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Heat sink with flattened heat pipes

A heat sink includes a plurality of heat pipes to be thermally connected to a heating element, and a heat dissipation section thermally connected to the plurality of heat pipes, in which in the plurality of heat pipes, at least evaporation sections to be thermally connected to the heating element have flattened portions whose cross sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to a heat transfer direction of the plurality of heat pipes is flattened, and surfaces in the flattened portions in a thickness direction are arranged facing the heating element.

Patent

Brief

Patent brief

Problem

How can heat, airflow, and thermal load be managed more effectively in compact systems?

Novelty

Phase-change cooling is reinforced by front-page matches on heat pipe.

Uses

Thermal management, High-density electronics, Cooling loops

Assignee

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Published

Mar 10, 2026

Inventors

Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Yasuhiro Uchimura, Shuta Hikichi, Tatsuro Miura, Hiroshi Sakai

Domain

Thermal systems

Plain-English summary

Problem

How can heat, airflow, and thermal load be managed more effectively in compact systems?

Solution

heat sink includes a plurality of heat pipes to be thermally connected to a heating element, and a heat dissipation section thermally connected to the plurality of heat pipes, in which in the plurality of heat pipes, at least evaporation sections to be thermally connected to the heating element have flattened portions whose cross sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to a heat transfer direction of the plurality of heat pipes is flattened, and surfaces in the flattened portions in a thickness direction are arranged facing the heating element.

Key novelty

Phase-change cooling is reinforced by front-page matches on heat pipe.

Applications

Thermal managementHigh-density electronicsCooling loops

Relevant search intents

heat pipe

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