Triad National Security, LLC

Martin J Ward

Robert Stowers Reid

Morgan T Biel

Todd Andrew Jankowski

Cody Mathew Williams

Robert A Zimmerman

Stephen J Obrey

Justin Simpson

Lydia Wermer

Lindsey M Gaspar

Nicholas M Diskerud

Kyle B Hammond

A pump assisted heat pipe may combine the low mass flow rate required of latent heat pipe transfer loops with a hermetically sealed pump to overcome the typical heat pipe capillary limit. This may result in a device with substantially higher heat transfer capacity over conventional pumped single-phase loops, heat pipes, loop heat pipes, and capillary pumped loops with very modest power requirements to operate. Further, one or more embodiments overcome the gravitation limitations in the conventional heat pipe configuration, e.g., when the heat addition zone is above the heat rejection zone, the capillary forces are required to transfer the liquid from the heat rejection zone to the heat addition zone against gravity.

Counter gravity heat pipe techniques

A fill tool system that fills, seals, and inspects a heat pipe array, which includes one or more heat pipes with heat pipe working fluid.

Method to fill heat pipe arrays

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Martin J Ward