HEAT PIPE COMPONENT DEPLOYED FROM A COMPACT VOLUME

• US 20060201654A1
• Filed: 05/31/2006
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kevin L. Wert
• Original Assignee: Kevin L. Wert
• Inventors: Wert, Kevin L.
• Application Number:
  US11/421,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20060201654A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 165/104.210
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/025 having non-capillary condensate return means
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/0266 with separate evaporating and condensing chambers connected by at least one conduit; Loop-type heat pipes; with multiple or common evaporating or condensing chambers F28D15/043 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 1/14 and extending longitudinally F28F1/38 takes precedence

Abstract

A component of a heat pipe assembly (100) has hollow fluid transport sections (108) communicating with hollow bendable fluid transport sections (110); the bendable fluid transport sections (110) being bendable to deploy the transport sections (108) from a compact volume.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A component of a heat pipe assembly comprising:

hollow rigid fluid transport sections communicating with hollow bendable fluid transport sections wherein the hollow bendable fluid transport sections are bendable to stack the rigid fluid transport sections in a compact volume; and

a liquid line and a fluid line extending through the hollow rigid fluid transport sections and hollow bendable fluid transport sections wherein the liquid line and fluid line are in a concentric relationship to one another.

21. The component of claim 20, further comprising a further bendable hollow fluid transport section connecting the component in a heat pipe assembly.

22. The component of claim 20, further comprising the component being a sub-cooler of a heat pipe assembly.

23. A heat pipe assembly comprising:

a hollow envelope having an evaporator and a condenser containing a quantity of working fluid;

hollow rigid fluid transport sections communicating with hollow bendable fluid transport sections wherein the hollow bendable fluid transport sections are bendable to stack the rigid fluid transport sections in a compact volume; and

a liquid line and a fluid line extending through the hollow rigid fluid transport sections and hollow bendable fluid transport sections wherein the liquid line and fluid line are in a concentric relationship to one another.