name: JAFFE LIMITED, VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:SHU, HUL-CHUN;REEL/FRAME:016596/0689 Effective date: 20050421 |
|
STCB | Information on status: application discontinuation |
Free format text: ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION |