Method for combining axially heated heat pipes and heat-conducting base

• US 7,900,353 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2006
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jaffe Limited
• Original Assignee: Jaffe Limited
• Inventors: Hsu, Hul-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Bryant; David P
• Assistant Examiner(s): CIGNA, JACOB JAMES
• Application Number:
  US11/465,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20080047139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,664 Days
• Field of Search: 294/37, 294/44, 295/15, 298/37, 298/38, 298/44, 298/90, 228/115, 228/119, 228/212
• US Class Current: 29/890
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 15/26 heat exchangers or the like making heat exchangers by methods covered by other subclasses B21D53/02
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 2700/09 Heat pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/0275 Arrangements for coupling heat-pipes together or with other structures, e.g. with base blocks; Heat pipe cores
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 1/32 the means having portions engaging further tubular elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49345 Catalytic device making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4935 Heat exchanger or boiler making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49353 Heat pipe device making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49364 Tube joined to flat sheet longitudinally, i.e., tube sheet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49373 Tube joint and tube plate structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49393 with metallurgical bonding
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49845 by deforming interlock
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49908 Joining by deforming
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49925 Inward deformation of aperture or hollow body wall
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49968 Metal fusion joining

Abstract

A method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base includes the steps of preparing a heat-conducting base and a plurality of heat pipes, providing a plurality of penetrating holes on a surface of the heat-conducting base, inserting one end of each heat pipe into the individual penetrating hole of the heat-conducting base, performing a lateral pressing to the heat-conducting base so as to bring each heat pipe into a tight and planar contact with the wall of each corresponding penetrating hole in the direction of pressing, and grinding the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base to become a flat surface to make the end of each heat pipe flush with the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base.

Claims

1. A method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base, comprising the steps of:

preparing a heat-conducting base with a bottom surface to be heated for adhering onto a heat source and a heat-dissipating surface opposite to the bottom surface, and a plurality of heat pipes each with an end to be heated and a condensed end opposite to the end to be heated;

providing a plurality of penetrating holes on the heat-dissipating surface of the heat-conducting base, and inserting the end to be heated of each heat pipe into a corresponding penetrating hole of the heat-conducting base, an axial direction of the end to be heated of the heat pipe being substantially identical to that of the corresponding penetrating hole and substantially perpendicular to the heat-dissipating surface;

performing a lateral pressing to the heat-conducting base so as to bring each heat pipe into a tight and planar contact with the wall of the corresponding penetrating hole in a direction of pressing; and

grinding the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base to become a flat surface to make an end portion of the end to be heated of each heat pipe flush with the bottom surface of the heat-conducting base, so that the end portion of the end to be heated of each heat pipe is directly heated by the heat source,

wherein the heat-dissipating surface is substantially a round surface and one of the penetrating holes is located at a center of the round surface and other penetrating holes are arranged at different circles with the same center of the round surface.

2. The method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base according to claim 1, wherein the heat-conducting base is made of aluminum or copper.

3. The method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base according to claim 1, wherein each penetrating hole is a through hole or blind hole.

4. The method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base according to claim 1, wherein a heat-conducting paste is applied between the end to be heated of each heat pipe and the penetrating hole so as to fill a gap therebetween.

5. The method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base according to claim 1, wherein a soldering material is heated to be molten and thus filled into a gap between the end to be heated and the penetrating hole.

6. The method for combining axially heated heat pipes and a heat-conducting base according to claim 5, wherein the soldering material is a soldering paste.