Abstract
In recent years, heat pipes have been widely used in various hand held mobile electronic devices such as smart phones, tablet PCs, digital cameras. With the development of technology these devices have different user friendly features and applications; which require very high clock speeds of the processor. In general, a high clock speed generates a lot of heat, which needs to be spreaded or removed to eliminate the hot spot on the processor surface. However, it is a challenging task to achieve proper cooling of such electronic devices mentioned above because of their confined spaces and concentrated heat sources. Regarding this challenge, we introduced an ultra-thin heat pipe; this heat pipe consists of a special fiber wick structure named as “Center Fiber Wick” which can provide sufficient vapor space on the both sides of the wick structure. We also developed a cooling module that uses this kind of ultra-thin heat pipe to eliminate the hot spot issue. This cooling module consists of an ultra-thin heat pipe and a metal plate. By changing the width, the flattened thickness and the effective length of the ultra-thin heat pipe, several experiments have been conducted to characterize the thermal properties of the developed cooling module. In addition, other experiments were also conducted to determine the effects of changes in the number of heat pipes in a single module. Characterization and comparison of the module have also been conducted both experimentally and theoretically.
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Abbreviations
- A :
-
Cross-sectional area (m2)
- H :
-
Height (mm)
- K :
-
Permeability (m2)
- k :
-
Thermal conductivity (W/m K)
- L:
-
Length (m)
- Q :
-
Heat input (W)
- R :
-
Thermal resistance (K/W)
- r :
-
Radius (m)
- T :
-
Temperature (K)
- X :
-
Distance (m)
Distance (mm)
- amb:
-
Ambient
- avg:
-
Average
- cross:
-
Cross-sectional
- eff:
-
Effective
- HP:
-
Heat pipe
- h:
-
Heater
- IN:
-
Input
- p:
-
Pore
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Ahamed, M.S., Saito, Y., Mashiko, K. et al. Characterization of a high performance ultra-thin heat pipe cooling module for mobile hand held electronic devices. Heat Mass Transfer 53, 3241–3247 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-017-2022-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-017-2022-7