U.S. patent application number 11/109806 was filed with the patent office on 2006-10-26 for heat disspiating system and device.
Invention is credited to Chin-Chang Huang.
Application Number | 20060236717 11/109806 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 37185425 |
Filed Date | 2006-10-26 |
United States Patent
Application |
20060236717 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Huang; Chin-Chang |
October 26, 2006 |
Heat disspiating system and device
Abstract
The present invention discloses a heat dissipating system and
device. The heat dissipating system includes a compressor having
two pipelines; a heat dissipating for connecting a first combining
tube of one of the two pipelines from the compressor, a plurality
of heat dissipating fins disposed between the first combining tube
and a second combining tube with the same shape of the first
combining tube for defining a multilayer channel with the internal
sides of the first and second combining tubes, two pipelines
connected externally and separately to the second combining tube;
an expansion valve; and an evaporator. The compressor is used for
dispersing the heat of a conductive medium of a cooling fluid to
conduct the heat of a heat source and lower the temperature of the
heat source, so as to enhance the heat dissipation and performance
of the heat dissipating system.
Inventors: |
Huang; Chin-Chang; (Tainan
County, TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH
PO BOX 747
FALLS CHURCH
VA
22040-0747
US
|
Family ID: |
37185425 |
Appl. No.: |
11/109806 |
Filed: |
April 20, 2005 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
62/513 ;
62/498 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F28D 1/05391 20130101;
F25B 40/06 20130101; F28F 9/0204 20130101; F25B 39/04 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
062/513 ;
062/498 |
International
Class: |
F25B 1/00 20060101
F25B001/00; F25B 41/00 20060101 F25B041/00 |
Claims
1. A heat dissipating system, comprising: a compressor, having two
pipelines disposed separately on a side of said compressor; a heat
dissipating device, for connecting a first combining tube of one of
said two pipelines from said compressor and defining a multilayer
channel by the internal sides of said first combining tube and a
second combining tube with the same shape of said first combining
tube and a plurality of heat dissipating fins, and said second
combining tube having two pipelines separately and externally
coupled to said second combining tube; an expansion valve, having
an end coupled to said pipeline of said second combining tube of
said heat dissipating device and said pipeline coupled to said
expansion valve; and an evaporator, having an inlet disposed at an
end and coupled to said pipeline on said expansion valve and an
outlet disposed at another end and coupled to another pipeline of
said second combining tube of said heat dissipating device to
define a circulated heat dissipating channel.
2. A heat dissipating device, comprising: a plurality of heat
dissipating fins, having an upper and a lower circuits, and said
upper and lower circuits are not interconnected; two combining
tubes, engaged with said plurality of heat dissipating fins; a
horizontal partition, disposed in the middle of said two combining
tubes and defining an upper space and a lower space; a connecting
pipe, disposed separately at upper and lower opposite corners of
said two combining tubes, a plurality of embedding holes, disposed
at an external side of said two combining tubes, a plurality of
rectangular holes, disposed at an internal side, such that said
plurality of embedding holes and said plurality of rectangular
holes engage a plurality of vertical partitions with said plurality
of heat dissipating fins; and a cover, disposed separately at an
end of said two combining tubes.
3. The heat dissipating device of claim 2, wherein said combining
tube is an ellipsoid.
4. The heat dissipating device of claim 3, wherein said combining
tube is a tetrahedron and has a cover disposed at a distal end of
said combining tube.
5. The heat dissipating device of claim 2, wherein said vertical
partition has a side with the shape of an air pipe.
6. The heat dissipating device of claim 5, wherein said vertical
partition has a circular hole thereon.
7. The heat dissipating device of claims 2 or 4, wherein said cover
has a protruded member disposed at one side and coupled with said
upper and lower spaces of said two combining tubes.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention generally relates to a heat
dissipating system and device, and more particularly to a heat
dissipating system that effectively lowers the temperature of a
heat source and improves the heat dissipating performance by using
a compressor to carry a cooling fluid to disperse the heat produced
by the heat source.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] As components of air conditioners or heaters used for
automobiles and home electric appliances are developed rapidly, the
heat produced by such applicants becomes more and the internal
temperature of the automobiles and home electric appliances also
increases and seriously affects the stability of the operation of
electronic components. Therefore, manufacturers usually build
ventilation holes or a fan on a sidewall of the automobile and home
electric appliances to enhance air convection, so that the hot air
in automobile and home electric appliances can be discharged to the
outside rapidly to assure the stability of the operation of
electronic components.
[0003] At present, computer applications are used extensively in
all areas of our life. As the speed of data processing is increased
constantly, the heat produced during the operation of computer
devices is increased as well. Thus, finding a solution for timely
dissipating the heat for a normal computer operation demands
immediate attention.
[0004] The structure of prior art heat dissipating devices used for
personal computers or notebook computers generally includes a
plurality of vertical heat dissipating fins connected to the top of
a metal base and a plane disposed at the bottom of the base. An
eccentric tool is used to install the heat dissipating device onto
a heat generating component in a computer, such that the lower
plane surface is in close contact with the heat generating
component. A fan is mounted onto the heat dissipating fins. When
the computer is operating, the heat produced by the computer
components passes through the plane of the heat dissipating device
to the base of the heat dissipating device according to the
principle of heat conduction. The heat is further conducted to the
heat dissipating fins and carried away by the air flow of the fan.
Such arrangement simply relies on the efficiency of the thermal
conduction of the metal and depends on the thermal conductivity of
the material of the heat dissipating device. Since the thermal
conductivity of a solid is low, the prior art heat dissipating
device gives poor heat dissipating effects and has low
practicability.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0005] The primary objective of the present invention is to
overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by providing a heat
dissipating system and device, wherein the heat dissipating system
comprises two pipelines separately installed on a side of a
compressor and connected to an end of a heat dissipating device,
and the other end of the heat dissipating device includes two
pipelines, and one of the two pipelines is connected to an
expansion valve and then to an evaporator, and the other one of the
two pipelines is connected to the evaporator, such that the heat
dissipating system is fixed onto the internal surface of the air
conditioner or heater of automobile and home electric appliances or
computer systems. The heat produced by these appliances passes
through the plurality of heat dissipating fins of the heat
dissipating device, and the heat is dispersed by the operation of
conductive media in an upper and a lower circuits.
[0006] Unlike the prior art fans or heat dissipating devices, the
present invention has a heat dissipating effect as follows:
[0007] The heat dissipating device of the invention has a plurality
of heat dissipating fins with non-interconnected upper and lower
circuits and these heat dissipating fins are coupled with the
combining tubes on both sides. A multilayer channel is partitioned
by the horizontal partition and the plurality of vertical
partitions of the two combining tubes, and the compressor is used
to absorb, discharge and reabsorb the heat by the liquid-gas-liquid
circulating mode of a cooling fluid. The operating heat produced by
the heat source of the electronic components is absorbed by the
foregoing heat dissipating fins. Therefore, a large amount of heat
energy produced by the heat source is carried away rapidly that
changes the traditional heat dissipating method of using a single
metal conduction and thus greatly improves the stability of the
operation of electronic components and the heat dissipating
performance.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] FIG. 1 is a schematic installation view of a heat
dissipating system of the present invention;
[0009] FIG. 2 is a perspective exploded view of a heat dissipating
device of the present invention;
[0010] FIG. 3A is a perspective view of a heat dissipating device
of the present invention;
[0011] FIG. 3B is a schematic enlarged view of engaging a partition
as depicted in FIG. 3A;
[0012] FIG. 4 is a schematic view illustrating the movement of
conductive media of the present invention;
[0013] FIG. 5 is a top view illustrating the movement of conductive
media of the present invention;
[0014] FIG. 6 is a bottom view illustrating the movement of
conductive media of the present invention;
[0015] FIG. 7 is a perspective exploded view of a second preferred
embodiment of the present invention; and
[0016] FIG. 8 is a perspective exploded view of a third preferred
embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0017] To make it easier for our examiner to understand the
objective of the invention, its structure, innovative features, and
performance, we use a preferred embodiment and the attached
drawings for the detailed description of the invention.
[0018] Referring to FIG. 1, the present invention is applied for
the electronic components of an air conditioner or a heater of
automobile and home electric appliances or computer systems and
other equipments with a heat source. The invention is used to
reduce the heat source and improve the heat dissipation and
operating performance of a heat dissipating system 1. The heat
dissipating system 1 comprises: a compressor 2 having two pipelines
20, 21 separately disposed on a side of the compressor 2, a heat
dissipating device 3 for connecting a first combining tube 30 of
one of the two pipelines 20, 21 from the compressor 2 and defining
a multilayer channel by the internal sides of the first combining
tube 30 and a second combining tube 31 having the same shape of the
first combining tube 30 and a plurality of heat dissipating fins 31
disposed in the middle of the first and second combining tubes 30,
31 and having non-interconnected upper and lower circuits 340, 341,
wherein the first combining tube 30 has two pipelines 20, 21
separately and externally coupled to an inlet 200 and an outlet 210
of the two pipelines 20, 21 which are installed separately on a
side of the compressor 2; an expansion valve 4 having an end
coupled to a pipeline 32 of the second combining tube 31 of the
heat dissipating device 3 and a pipeline 40 coupled to the
expansion valve 4; and an evaporator 5 having an inlet 50 disposed
at an end and coupled to the pipeline 40 on the expansion valve 4
and an outlet 51 disposed at another end and coupled to another
pipeline 33 of the second combining tube 31 of the heat dissipating
device 3 to define a circulated heat dissipating channel.
[0019] The foregoing combining tubes 30, 31 (as shown in FIGS. 2,
3A, 3B and 4) on both sides are ellipsoids or tetrahedrons. Upper
spaces 3001, 3101 and lower spaces 3002, 3102 are partitioned by
horizontal partitions 3000, 3100 disposed in the middle of the two
combining tubes 30, 31, and connecting pipes 300, 301, 310, 311 are
disposed at the upper and lower opposite corners of the two
combining tubes 30, 31. The two combining tubes 30, 31 have a
plurality of embedding holes 302, 312 disposed on the external side
and a plurality of rectangular holes 303, 313 disposed on the
internal side, such that the plurality of embedding holes 302, 312
and the plurality of rectangular holes 303, 313 at their internal
side can be engaged with a plurality of vertical partitions 35 and
a plurality of heat dissipating fins 34 of the same shape. The two
combining tubes 30, 31 at their respective end have a cover 36 with
a protruded member 360 coupled to the upper and lower spaces 3001,
3101, 3002, 3102 of the two combining tubes 30, 31.
[0020] Referring to FIGS. 3A, 3B and 4, the plurality of vertical
partitions 35 is inserted into the plurality of the embedding holes
302, 312 disposed on the external side of the two combining tubes
30, 31 of the foregoing heat dissipating device 3, and the cover 36
is installed at the distal ends of the two combining tubes 30, 31.
In the meantime, the plurality of rectangular holes 303, 313
disposed on the internal sides of the two combining tubes 30, 31 is
coupled with the plurality of heat dissipating fins 34 to define a
circulating channel, such that the heat dissipating system 1 can
effectively dissipate the heat of a heat source (as indicated by
the arrows in FIG. 4). Upper and lower circuits 340, 341 of the
plurality of heat dissipating fins 34 of the heat dissipating
device 3 are operated in the two combining tubes 30, 31 having a
multilayer channel, so as to improve the heat dissipating
performance of the plurality of heat dissipating fins 34 and the
two combining tubes 30, 31.
[0021] Referring to FIGS. 1 and 4, the compressor 2 disposed at one
side of the heat dissipating system 1 dissipates the heat produced
during the operation of the heat generating components such as the
air conditioner or heater of automobile and home electric
appliances or electronic components of computer systems by
circulating conductive media of a cooling fluid (as indicated by
the arrows in FIG. 4). The cooling fluid passes through the outlet
200 of the pipeline 20 disposed at one side of the compressor 2 to
the first combining tube 30 disposed at an end of the heat
dissipating device 3. The cooling fluid enters a connecting pipe
300 above the combining tube 30 through the upper space 3001
partitioned by the horizontal partition 3000 in a horizontal
direction to an inlet 3400 at an end of the upper circuit 340 of
the heat dissipating fins 34, so that the heat is dispersed by the
conductive media (as indicated by the arrows in FIG. 4) through an
outlet 3401 at another end of the heat dissipating fins 34 to the
second combining tube 31 disposed at another end of the heat
dissipating device 3, and then discharged from the upper space 3101
partitioned by the horizontal partition 3100 in a horizontal
direction. The cooling fluid is returned through a connecting pipe
310 above the combining tube 31 to an inlet 4000 disposed at an end
of an expansion valve 4 which is connected to the pipeline 32, and
the pipeline 40 goes through an outlet 401 above the expansion
valve 4 and then enters into the evaporator 5 from the inlet 50 at
an end of the evaporator 5. The cooling fluid passes through
another outlet 51 at another end of the evaporator 5. Another
pipeline 33 is used to send the cooling fluid from another end of
the second combining tube 31 into the lower space 3102 partitioned
by the horizontal partition 3100 in a horizontal direction, and
then the cooling fluid passes through an inlet 3410 at another end
of the lower circuit 341 of the heat dissipating fins 34 to an
outlet 3411 at another end of the heat dissipating fins 34 and then
flows into the lower space 3002 partitioned by the horizontal
partition 3000 in a horizontal direction of the first combining
tube 30 at another end of the heat dissipating device 3. At last,
the cooling fluid flows into the inlet 210 at an end of another
pipeline 21 of the first combining tube 30 and out from an outlet
211 at another end of another pipeline 21 into the compressor 2, so
as to define a circulated channel. Therefore, the heat of the heat
source (as indicated by the arrows in FIGS. 5 and 6) is dispersed
from the multilayer channel formed by the plurality of heat
dissipating fins 34 and the horizontal partitions 3000, 3100 and
the plurality of vertical partitions 35 of the two combining tubes
30, 31. The conductive media of the cooling fluid in the plurality
of heat dissipating fins 34 absorbs the heat transmitted from the
heat generating components, and the low-temperature accessories of
the heat dissipating device cools down the temperature by
converting the cooling fluid from a gaseous state into a liquid
state in order to release the heat to the heat dissipating device
3. The conductive media go through the changes of liquid-gas-liquid
phases for repeatedly carrying out the process of
absorbing-releasing-reabsorbing heat, and finally the heat is
carried away by the air flow of a fan through the heat dissipating
device 3. With the dual heat dissipating effects, the heat
dissipation of the heat dissipating device 3 is improved
greatly.
[0022] Referring to FIG. 7, this embodiment is substantially the
same as the embodiment as illustrated in FIG. 2 with an exception
of having a circular hole 350a on the vertical partition 35a.
[0023] Referring to FIG. 8, this embodiment is substantially the
same as the embodiment as illustrated in FIG. 2 with an exception
of having air pipes 30a, 31a in the square shape, wherein the two
air pipes 30a, 31a have horizontal partitions 300a, 310a to
separate upper spaces 301a, 311a and lower spaces 302a, 312a, and a
cover 32a with a protruded member 320a disposed at the two
combining tubes 30a, 31a and coupled to the upper and lower spaces
301a, 311a, 302a, 312a of the two combining tubes 30a, 31a.
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