Abstract: A thin heat pipe including a thin heat pipe container, wick structure, working fluid, and vapor flow passage section is provided. The thin heat pipe container includes a lower inner wall and upper inner wall. The wick structure is disposed on the lower inner wall and includes a first wick structure portion connected to a second wick structure portion. The vapor flow passage section is configured for vapor to flow therethrough. A thickness of the second wick structure portion is lesser than a thickness of the first wick structure portion and the second wick structure portion does not contact, contact points between the upper inner wall and lower inner wall. The wick structure defines the vapor flow passage section. The first wick structure contacts the upper inner wall and second wick structure. Working fluid is pulled from vapor condenser sections to high temperature sections via the wick structure.

Abstract: An alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate sintered body is obtained by molding a starting mixture of a zeolite having an alkaline earth metal form and an SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 molar ratio not higher than 3.0 and a boron compound such as boron oxide, and firing the molded body at a temperature lower than 1,000.degree. C. An amorphous calcination product formed by calcining the zeolite may also be used in the starting mixture with the boron compound. This process allows the range of firing temperatures suitable for formation of a sintered body to be varied over a range of from about 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. or more while also allowing lower firing temperatures than in the absence of the boron compound to be used while still obtaining the desired densified sintered body.