US 11,683,919 B2
Conformal heat pipe assemblies
Karthik Bodla, Watervliet, NY (US); Nathaniel Benedict Hawes, Milton, NY (US); Brian Magann Rush, Niskayuna, NY (US); Weijun Yin, Niskayuna, NY (US); and Andrew Thomas Cross, Waterford, NY (US)
Assigned to General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/399,371.
Application 17/399,371 is a division of application No. 16/203,161, filed on Nov. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,122,715.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/670,460, filed on May 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0378154 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H02K 9/22 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); F28D 15/02 (2006.01); F28D 15/04 (2006.01); H01F 27/18 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20936 (2013.01) [F28D 15/0233 (2013.01); F28D 15/0275 (2013.01); F28D 15/046 (2013.01); H01F 27/18 (2013.01); H02K 9/225 (2021.01); H05K 7/20945 (2013.01); F28D 2015/0216 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heat pipe assembly comprising:
plural connected walls having porous wick linings along the walls,
wherein the walls form and seal an interior chamber,
wherein the porous wick linings of the walls are configured to hold a liquid phase of a working fluid in the interior chamber;
wherein the walls are shaped and sized to be located outside of and directly contact a stator of a motor; and
wherein the walls form elongated fins that radially project away from an axis of rotation of the motor, and wherein the interior chamber extends into the fins.