Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems that in the thermosiphon heat dissipation device in the prior art, a condenser occupies excessive height space above an evaporator, so that the whole height of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device is too large, and the space above the thermosiphon heat dissipation device cannot be fully utilized.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention provides a thermosiphon heat dissipation device, which comprises an evaporator, wherein the inner cavity of the evaporator is sequentially divided into a plurality of sub-cavities which are not communicated with each other from top to bottom in the vertical direction to form a plurality of sub-evaporators, the sub-cavities of each sub-evaporator are communicated with at least one condenser at the upper part of the sub-cavities through a steam pipe and a liquid pipe, and the sub-evaporators, the condensers, the steam pipe and the liquid pipe which are communicated with each other are vacuumized and then filled with working media;
When the heat source evaporator works, each sub-evaporator absorbs heat of a heat source and then evaporates the working medium therein, the evaporated working medium reaches a condenser communicated with the steam pipe through the steam pipe to be subjected to heat release and condensation, and then flows back to the sub-evaporator through the liquid pipe to form a plurality of sub-thermosiphon heat dissipation loops.
And the condensers on the evaporator are sequentially arranged into a plurality of layers in the height direction.
And the adjacent two condensers of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device are arranged in a V shape to form an included angle which is open towards the non-vertical direction.
And the condensers of all layers except the top layer of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device are positioned on the side face of the evaporator.
And the condensers on the evaporators are sequentially arranged along the horizontal direction, and all or part of other condensers except the condenser corresponding to the top sub-evaporator are positioned on the side surface of the evaporator.
And the thermosiphon heat dissipation device is characterized in that two adjacent condensers are spaced, and a baffle is arranged between the two adjacent condensers.
The heat siphon heat dissipation device is characterized in that the condenser is a parallel flow heat exchanger, and the parallel flow heat exchanger comprises an upper collecting pipe, a lower collecting pipe and a plurality of flat pipes which are arranged between the upper collecting pipe and the lower collecting pipe at intervals in parallel, wherein each flat pipe is communicated with the collecting pipe connected with the flat pipe, the liquid pipe is communicated with the lower collecting pipe, and the steam pipe is communicated with the upper collecting pipe.
The evaporator is provided with a heat absorbing surface which is in contact with a heat dissipating object, and the heat absorbing surface is vertical.
The liquid pipe and the steam pipe are welded at the open pore of the evaporator or the condenser of the heat siphon heat radiator through the adapter, the adapter is a metal part, through holes which are communicated with each other are formed in the first main surface and the second main surface which penetrate through the adapter, the shape of the first main surface is matched with the welding joint surface of the heat siphon heat radiator, the liquid pipe or the steam pipe is inserted into the through holes from the second main surface and welded, and the aperture of the through holes in the second main surface is larger than that of the first main surface.
The liquid pipe and the steam pipe are welded at the opening of the evaporator or the condenser of the heat-siphon heat-radiating device through the adapter, the adapter is a metal part, holes formed in the two mutually perpendicular first main surfaces and the second main surfaces of the adapter are crossed and communicated with each other, the shape of the first main surface is matched with the welding joint surface of the heat-siphon heat-radiating device, the liquid pipe or the steam pipe is inserted into the through hole from the second main surface and welded, the holes formed in the second main surface are designed in a variable diameter mode, and the aperture of the holes is reduced in the part.
According to the technical scheme, the beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:
the invention divides the single evaporator into a plurality of independent sub-evaporators, the heat source heat consumption distributed on the single sub-evaporator is only a part of the whole evaporator which is divided, and the size requirement of the corresponding condenser is greatly reduced, so that the height space occupied by the condenser is obviously reduced on the premise that the heat source distribution and the heat consumption are unchanged on the whole evaporator.
Because the invention only requires the sub-thermosiphon heat dissipation loop to satisfy the thermosiphon principle, i.e. the condenser is positioned above the sub-evaporator communicated with the sub-evaporator, the invention can break through the limitation condition that the condenser must be totally higher than the single evaporator, i.e. one condenser can be positioned at the side of the evaporator without being partially or totally higher than the evaporator, thereby the height space of the condenser occupying the upper part of the single evaporator is obviously reduced.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a prior art thermosiphon heat sink.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 1 of a thermosiphon heat dissipating device according to the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of one of the adaptor bases.
Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of another adapter.
Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a third adapter.
Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 2 of a thermosiphon heat dissipating device according to the present invention.
Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 3 of a thermosiphon heat dissipating device of the present invention.
The reference numerals are as follows, 1a, evaporator, 2a, condenser, 3a, steam pipe, 4a, liquid pipe, 1, thermosiphon heat dissipation device, 11, evaporator, 12, sub thermosiphon heat dissipation loop, 111, sub evaporator, 121, condenser, 1211, collecting pipe, 1212, flat pipe, 122, liquid pipe, 123, steam pipe, 13, liquid filling pipe, 15, adapter, 14, mounting hole, 16 and baffle.
Detailed Description
Exemplary embodiments that embody features and advantages of the present invention will be described in detail in the following description. It will be understood that the invention is capable of various modifications in various embodiments, all without departing from the scope of the invention, and that the description and illustrations herein are intended to be by way of illustration only and not to be construed as limiting the invention.
For the purpose of further illustrating the principles and structure of the present invention, preferred embodiments of the invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example 1.
Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the present embodiment provides a thermosiphon heat dissipation device 1, which can be used to achieve heat transfer and heat dissipation. The thermosiphon heat dissipation device 1 comprises an evaporator 11, wherein a horizontal partition plate is arranged in an inner cavity of the evaporator 11, a dashed line in fig. 2 indicates the position of the partition plate, the partition plate divides the inner cavity of the evaporator into two sub-cavities which are not communicated with each other and are distributed up and down to form a plurality of sub-evaporators 111, the cavity of each sub-evaporator 111 is communicated with at least one condenser 121 through a steam pipe 123 and a liquid pipe 122, one end of the condenser 121 is communicated with a liquid inlet of the sub-evaporator 111 matched with the condenser through the liquid pipe 122, and the other end of the condenser 121 is communicated with an air outlet of the sub-evaporator through the steam pipe 123. The sub-evaporator 111, the condenser 121, the steam pipe 123 and the liquid pipe 122 which are communicated with each other are filled with working medium after being vacuumized.
In operation, the working medium in each sub-evaporator 111 is vaporized after absorbing heat of a heat source, the vaporized working medium reaches a condenser 121 communicated with the sub-evaporator 111 through a steam pipe 123 for heat release and condensation, and the condensed working medium flows back to the sub-evaporator 111 of the evaporator 11 through a liquid pipe 122 to form a plurality of independent sub-thermosiphon heat dissipation loops 12.
On the premise of keeping the heat absorption surface area or the heat dissipation capacity of the evaporator 11 unchanged, the heat source heat consumption born by each sub-evaporator 111 is only a part of the whole evaporator 11, and the size requirement, particularly the length size, of the corresponding condenser 121 is greatly reduced, so that the height space occupied by the condenser 121 is greatly reduced on the premise of keeping the heat source distribution and the heat consumption unchanged on the whole evaporator 11. In this embodiment, the condensers 121 of the other layers except the top layer are all located on the side of the evaporator 11, so that the lower layer condenser 121 does not occupy the height space above the evaporator 11 except the uppermost condenser 121, and at the same time, since the size of each condenser 121 is reduced, the height of the uppermost condenser 121 above the evaporator 11 is also reduced, so that the height space above the evaporator 11 is not excessively occupied, and the overall height of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device 1 is prevented from being excessively large.
Based on the working principle of thermosiphon heat dissipation, in the present embodiment, the condenser 121 is higher than the sub-evaporator 111 that is connected to the condenser, and the air outlet on the same sub-evaporator 111 is higher than the liquid inlet. Meanwhile, in order to ensure the pressure balance in the thermosiphon circuit, gravity is needed to counteract the resistance of the working medium flowing in the condenser 121, so that the communication position between the same condenser 121 and the liquid pipe 122 is lower than the communication position between the same condenser 121 and the vapor pipe 123.
The height difference between the two communication positions of the condenser 121 and the liquid pipe 122 and the vapor pipe 123 is related to the heat source heat consumption of the corresponding sub-evaporator 111, and when the heat source heat consumption of the sub-evaporator 111 is small to a certain extent, the communication position of the condenser 121 and the liquid pipe 122 matched with the sub-evaporator 111 can be equal to be higher than the communication position of the condenser 121 and the vapor pipe 123. Preferably, when the heat source heat consumption of the uppermost sub-evaporator 111 in the evaporator 11 is small to a certain extent, the position of the condenser 121 communicated with the sub-evaporator 111, which is communicated with the liquid pipe 122, may be equal to the position of the condenser 121 communicated with the vapor pipe 123, and the condenser 121 communicated with the uppermost sub-evaporator 111 occupies substantially no or little height space above the evaporator 11.
In this embodiment, the evaporator 11 is divided into two sub-evaporators 111 arranged vertically by a horizontal partition plate. In practical application, the orientation and shape of the partition plate are not limited to this, and the partition plate may be inclined, even, the partition plate may be a non-flat plate, a non-regular plate, or any shape of partition plate, and the number of the partition plates is not limited to one, and may be plural, so long as the partition plate can divide the evaporator 11 into plural mutually independent sub-evaporators 111. For other types of evaporators, such as tube fin evaporators that absorb heat from air, tube spacers or the like are used to separate the evaporator chambers.
In this embodiment, the condenser 121 is a parallel flow heat exchanger, and the condenser 121 includes a pair of headers 1211 arranged in parallel and a plurality of flat tubes 1212 connected between the two headers 1211, where the plurality of flat tubes 1212 are arranged in parallel and spaced apart from each other. Each flat tube 1212 communicates with the header 1211 to which it is connected, the liquid tube 122 communicates with one of the headers 1211, and the vapor tube 123 communicates with the other header 1211. The two adjacent flat tubes 1212 of the parallel flow heat exchanger of the present invention may or may not have a secondary heat radiation fin for increasing the heat exchange area between the condenser 121 and the air.
The heat absorbing surface of the evaporator 11 in this embodiment is provided with mounting holes 14 for mounting heat components. The division of the evaporator 11 into a plurality of sub-evaporators 111 from the inside does not affect the layout convenience of the heat generating components mounted on the heat absorbing surface, and even the same heat generating component can be simultaneously mounted on the upper and lower sub-evaporators 111, the heat consumption of which is absorbed by both sub-evaporators 111 at the same time. When the thermal element is installed on the evaporator 11, the thermal element is fastened through the installation holes 14, so that a thermal interface material arranged between the heat absorption surface of the evaporator 11 and the bottom surface of the thermal element can be pressed tightly.
As shown in fig. 2 and 3, in the present embodiment, the condensers 121 on the evaporator 11 are sequentially arranged in multiple layers in the height direction, and this arrangement is advantageous in saving space in the height direction, making the condenser 121 arrangement more compact. The adjacent two condensers 121 are arranged in a V shape to form an included angle which is open towards the non-vertical direction, an air driving device can be arranged at the opening, and the two adjacent condensers 121 can be subjected to forced air cooling at the same time.
In this embodiment, each sub-thermosiphon circuit 12 is filled with working medium through a filling pipe 13. The liquid filling pipe 13 is communicated with the corresponding sub-thermosiphon loop, and the corresponding sub-thermosiphon loop is vacuumized through the liquid filling pipe 13 before the working medium is filled. The liquid filling pipe 13 of the present embodiment is disposed on the header 1211 of the condenser 121 of each sub-thermosiphon circuit 12, and the end of the liquid filling pipe 13 is sealed to the outside after the completion of the filling of the working medium. In practical applications, the charging pipe 13 may be disposed at any position of the sub-thermosiphon heat dissipation circuit.
The liquid pipe 122 and the vapor pipe 123 in this embodiment are connected to the sub-evaporator 111 and the condenser 121 through the adapter 15.
Referring to fig. 2, 3, 4 and 5, the adaptor 15 is a metal part, through which through holes are formed on the first main surface 152 and the second main surface 151, the shape of the first main surface 152 is adapted to the welding joint surface of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device, the liquid pipe 122 or the vapor pipe 123 is inserted into the through hole 1511 from the second main surface 151 and welded, the aperture of the through hole 1511 on the second main surface 151 is larger than that on the first main surface 152, so that the through hole 1511 forms a step at the position of reducing, and the step is capable of automatically limiting the insertion of the pipe. When the adapter 15 is fixed on the heat absorbing surface of the evaporator 11 of the thermosiphon heat sink, the first main surface 152 of the adapter 15 adapted to the adapter is a plane, and when the adapter 15 is fixed on the upper and lower collecting pipes 1211 of the condenser 121 of the thermosiphon heat sink, the first main surface 152 of the adapter 15 adapted to the adapter is an arc surface matched with the collecting pipes.
In the adapter shown in fig. 4 and 5, the first main surface 152 and the second main surface 151 are opposite to each other, in other embodiments, the first main surface 152 and the second main surface 151 may be perpendicular to each other, as shown in fig. 6, the adapter is provided with a hole 1521 and a hole 1511 on the first main surface 152 and the second main surface 151 perpendicular to each other, the two holes 1521 and 1511 are crossed and communicated inside the adapter, the shape of the first main surface 152 is adapted to the welding joint surface of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device, the liquid pipe 122 or the vapor pipe 123 is inserted into the through hole from the second main surface 151 and welded, the hole formed on the second main surface 151 adopts a reducing design, and the aperture is reduced inside the part.
The access mode is easy to position the vapor pipe 123 and the liquid pipe 122, and the situation of solder blockage can not occur in sealing welding after positioning. The adapter 15 is welded in advance at the liquid inlet and the gas outlet of the evaporator 11 and at the opening of the header 1211 of the condenser 121, respectively.
In the present embodiment, the evaporator 11, the condenser 121, the vapor pipe 123, the liquid pipe 122, and the adapter 15 are all made of aluminum alloy.
Example 2.
Referring to fig. 7, the thermosiphon heat dissipating device 1 in this embodiment is substantially the same as that of embodiment 1, except that the condensers 121 of this embodiment are arranged in sequence in the horizontal direction. The condensers 121 are arranged in order in the horizontal direction in a manner suitable for the flow of the external air through the condensers 121 in the vertical direction and for the natural heat dissipation of the air flow from bottom to top.
On the premise of keeping the heat absorbing surface area or the heat dissipating capacity of the evaporator 11 unchanged, the heat source heat consumption born by each sub-evaporator 111 is only a part of the whole evaporator 11, so that the size of the condenser 121 communicated with each sub-evaporator 111 is greatly reduced, and meanwhile, the left condenser 121 is mostly not higher than the evaporator but is positioned on the side surface of the evaporator, so that the height space above the evaporator 11 is not excessively occupied, and the whole height of the thermosiphon heat dissipating device 1 is prevented from being excessively large.
Example 3.
Referring to fig. 8, in another preferred embodiment, unlike fig. 7, adjacent condensers 121 are spaced apart from each other, and baffles 16 are provided between adjacent condensers 121. The baffle 16 can prevent the hot air exhausted from the condenser 121 from affecting each other, and further ensure the heat dissipation effect of the thermosiphon heat dissipation device 1.
While the invention has been described with reference to several exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the terminology used is intended to be in the nature of words of description and of limitation. As the present invention may be embodied in several forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof, it should also be understood that the above-described embodiments are not limited by any of the details of the foregoing description, but rather should be construed broadly within its spirit and scope as defined in the appended claims, and therefore all changes and modifications that fall within the meets and bounds of the claims, or equivalences of such meets and bounds are therefore intended to be embraced by the appended claims.