Thermal module
First Claim
1. A thermal module used to contact a heat source with a heat surface, the thermal module comprising a vapor chamber having multiple sub-vapor chambers, each vapor chamber comprising an independent compartment, adjoining each other, and a single partition board disposed between each two sub-vapor chambers to partition the sub-vapor chambers, each sub-vapor chamber communicating with an open end of at least one independent heat pipe extending laterally from a side of each sub-vapor chamber, the open end communicating with a heat pipe chamber in the heat pipe, whereby the sub-vapor chambers communicate with separate heat pipe chambers, respectively;
- wherein the heat surface of the heat source has a plurality of sections having different temperatures, and a sub-vapor chamber is respectively in alignment and contact with each of the plurality of different temperature sections of the heat surface of the heat source.
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Abstract
A thermal module includes a housing having multiple independent compartments not in communication with each other. Each compartment communicates with an open end of at least one heat pipe. The open end communicates with a heat pipe chamber in the heat pipe, whereby the independent compartments communicate with the heat pipe chambers.
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13 Claims
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1. A thermal module used to contact a heat source with a heat surface, the thermal module comprising a vapor chamber having multiple sub-vapor chambers, each vapor chamber comprising an independent compartment, adjoining each other, and a single partition board disposed between each two sub-vapor chambers to partition the sub-vapor chambers, each sub-vapor chamber communicating with an open end of at least one independent heat pipe extending laterally from a side of each sub-vapor chamber, the open end communicating with a heat pipe chamber in the heat pipe, whereby the sub-vapor chambers communicate with separate heat pipe chambers, respectively;
wherein the heat surface of the heat source has a plurality of sections having different temperatures, and a sub-vapor chamber is respectively in alignment and contact with each of the plurality of different temperature sections of the heat surface of the heat source. - View Dependent Claims (2, 11, 12)
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3. A thermal module used to contact a heat source with a heat surface, the thermal module comprising:
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a vapor chamber having multiple sub-vapor chambers, each sub-vapor chamber comprising an independent compartment, adjoining each other, and a single partition board in between each two sub-vapor chambers to partition the sub-vapor chambers, and each sub-vapor chamber containing therein a separate working fluid and the vapor chamber having a bottom section, one face of the bottom section being a bottom face of the individual sub-vapor chambers, the other face of the bottom section being a heat contact face; and multiple independent first heat pipes, each first heat pipe being connected with and extending laterally from a side of one of the sub-vapor chambers, each first heat pipe having a first open end and a first closed end opposite to the first open end, the first heat pipe defining a first heat pipe chamber therein in communication with the first open end, the first open end and the first heat pipe chamber communicating with the sub-vapor chambers, wherein vapor-liquid circulations of the working fluids contained in the sub-vapor chambers independently operate within the sub-vapor chambers and the first heat pipe chambers to provide both the heat spreading function of the vapor chamber and the remote end heat transfer function of the heat pipes; wherein the heat surface of the heat source has a plurality of sections having different temperatures, and a sub-vapor chamber is respectively in alignment and contact with each of the plurality of different temperature sections of the heat surface of the heat source. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13)
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