Anti-gravity heat pipe device
A heat pipe device includes an outer pipe and at least one first capillary structure. The outer pipe is a hollow pipe and has a defined lengthwise direction, and the first capillary structure is accommodated along the lengthwise direction and positioned in the outer pipe, and at least one steam channel is formed between the first capillary structure and the outer pipe. Even if the heat pipe device is upside down, the heat pipe still can resist gravity and work normally to achieve the effect of using the heat pipe without being limited by the using direction.
1. A heat pipe device, comprising:
an outer pipe, being a hollow pipe, and having a defined lengthwise direction;
at least one first capillary structure, accommodated along the lengthwise direction and positioned in the outer pipe, and at least one steam channel being formed along the lengthwise direction and between the at least one first capillary structure and the outer pipe;
two second capillary structures, both disposed in the outer pipe, and wherein two opposite ends of the at least one first capillary structure where the first of the two opposite ends being coupled to the first of the second capillary structures and the second of the two opposite ends being coupled to the second of the second capillary structures; and
at least one inner pipe, wound around the at least one first capillary structure, and with one of the two opposite ends of the at least one first capillary structure being exposed from either end of the at least one inner pipe respectively and communicated to the at least one steam channel through the respective second capillary structures, two ends of the at least one inner pipe directly and respectively contacting the two second capillary structures.
2. The heat pipe device of claim 1 , the outer pipe having a first inner end and a second inner end opposite to each other, and the two second capillary structures being disposed in the first inner end and the second inner end respectively.
3. The heat pipe device of claim 2 , wherein each of the second capillary structures has at least one recess, and the two ends of the at least one first capillary structure are plugged into the at least one recess of each second capillary structure for positioning.
4. The heat pipe device of claim 2 , wherein the two second capillary structures and the at least one first capillary structure are the same or different capillary structures.
5. The heat pipe device of claim 2 , further comprising a third capillary structure disposed on an inner wall of the outer pipe and coupled between the two second capillary structures.
6. The heat pipe device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one steam channel is formed between the outer pipe, the at least one inner pipe, and the two second capillary structures.
7. The heat pipe device of claim 1 , wherein the external periphery of the at least one first capillary structure and the inner wall of the outer pipe are spaced apart from each other.
8. The heat pipe device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one first capillary structure is a solid capillary structure.
9. The heat pipe device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one first capillary structure is a powder sintered capillary structure or a bundled metal mesh capillary structure.
10. The heat pipe device of claim 1 , wherein the first capillary structure and the inner pipe installed therein come with a plural quantity, and each of the inner pipes is wound around each the first capillary structure.