IP Library Granted Patent US 7,487,643
Granted Patent B2
US 7,487,643 · App. 10/565,304 · Granted Feb 10, 2009

Loop type thermo syphone, heat radiation system, heat exchange system, and stirling cooling chamber

Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent No.
US 7,487,643
App. No.
10/565,304
Granted
Feb 10, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A natural circulation circuit includes an evaporator surrounding a heat radiating portion of a Stirling refrigerating machine to absorb heat of the heat radiating portion through evaporation of a coolant, a condenser arranged to be higher than the evaporator to condense the coolant having gas phase, a conduit guiding the coolant from the evaporator to the condenser, and a return pipe returning the liquefied coolant from the condenser to the evaporator. In the evaporator a distance between an opening of the return pipe and an inner circumferential surface of the evaporator is smaller than that between an opening of the conduit and the inner circumferential surface.

Claims (16)

1. A heat exchange system comprising:

an annular evaporator surrounding a heat radiating portion to have an axis extending horizontally to evaporate a coolant in said evaporator;

a condenser condensing said coolant;

a conduit guiding said coolant from said evaporator to said condenser; and a return pipe returning from said condenser to said evaporator said coolant condensed by said condenser, wherein

said conduit has an opening at an outer circumferential surface of said evaporator;

said return pipe has an opening in said evaporator at a gaseous coolant area;

said return pipe has said opening separated from said outer circumferential surface of said evaporator;

said conduit is larger in diameter than said return pipe;

said evaporator is divided into two sub evaporators;

said conduit and said return pipe are connected to each of said two sub evaporators; and

said two sub evaporators are coupled together by a connection pipe to allow said two sub evaporators to communicate a liquid coolant therebetween.

2. The heat exchange system according to claim 1 , wherein said conduit is connected to said evaporator at an said outer circumferential surface and said return pipe is connected to said evaporator at an axial end surface.

3. A Stirling refrigerator having said evaporator of the heat exchange system of claim 1 attached to a Stirling refrigerating machine at a heat radiating portion to allow the system to cool said heat radiating portion.

4. The heat exchange system according to claim 1 , wherein:

said two sub evaporators each have a circumferential end surface in said gaseous coolant area, and

said return pipe has said opening closer to said circumferential end surface than said opening of said conduit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 20, 2006
From: CHEN, WEI; MASUDA, MASAAKI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 017487/0310 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2003-200656 · Jul 23, 2003 · national
JP 2003-378369 · Nov 7, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20060185825A1 · Aug 24, 2006