CN217236570U

CN217236570U - Flat-plate pulsating heat pipe, flat-plate heat exchanger and flat-plate pulsating heat pipe radiator

Info

Publication number: CN217236570U
Application number: CN202220019808.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 魏辉
Original assignee: Suzhou Toplusca Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Toplusca Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-06
Filing date: 2022-01-06
Publication date: 2022-08-19
Anticipated expiration: 2032-01-06

Abstract

The utility model discloses a flat pulsating heat pipe, which comprises a flat pipe and two end plates, wherein the flat pipe is internally provided with channels which are parallel to each other, the number of the channels is 4-50 and is even, the end plates are positioned at the two ends of the flat pipe and serially connect the internal pipelines of the flat pipe into a single runner, a technical hole is arranged on one end plate, and a sealing structure is arranged at the technical hole; the hydraulic diameter of the channel inside the flat tube is 0.3-4 mm, the dividing wall of the channel inside the flat tube is grooved inwards from the port, the grooving depth is not more than 20mm and not less than 1mm, the two ends of the channel are grooved at intervals respectively, an internal hollow structure is arranged at the joint of the end plate with the fabrication hole and the flat tube, the end plate is inserted into the flat tube, and the insertion distance is not less than 1 mm; the hydraulic diameter of the inner channel of the flat tube is 0.3-4 mm, the flat tube design is adopted, the end plate can be directly made into a heat collection end of the flat plate type pulsating heat pipe according to needs, the end plates with different thicknesses are adopted according to different calorific values, the end plates are fully contacted with the outer surface of the flat tube, the contact thermal resistance is reduced, and the advantages of the pulsating heat pipe are better exerted.

Description

Flat-plate pulsating heat pipe, flat-plate heat exchanger and flat-plate pulsating heat pipe radiator

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a technical field is used in the heat transfer, especially relates to a flat plate heat exchanger of plate pulsating heat pipe and flat plate pulsating heat pipe radiator.

Background

In transportation, aerospace and industrial processes, heating or cooling of equipment systems or working media is often required. The pulsating heat pipe is also called as an oscillating heat pipe or a self-oscillating heat pipe, which was proposed for the first time by scholars Akachi in 1990, and has a history of more than twenty years so far, and the potential high heat exchange effect and the lower manufacturing cost thereof become hot spots of current research.

Patent CN203148276U describes a parallel flow pulsating heat pipe, a serpentine arrangement is adopted, patent CN203215636 proposes to add fins between the parallel flow pulsating heat pipes to enhance heat dissipation, patent CN112964104A proposes a heat pipe heat exchanger, which is also a serpentine arrangement, a serpentine pulsating heat pipe often needs a longer flat pipe in manufacture compared with a traditional parallel flow heat exchanger, especially when a larger radiator is applied, such as a serpentine pulsating heat pipe two meters long, the length of a single pulsating pipeline often reaches 80 meters or even hundreds of meters, the system running resistance is large, a large cycle often cannot be formed, but oscillation running of a hot area and a cold area is formed, and the heat dissipation effect of the pulsating heat pipe is reduced. In addition, the above patents have unclear description on how to connect the pipelines inside the parallel pipes in series to form a single flow passage, and have difficulty in implementation, which also hinders the large-scale market application of the parallel flow pulsating heat pipe.

Meanwhile, when the heat exchanger is used as a radiator, the end face of the serpentine pulsating heat pipe is a curved surface, fins cannot be added in the arc surface to enhance heat exchange, the arc surface is not easy to be in close contact with a heating body on the end face, and although the heat exchange energy of the pulsating heat pipe is strong, the performance of the pulsating heat pipe is greatly influenced by the contact thermal resistance of the end face.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model mainly solves the technical problem of providing a flat pulsating heat pipe, comprising a flat pipe and two end plates, wherein the flat pipe is internally provided with channels which are parallel to each other, the number of the channels is 4-50 and is an even number, the end plates are positioned at two ends of the flat pipe and serially connect the inner pipelines of the flat pipe into a single runner, one end plate is provided with a process hole for extracting vacuum and injecting a heat pipe working medium, and the process hole is led out and is provided with a sealing structure after the working medium is filled; the hydraulic diameter of the channel inside the flat tube is 0.3-4 mm, the dividing wall of the channel inside the flat tube is grooved inwards from the port, the grooving depth is not more than 20mm and not less than 1mm, the two ends of the channel are grooved at intervals respectively, a hollow structure is arranged at the joint of the end plate with the fabrication hole and the flat tube, the end plate is inserted into the flat tube, and the insertion distance is not less than 1 mm.

Preferably, the end plate of the extraction process hole is a single part and comprises a sinking plane, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the flat pipe, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, two hollow bulges are arranged on the sinking plane, the distance between the bulges and the root is more than 1mm, the outer edges of the two bulges are inserted into the channel of the flat pipe, and the inner pipelines of the two bulges are connected inside the end plate and are opened outside the end plate.

Preferably, the end plate for leading out the process holes is an assembly and comprises an assembly body and three process tubes, the assembly body comprises a sinking plane, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the flat pipe, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, two process holes are formed in the sinking plane, the two process tubes are respectively arranged between the two process holes and fixed in a welding or bonding mode, the two process tubes are higher than the sinking plane of the assembly body when being assembled and are higher than 2mm, the two process tubes are communicated with a third process tube outside the assembly body and are used for vacuumizing and injecting a heat pipe working medium when the flat plate type pulsating heat pipe is manufactured.

Preferably, the end plate without the process hole is a single part and comprises a sinking plane, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate can be adjusted according to the heat of a heat source and is not more than 50mm, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the flat pipe, and the sinking peripheral surface is used for being connected with the outer wall of the flat pipe.

Preferably, the end plates and the flat tubes can be connected in a brazing mode or fixed by adopting weather-proof glue.

Preferably, the straight flat tube flow channel section is circular, oval, square with round angle or other polygons.

Preferably, the internal filling working medium is one or more of pure water, ammonia, methanol, ethanol, ethers, freon such as R134a, R410a and R22, fluorinated liquid and acetone.

Furthermore, one part of the large surface of the flat type pulsating heat pipe is attached to the heating surface, the other part of the large surface of the flat type pulsating heat pipe is attached to the radiating surface, so that heat transfer is realized, and the transfer of larger heat can be realized in the large surface direction by the plurality of flat type pulsating heat pipes side by side.

Furthermore, the flat-plate pulsating heat pipes are arranged side by side in the direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat pipes, and fins are arranged between the planes of the flat pipes to form the flat-plate heat exchanger.

Furthermore, the flat-plate pulsating heat pipe is arranged side by side in the direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat pipes, a heat collecting plate is arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at one end of the parallel channel direction, and fins are arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at the other end of the parallel channel direction to form a radiator for radiating the heat collecting plate into air.

Preferably, the heat collecting plate is manufactured by an extrusion forming process, and the distance between the inner wall surface extruded by the opening and the contact surface of the flat type pulsating heat pipe is less than 1 mm.

A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe manufacturing method comprises the steps of firstly, taking a flat pipe, enabling the number of channels in the flat pipe to be not less than 4 and not more than 50, enabling the channels to be relatively parallel to each other, enabling the hydraulic diameter of the channels in the flat pipe to be 0.3-4 mm, grooving the dividing wall of the channels in the flat pipe inwards from a port, enabling the grooving depth to be not more than 50mm and not less than 3mm, respectively grooving the two ends at intervals, sealing one end of the flat pipe through crimping, welding or cementing after grooving, then carrying out vacuum operation on the other end of the flat pipe, filling a heat pipe working medium after vacuum, enabling the filling amount of the working medium to be the mass of a liquid working medium with the heat pipe content volume of 20% -80%, and sealing the other end of the flat pipe through crimping, welding or cementing after filling the heat pipe working medium; the pulsating heat pipe manufactured by the method does not form circulation, and is an oscillating type pulsating heat pipe.

The utility model has the advantages that:

1. the flat tube design is adopted, the end plates can be directly made into heat collection ends of the flat pulse heat tubes according to needs, the end plates with different thicknesses are adopted according to different calorific values, the end plates are fully contacted with the outer surfaces of the flat tubes, the contact thermal resistance is reduced, and the advantages of the pulse heat tubes are better exerted;

2. the adoption is through adopting many flat pulsating heat pipes to use side by side, under the prerequisite of satisfying big heat dissipation capacity, has realized the standardization to technology, guarantees under the prerequisite of manufacturing efficiency, has also improved the quality of product.

3. By improving the design of the hollow boss arranged in the end plate of the process port, when brazing or colloid curing is adopted, the solder and the colloid cannot flow into the process hole to form blockage, so that the manufacturing manufacturability of the product is improved;

4. by adding the heat collecting plate, the heat collecting capability of the flat type pulsating heat pipe is further improved, and the efficient heat radiation effect of the flat type pulsating heat pipe is fully exerted.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a flat pulsating heat pipe according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of a flat pulsating heat pipe according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of the assembly of the end plate with a process interface and the flat tube according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a single component of the end plate with a process connection according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the assembly of the present invention with the process connection end plate;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged upper schematic view of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a heat exchanger comprising a plurality of flat pulsating heat pipes according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a heat exchanger comprising a plurality of flat pulsating heat pipes according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the heat sink with a heat collecting plate and a plurality of flat pulsating heat pipes according to the present invention;

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be provided in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, so as to enable those skilled in the art to more easily understand the advantages and features of the present invention, and thereby define the scope of the invention more clearly and clearly.

Comprises flat pipes and two end plates, wherein the flat pipes are internally provided with channels which are parallel to each other, the number of the channels is 4-50, the number of the channels is an even number, the end plates are positioned at the two ends of the flat pipes and connect pipelines in the flat pipes in series to form a single flow passage,

referring to fig. 1 and 2, a flat-plate type pulsating heat pipe includes: a flat pipe 1, an upper end plate 2 and a lower end plate 3, wherein the flat pipe 1 is made by adopting an aluminum extrusion process, the upper end plate 2 and the lower end plate 3 are positioned at two ends of the flat pipe 1 to connect the internal pipelines of the flat pipe 1 in series to form a single runner, the flat pipe 1 contains 14 rectangular runners, the thickness of the dividing wall between the runners of the flat pipe 1 is 0.5mm, on one side of the upper end plate 2, the 2 nd, 4 th, 6 th, 8 th, 10 th and 12 th dividing walls of the flat pipe 1 are grooved from the end surface with the depth of 3mm, on one side of the lower end plate 3, the 1 st, 3 rd, 5 th, 7 th, 9 th, 11 th and 13 th dividing walls of the flat tube 1 are grooved with a depth of 3mm from the other end surface, the upper end plate 2 is provided with a fabrication hole, the process tube 4 is connected through the process hole, the process tube 4 is vacuumized, R134a working medium is filled after the vacuum is finished, the liquid volume of the working medium accounts for 50% of the inner volume of the pulsating heat tube, and the process tube 4 is sealed after the filling. The flat straight pipe 1, the upper end plate 2, the lower end plate 3 and the process pipe 4 are all made of aluminum materials and are connected together through aluminum solder vacuum brazing.

Fig. 3 and fig. 4 are the upper end plate 2 (single part type) and the flat pipe 1 condition of being connected, upper end plate 2 contains one and sinks plane 21, sink plane 21 and the flat pipe 1's of straight end face connection, sink plane 21 apart from end plate opening surface 4mm, there are two cavity archs on this sink surface, for internal hollow structure one 22 and internal hollow structure two 23, to the root distance is higher than 5mm, this distance is favorable to operations such as welding of mechanical structure, this two bellied outer fringe inserts in the passageway of flat pipe 1, this two bellied internal pipelines link together through connecting header 24 inside upper end plate 2, and open in the outside of upper end plate 2.

Fig. 5 shows another connection situation of the upper end plate 2 (assembly type) and the flat pipe 1, where the upper end plate 2 body and three process pipes are respectively a first process pipe 5, a second process pipe 6, and a third process pipe 7, the assembly body includes a sinking plane, the sinking plane is used to connect with the end face of the flat pipe, the sinking plane is 4mm away from the end plate opening surface, two process holes are opened on the sinking plane, the first process pipe 5 and the second process pipe 6 are respectively placed between the two process holes and fixed by brazing, the two process pipes are 5mm higher than the sinking plane of the assembly body when assembled, the first process pipe 5 and the second process pipe 6 are communicated with the third process pipe 7 outside the assembly body, where the third process pipe 7 is a tee, and specifically refer to fig. 6, which is used for vacuumizing and filling a working medium of the heat pipe when the flat pulsating heat pipe is manufactured.

Fig. 7 and 8 illustrate a heat exchanger formed by flat-plate pulsating heat pipes, in which 10 flat-plate pulsating heat pipes are arranged side by side in a direction perpendicular to planes of flat pipes, and fins 8 are disposed between the planes of the flat pipes to form the flat-plate heat exchanger, so that hot air can be introduced into one end of the flat-plate heat exchanger as required, and cold air can be introduced into the other end of the flat-plate heat exchanger to achieve heat exchange of the cold air and the hot air; different area ratios can be distributed according to heat exchange needs, the area distribution proportion of the heat exchanger can be increased for one end with harsh temperature change requirement, the air circulation resistance is reduced, and the air circulation temperature difference is reduced.

FIG. 9 illustrates a radiator comprising a heat collecting plate and a plurality of flat type pulsating heat pipes, wherein 10 flat type pulsating heat pipes are arranged side by side in a direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat pipes, the heat collecting plate 9 is arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at one end in a direction parallel to a passage, and the fins 8 are arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at the other end in the direction parallel to the passage to form the radiator for radiating the heat collecting plate into air; the heat collecting plate 9 is manufactured by an extrusion forming process, and the distance between the extruded inner wall surface of the cross section and the outer surface of the flat plate type pulsating heat pipe is 0.5 mm.

In addition, in the embodiment, the upper end plate 2 and the lower end plate 3 of the flat-plate type pulsating heat pipe can realize the function of the heat collecting plate by increasing the contact area with the flat tube 1, and the example described in fig. 7 is only used as an expansion of application, is convenient for enterprises to select more, and is not limited to the function;

the above only is the embodiment of the present invention, not limiting the patent scope of the present invention, all the equivalent structures or equivalent processes that are used in the specification and the attached drawings or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields are included in the patent protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe is characterized by comprising flat pipes and two end plates, wherein the flat pipes are internally provided with channels which are parallel to each other, the number of the channels is 4-50, the number of the channels is even, the end plates are positioned at two ends of the flat pipes and serially connect pipelines in the flat pipes into a single flow channel, one end plate is provided with a process hole, and a sealing structure is arranged at the process hole; the hydraulic diameter of the channel in the flat tube is 0.3-4 mm, the dividing wall of the channel in the flat tube is grooved inwards from the port, the grooving depth is not more than 20mm and not less than 1mm, the two ends of the channel are grooved at intervals respectively, an internal hollow structure is arranged at the joint of the end plate with the fabrication hole and the flat tube, the end plate is inserted into the flat tube, and the insertion distance is not less than 1 mm.

2. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the end plate with the fabrication holes is a single part and comprises a sinking plane, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the flat pipe, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, two hollow bulges are arranged on the sinking plane, the distance between the bulges and the root is more than 1mm, the outer edges of the two bulges are inserted into a channel of the flat pipe, and the inner pipelines of the two bulges are connected inside the end plate and open outside the end plate.

3. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the end plate with the process holes is an assembly and comprises an assembly body and three process pipes, wherein the assembly body comprises a sinking plane, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the straight flat pipe, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, two process holes are formed in the sinking plane, the two process pipes are respectively arranged between the two process holes and fixed in a welding or bonding mode, the two process pipes are higher than the sinking plane of the assembly body when assembled and are higher than the distance by more than 2mm, the two process pipes are communicated with a third process pipe outside the assembly body and are used for vacuumizing and injecting a heat pipe working medium when the flat plate type pulsating heat pipe is manufactured.

4. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the end plate without the fabrication hole is a single part and comprises a sinking plane, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate is not less than 3mm, the distance between the sinking plane and the opening surface of the end plate can be adjusted according to the heat of a heat source and is not more than 50mm, the sinking plane is used for being connected with the end face of the flat pipe, and the sinking peripheral surface is used for being connected with the outer wall of the flat pipe.

5. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the end plates and the flat tubes can be connected in a brazing mode or fixedly connected by adopting weather-resistant colloid.

6. A flat plate type pulsating heat pipe as claimed in any of claims 1 to 5, wherein: and attaching one part of the large surface of the flat type pulsating heat pipe to the heating surface, and attaching the other part of the large surface of the flat type pulsating heat pipe to the heat dissipation surface.

7. A flat plate heat exchanger characterized by: a plurality of flat type pulsating heat pipes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, which are arranged side by side in a direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat tubes, and fins are provided between the planes of the flat tubes.

8. A flat pulsation heat pipe radiator is characterized in that: a plurality of flat plate type pulsating heat pipes according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the flat plate type pulsating heat pipes are arranged side by side in a direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat pipes, a heat collecting plate is arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at one end in a direction parallel to the passage, and a fin is arranged between the planes of the flat pipes at the other end in the direction parallel to the passage.

9. The flat plate type pulsating heat pipe heat sink of claim 8, wherein: the heat collecting plate is manufactured by an extrusion forming process, and the distance between the inner wall surface extruded by the opening and the contact surface of the flat pulse heat pipe is less than 1 mm.