Cooling unit

• US 6,564,861 B1
• Filed: 04/12/2000
• Issued: 05/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Ryuuji, Suzuki, Masumi, Hirano, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUONG, THO V
• Application Number:
  US09/548,426
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 165/185, 165/104.21, 165/104.29, 165/104.14, 165/104.33, 257/715, 361/700, 361/702
• US Class Current: 165/104.29
• 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: H01L 23/427 Cooling by change of state, e.g. use of heat pipes by liquefied gas H01L23/445
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00

Abstract

A cooling unit has a heat receiving unit that receives heat from a body radiating heat; a radiator disposed at a distance from the heat receiving unit and radiating recovered heat; a liquid coolant transporting heat generated at the heat receiving unit to the radiator; and a hollow tube disposed so that the liquid coolant circulates between the heat receiving unit and the radiator, a circulating flow of the liquid coolant formed by an elevating force of air bubbles generated from the heat received at the heat receiving unit, the radiator having an air pocket forming one part of the circulation path of the liquid coolant together with the hollow tube and capable of collecting the air bubbles.

Claims

1. A cooling unit comprising:

a heat receiving unit that receives heat from a body radiating heat, said heat receiving unit having an exterior;

a radiator unit disposed at a distance from the heat receiving unit and radiating recovered heat;

a liquid coolant transporting heat generated at the heat receiving unit to the radiator unit; and

a hollow tube having a curved portion and two end portions, said curved portion disposed lower than said two end portions when the cooling unit is oriented with the heat receiving unit lower than the radiator unit, said curved portion disposed at least partially against the heat receiving unit so that the liquid coolant circulates between the heat receiving unit and the radiator unit due to the liquid coolant in one end portion posing less flow resistance than the liquid coolant in the other end portion, said curved portion also disposed lower than two parts of the hollow tube at positions at the exterior of the heat receiving unit, a first of said two parts being between the curved portion and one of said two end portions, and a second of said two parts being between the curved portion and the other of said two end portions,

a circulating flow of the liquid coolant formed by an elevating force of bubbles formed from vaporization of the coolant generated from the heat received at the heat receiving unit, the radiator unit having a pocket forming one part of a circulation path of the liquid coolant together with the hollow tube and capable of collecting the bubbles.