Heat Pipe Reliability in High-Power Applications

摘要

A well-designed, carefully built and appropriately applied heat pipe can achieve an operating life in excess of 15 years. With short-term, high- temperature screening and numerical analysis, heat pipe life can be predicted. Over the past decade, the use of heat pipes in electronic cooling applications has increased dramatically, primarily in notebook computers. In fact, virtually every notebook computer manufactured today uses at least one heat pipe assembly. Typically used to carry less than 25 W of power, these parts are low in cost and highly reliable.