US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 29 for "Heat pipe, heat exchange device, and method for manufacturing heat pipe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,152, issued on April 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Heat pipe, heat exchange device, and method for manufacturing heat pipe" was invented by Tsuneo Endo (Saitama, Japan) and Yuta Kurosawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe including: a heat receiving chamber; a heat dissipation chamber; a tubular connecting pipe; and wicks. Each of the heat receiving chamber and the heat dissipation chamber has, when viewed from a first direction, a greater width in a second direction than a width of the connecting pipe in the second direction. The wicks are formed side by side at least in the second directi...