Patent ID: 7856949

Claim:
An arrangement for transferring heat from a first position located in a passageway defined by inner surface of a wall to a second position located adjacent outer surface of the wall, the arrangement comprising: an array of a plurality of elongated heat pipes mounted in the wall, each of the heat pipes having a first end in the first position and an opposite second end in the second position, wherein the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array are maintained in fixed relationship to one another by a connection selected from the group comprising: A. a plurality of heat conducing strips, each of the strips having a first end and an opposite second end with the first end of the strips contacting outer surface of a first one of the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array and the second end of the strips contacting outer surface of a second one of the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array, wherein the plurality of strips contacting the first one and the second one of the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array are spaced from one another, and B. the first end of each of the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array secured to a surface of a thermal conducting plate member to maintain the first end of the plurality of elongated heat pipes of the array in a fixed relationship to one another.