METAL ENCASED GRAPHITE LAYER HEAT PIPE

摘要

A metal encased multilayer stack of graphite sheets used as a passive thermal conductor. In the stack, each sheet has a plane high thermal conductivity along a first axis and a plane of lower thermal conductivity along a second axis. The stack is created to have a three-dimensional shape including a length and a width, and the first axis is aligned parallel to said length, the multilayer stack having a height less than the width. A first metal structure surrounds the multilayer stack of graphite sheets, with the metal structure encasing the multilayer stack along the length, width and height of the multilayer stack.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a multilayer stack of graphite sheets, each sheet having a plane high thermal conductivity along a first axis and a plane of lower thermal conductivity along a second axis, the stack having a three-dimensional shape including a length and a width, and the first axis is aligned parallel to said length, the multilayer stack having a height less than the width; a first metal structure surrounding the multilayer stack of graphite sheets, the metal structure encasing the multilayer stack along the length, width and height of the multilayer stack.