HEAT PIPE INTEGRATED WITHIN A FASTENER

Abstract: a fastener with a heat pipe integrated therein is disclosed. the fastener with the heat pipe integrated therein comprises a head portion, a body portion extending from the head portion, and a tip portion extending from the body portion. the heat pipe is integrated within the fastener and adapted to withdraw heat away from the body portion of the fastener. the heat pipe contains working fluid that absorbs heat from at least one of the tip portion and the body portion of the fastener. the heat pipe extends through a hole defined within the head portion and through the hole defined within the body portion of the fastener such that the working fluid that flows through the heat pipe towards the head portion of the fastener channels heat away from the body portion of the fastener and discharges heat to the head portion of the fastener is also disclosed.

Inventor(s): Balachandran Rajagopal

CPC Classification: F28D15/04 (HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT (fluid heaters having heat generating means and heat transferring means ; furnaces ; details of heat-exchange apparatus of general))

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