Heat pipe cooling device

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Description

FIG. 1 is a front view of the heat pipe cooling device showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a back view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a cross sectional view thereof, taken along line XIV-XIV in FIG. 4.

This article is a heat pipe cooling device, which is configured to cool a semiconductor device or the like to be used for a vehicle control apparatus and the like. This article comprises a heat block configured to contact the semiconductor device or the like, a plurality of heat pipes, and a plurality of heat dissipation fins connected by the heat pipes. This article is configured such that heat is transferred from the semiconductor device or the like to the heat block, then transferred from the heat block to the heat dissipation fins through the heat pipes, and finally dissipated from the heat dissipation fins.

Claims

The ornamental design for a heat pipe cooling device, substantially as shown and described.

Referenced Cited
U.S. Patent Documents
5412535 May 2, 1995 Chao et al.
D511327 November 8, 2005 Ma et al.
D567772 April 29, 2008 Lin et al.
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Patent History
Patent number: D713020
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 9, 2011
Date of Patent: Sep 9, 2014
Assignee: Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd. (Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki)
Inventors: Hironori Kitajima (Tsuchiura), Hitoshi Sakayori (Tsukuba), Yuuzou Shiraishi (Tsuchiura)
Primary Examiner: T. Chase Nelson
Assistant Examiner: Ania Aman
Application Number: 29/371,467
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Element (D23/322)