Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-controlled heat pipe, consisting of a closed recipient containing a heat carrying medium, with a heat source where the heat carrying medium vaporizes, and with a heat drain formed by a cooling zone, an inert gas being intended to be fed under controllable pressure into the recipient at the upper end of the cooling zone. According to the invention, a displacement body (11) extends downwards from the upper end of the cooling zone, this body carrying at least in its upper part deflection sheets (12), which divide the interspace between the displacement body and the cooled wall of the cooling area into a plurality of interconnected volumes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal heat pump consisting of a heat pipe in which the vapor passage between the heat transfer zone to the heat supply and the heat transfer zone to the heat removal section has a cross section which varies across its length. The variable cross-sectional vapor passage first increases and then decreases the rate of vapor flow, and a further heat transfer zone with either heat supply or removal is located in the area of increased vapor velocity. The cross-sectional variation of the vapor passage in the heat pipe between the two outermost heat transfer zones is advantageously brought about by a displacement body arranged internally of the heat pipe with a particular surface contour.