摘要:
A cooling device boiling and condensing refrigerant includes a refrigerant tank having a boiling space in which a part of liquid refrigerant is boiled and vaporized to gas refrigerant by absorbing heat from a heat-generating member, first and second radiators disposed at upper and lower parts of the refrigerant tank, defined by a liquid refrigerant surface within the refrigerant tank, and a connection pipe connecting the first and second radiators. The first and second radiators have the same shape, and are disposed to cool and condense gas refrigerant from the boiling space. In the cooling device, even when the cooling device is used in a normal state or a vertically reversed state, sufficient radiating performance of the first and second radiators can be obtained.
摘要:
A cooling device boiling and condensing refrigerant includes a refrigerant tank having a boiling space in which a part of liquid refrigerant is boiled and vaporized to gas refrigerant by absorbing heat from a heat-generating member, and a radiator having a header through which gas refrigerant from the boiling space flows into plural tubes connected to the header. One end of the header is inserted into the refrigerant tank, and the inserted end portion of the header has a communication port communicating with the boiling space through a gas refrigerant outlet. The communication port has a lower end at the same position as a lower end of the gas refrigerant outlet. Further, the tubes are inserted into the header to have opened ends within the header, and each lower end of the opened ends of the tubes is set at a position higher than the lower end of the communication port and the lower end of the gas refrigerant outlet. Thus, the cooling device prevents liquid refrigerant from flowing into the tubes from the opened ends in the header.
摘要:
A cooling apparatus includes a refrigerant tank containing boiling and condensing refrigerant and a radiator for cooling the refrigerant. The radiator is connected to the refrigerant tank on a front surface thereof, and hot objects to be cooled are attached to a heat-receiving surface formed on a rear surface of the refrigerant tank. The refrigerant is circulated in the apparatus so that the refrigerant is vaporized in the refrigerant tank and condensed in the radiator. The radiator is connected to the refrigerant tank by inserting a pair of header tanks thereof into the refrigerant tank. The insertion length is controlled to obtain good heat conductivity between the radiator and the refrigerant tank and to avoid deformation of a radiator fin contacting the refrigerant tank. Holes for mounting a substrate carrying the hot objects may be made on enlarged portions of a cover plate closing the refrigerant tank. The heat-receiving surface may be elevated from the rear surface of the refrigerant tank to avoid interference between other components mounted on the substrate and the rear surface of the refrigerant tank.
摘要:
A cooling device for cooling a heat-generating member includes a refrigerant tank for boiling liquid refrigerant by heat from the heat-generating member and a radiator for cooling and condensing gas refrigerant from the refrigerant tank. The refrigerant tank has therein a plurality of refrigerant passages defined by ribs which are integrally formed with any one of opposite wall parts of the refrigerant tank. The ribs continuously extend in an up-down direction to be slightly longer than an up-down dimension of a boiling surface of the refrigerant tank. In the cooling device, because each passage width of the refrigerant passages is set to be equal to or smaller than double Laplace length, an outer diameter of bubbles in the refrigerant passages becomes larger, and liquid refrigerant can be moved upwardly by bubbles. Accordingly, it can restrict liquid refrigerant surface from being lowered even when gas-generating amount is increased.
摘要:
In a cooling apparatus, a radiating part mounted on a refrigerant tank is made by stacking refrigerant tubes and fins alternately. A first header and a second header are provided at the ends of the refrigerant tubes. When the cooling apparatus is used in a vertical attitude, the first header is positioned above the liquid surface of refrigerant inside the refrigerant tank, and the second header is positioned below the liquid surface. Consequently, vapor refrigerant boiled by heat from a heat-emitting body attached to the refrigerant tank can flow through the first header into the refrigerant tubes, and liquid refrigerant liquefied in the refrigerant tubes can flow through the second header back to the refrigerant tank.
摘要:
A cooling apparatus for cooling a heating body such as a CPU by boiling and condensing refrigerant has a tank having a heating body mounting portion on which the CPU is mounted; a porous metallic sintered body arranged in the tank; and refrigerant contained in the tank. The tank has a pair of faced walls including a heat-receiving wall and a radiation wall. The porous metallic sintered body is arranged along the heat-receiving wall, and transports the refrigerant collected at the bottom of the tank to an adjacent portion of the heating body mounting portion by using a capillary action. Since the refrigerant is boiled at such a wide adjacent portion, a superheat degree of the heating body mounting portion can decrease. Furthermore, since the refrigerant collected at the bottom of the tank is transported to the adjacent portion by the capillary action, an area of the radiation wall soaked in the refrigerant becomes small. As a result, a condensation area for condensing the vapor refrigerant becomes large, and then the supercool degree of the radiation wall can decrease. In this way, a cooling capacity of the cooling apparatus can increase.
摘要:
In the hydrogen supply device for producing and supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell, a heat exchange section has a rotary thermal storage through which low and high temperature passages pass. Reforming material is supplied to the low temperature fluid passage on an upstream side of the heat exchange section. A reforming section for producing reformed gas containing hydrogen is located at a downstream side of the low temperature fluid passage. A combustion gas supply section for generating and supplying a combustion gas is located in the high temperature fluid passage. The rotary thermal storage rotates to move alternately between the low and high temperature fluid passages so that heat of the combustion gas flowing in the high temperature fluid conduit is transferred to reforming material flowing in the low temperature fluid conduit. The low temperature fluid passage communicates with the high temperature fluid passage via the fuel cell.
摘要:
In the hydrogen supply device for producing and supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell, a reforming section has a rotary thermal storage through which low and high temperature passages pass. Reforming material is supplied to the low temperature fluid passage on an upstream side of the first rotary thermal storage. A combustion gas supply section for generating and supplying a combustion gas is located in the high temperature fluid passage on a downstream side of the first rotary thermal storage. With the hydrogen supply device mentioned above, the first rotary thermal storage rotates to move alternately between the low and high temperature fluid passages so that, in the reforming section, the reforming material flowing in the low temperature fluid passage is catalytically reformed to a reformed gas containing hydrogen upon receiving combustion heat of the combustion gas flowing in the high temperature fluid conduit.
摘要:
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell (FC stack), an inflow passage valve provided in a hydrogen inflow passage through which hydrogen is supplied to the FC stack, and a discharge passage valve provided in a hydrogen discharge passage through which hydrogen containing gas is discharged from the FC stack as exhaust gas. In the fuel cell, hydrogen is supplied to the FC stack intermittently in accordance with an amount of hydrogen consumed in the FC stack, by controlling opening and closing of the inflow passage valve and the hydrogen discharge valve.
摘要:
According to the present invention, a cooling apparatus using boiling and condensing refrigerant, includes a fluid separating plate for separating a high-temperature fluid from a low-temperature fluid, a refrigerant tank disposed on the side of the high-temperature fluid from the fluid separating plate, a refrigerant sealed into the refrigerant tank, a pair of communication pipes, one end of which is communicated with the refrigerant tank hermetically, a condensing portion communicated with the other end of the communication pipes and disposed on the side of the low-temperature fluid from the fluid separating plate, and a heat insulating material as a high-temperature portion-side heat insulating material coated on the outer periphery of the high-temperature-side communication pipe. In this way, it is possible to suppress a heat conduction from a high-temperature portion (high-temperature air) to the high-temperature-side communication pipe. As a result, it is possible to prevent the descending refrigerant which has been condensed and liquefied in the radiator from receiving heat from the high-temperature portion through the high-temperature-side communication pipe to receive an ascending force in the high-temperature-side communication pipe.