Phase change evaporator with heat-dissipating fins and phase change cooling device using the same
A phase change evaporator includes multiple heat-dissipating fins formed on an evaporator body of the evaporator. A cooling device includes the evaporator, a condenser, a coolant output pipe and a coolant return pipe connected between the evaporator and the condenser, and coolant filled inside a closed coolant circulation loop formed by the evaporator, the condenser, the coolant output pipe and the coolant return pipe. When the evaporator body absorbs heat, the coolant inside the evaporator body is converted into a gaseous state by the heat and then quickly dissipates the heat absorbed thereby through the heat-dissipating fins for a part of the gaseous coolant to be condensed to resume heat absorption and for the remaining part to flow to the condenser through the coolant output pipe to be condensed to a liquid state and return to the evaporator body along the coolant return pipe for heat absorption.
1. A phase change evaporator comprising:
an evaporator body having:
a space defined inside the evaporator body;
a partition board mounted in the space and dividing the space into a top chamber and a bottom chamber and having multiple through holes formed through the partition board for the top chamber and the bottom chamber to communicate with each other via the multiple through holes;
a coolant exit formed through a top wall of the top chamber of the evaporator body above the partition board and directly communicating with the top chamber; and
a coolant inlet formed through a sidewall of the bottom chamber of the evaporator body below the partition board and directly communicating with the bottom chamber, with the partition plate being intermediate the coolant exit and the coolant inlet;
a conducting bottom plate mounted on a bottom of the evaporator body and configured to absorb heat generated by a heat-generating source, with the coolant inlet located intermediate the bottom of the evaporation body and the partition board; and
multiple heat-dissipating fins conductively connected with a top surface of the conducting bottom plate not occupied by the evaporator body and the top wall of the evaporator body.
2. A phase change cooling device comprising:
the phase change evaporator as claimed in claim 1 ;
a condenser having:
a first condenser tube and a second condenser tube mounted vertically and spaced apart from each other;
multiple cooling ducts horizontally connected between the first condenser tube and the second condenser tube and spaced apart from one another; and
multiple condenser fins conductively contacting peripheries of corresponding cooling ducts;
a coolant output pipe with one end connected with the coolant exit of the evaporator body and with another end connected with the first condenser tube of the condenser;
a coolant return pipe with one end connected with the coolant inlet of the evaporator body and with another end connected with the second condenser tube of the condenser, wherein the condenser, the coolant output pipe and the coolant return pipe as a whole constitute a closed coolant circulation loop; and
coolant filled inside the closed coolant circulation loop.