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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Shailesh N. Joshi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Srivathsan Sudhakar, West Lafayette, IN (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A cooling system that includes an expandable vapor chamber having a condenser side opposite an evaporator side, a condenser side wick coupled to a condenser side wall, an evaporator side wick coupled to an evaporator side wall, and a vapor core positioned between the evaporator side wick and the condenser side wick. The cooling system also includes a vapor pressure sensor communicatively coupled to a controller and a bellow actuator disposed in the vapor core and communicatively coupled to the controller. The bellow actuator is expandable based on a vapor pressure measurement of the vapor pressure sensor.