Patent ID: 6868898
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: F28D

Abstract:
1. A heat pipe, comprising: at least one outer structural wall having condenser, intermediate, and evaporator sections sequentially after one another; a wicking structure in the outer structural wall, including a plurality of wicking components onto which a fluid condenses at the condenser section when heat transfers therefrom out through the condenser section, flows thereon through the intermediate section, and evaporates at the evaporator section therefrom when heat transfers thereto through the evaporator section; and an elongate inner retaining wall bending with the outer structural wall, the wicking components being held in place between the intermediate section and an outer surface of the inner retaining wall and the fluid evaporating at the evaporator section recirculating past an inner surface of the inner retaining wall back to the condenser section with the inner retaining wall forming an elongate separation between the fluid flowing over the inner and outer surfaces thereof.