A quad-rotor or other unmanned aerial drone having a planar vapor chamber mounted to a processor of the drone to cool the processor. The processor may be enclosed in a protective central housing. The vapor chamber is mounted, in some examples, with a perimeter of the vapor chamber extending from the processor through the housing into an airflow region near the rotors of the drone so that airflow, which may include propeller wash, serves to cool the perimeter of the vapor chamber. The planar vapor chamber cools the enclosed processor using both phase-change cooling/heat spreading (i.e. heat is dissipated from the processor via evaporation and subsequent condensation) and convection (i.e. airflow passing over the perimeter of the vapor chamber carries heat away).


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    Title :

    Multi-rotor aerial drone with vapor chamber


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    Publication date :

    2019-09-03


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    H05K PRINTED CIRCUITS , Gedruckte Schaltungen / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / F28D Wärmetauscher, soweit in keiner anderen Unterklasse vorgesehen, in denen die Wärmetauschmittel nicht in direkte Berührung miteinander kommen , HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT



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