Multi-channeled loop heat transfer device with high efficiency fins
First Claim
1. A multi-channeled loop heat transfer device designed to transport heat through phase change of working fluid within one loop, comprising:
- an evaporating section and a condensing section, each of said evaporating and condensing sections consisting of a plurality of fluid supply flattened tubes, with a plurality of oblique louver fins externally attached to said flattened tubes and individually having a plurality of strips cut at an angle of attack relative to a main gas flow, each of said flattened tubes having a multi-channeled fluid path therein for accomplishing both capillary pumping effect and vapor feeding effect with a wick structure being set within the multi-channeled fluid path, said flattened tubes being parallely arranged between upper and lower fluid supply headers while being inserted into and held by the headers at opposite ends thereof; and
a vapor pipe and a liquid pipe individually extending between said evaporating and condensing sections, thus forming a closed circuit for heat transfer working fluid, whereby said device forms active vortices and breaks boundary layer growth on the fin outside of the flattened tubes, thus having an improved heat transfer rate.
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Abstract
This invention provides a multi-channeled loop heat transfer device with high efficiency fins. In this device, each of the evaporating and condensing sections is fabricated using parallel, multi-channeled flattened tubes. This device has a liquid-pumping capillary wick within each channel of the flattened tubes. The wick is allowed to act as a fluid diode within a heat transport loop only when a minus temperature gradient is maintained in the liquid in the upstream of the boundary layer and in the vapor in the downstream of the boundary layer. In this device, the vapor pipe is separated from the liquid pipe, with the temperature of the vapor pipe always maintained higher than that of the liquid pipe. The liquid is thus allowed to always flow from the condensing section into the liquid pipe due to vapor pressure of the vapor pipe. This device is also automatically restarted without failure when thermal load acts on the device after a complete stop of the device.
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1. A multi-channeled loop heat transfer device designed to transport heat through phase change of working fluid within one loop, comprising:
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an evaporating section and a condensing section, each of said evaporating and condensing sections consisting of a plurality of fluid supply flattened tubes, with a plurality of oblique louver fins externally attached to said flattened tubes and individually having a plurality of strips cut at an angle of attack relative to a main gas flow, each of said flattened tubes having a multi-channeled fluid path therein for accomplishing both capillary pumping effect and vapor feeding effect with a wick structure being set within the multi-channeled fluid path, said flattened tubes being parallely arranged between upper and lower fluid supply headers while being inserted into and held by the headers at opposite ends thereof; and
a vapor pipe and a liquid pipe individually extending between said evaporating and condensing sections, thus forming a closed circuit for heat transfer working fluid, whereby said device forms active vortices and breaks boundary layer growth on the fin outside of the flattened tubes, thus having an improved heat transfer rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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