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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bernd Gotsmann, Rueschlikon, CH;
Fabian Menges, Rueschlikon, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A thermal oscillator () for creating an oscillating heat flux from a stationary spatial thermal gradient between a warm reservoir () and a cold reservoir () is provided. The thermal oscillator () includes a thermal conductor () which is connectable to the warm reservoir () or to the cold reservoir () and configured to conduct a heat flux from the warm reservoir () towards the cold reservoir (), and a thermal switch () coupled to the thermal conductor () for receiving the heat flux and having a certain difference between two states (S, S) of thermal conductance for providing thermal relaxation oscillations such that the oscillating heat flux is created from the received heat flux.