A heat conduction device with an inner loop includes a vapor chamber having at least one hole edge and a heat pipe having an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The outer pipe has a closed end and an open end communicating with the hole edge. Two ends of the inner pipe are open. The inner pipe has one end communicating with the vapor chamber through the hole edge and the other end extended along the axial direction of the outer pipe to form at least one port for communicating the closed end of the outer pipe with the inner pipe. The inner pipe is located inside the outer pipe to form a gap annularly. The port communicates with the gap, so that the inner loop is formed between the vapor chamber and the heat pipe.

A tank assembly has heat-generating equipment contained therein. The tank assembly includes a tank having an opening, and a thermal siphon fixed to the tank and sealing the opening of the tank. The thermal siphon has a main body portion and a loop portion. The thermal siphon contains a liquid and a gas. A center of the loop portion is exposed to the environment.

A liquid flow path portion of a vapor chamber according to this invention includes a first main flow groove, a second main flow groove and a third main flow groove. A first convex array including a plurality of first convex portions arranged via a first communicating groove is provided between the first main flow groove and the second main flow groove. A second convex array including a plurality of second convex portions arranged via a second communicating groove is provided between the second main flow groove and the third main flow groove. The main flow groove includes a first intersection at which at least a part of the first communicating groove faces each second convex portion and a second intersection at which at least a part of the second communicating groove faces each first convex portion.

A transducer system includes a housing, an electromechanical transducer within the housing, a wicking material adjacent to a portion of the electromechanical transducer, and a coolant solution within the housing. The coolant solution transitions from a liquid phase to a gaseous phase in response to a temperature of the electromechanical transducer exceeding a threshold temperature. In some example cases, the coolant solution has a boiling point of less than about 60° C., which effectively defines the threshold temperature. The coolant solution may be chosen such that it remains a liquid during a first phase (cooling via conduction), and then evaporates during a second phase (cooling via conduction and convection) as the electromechanical transducer heats up.

A thermosiphon device includes an evaporator section, a condenser section and a liquid path configured to deliver liquid that exits the evaporator section directly back to the evaporator inlet. The condenser section has a significantly reduced mass flow rate and lower pressure drop as compared to the evaporator section, which has an increase liquid fraction of working fluid.

A cooling system includes an evaporator, connected through fluid lines to a first condenser, a second condenser, a compressor, and a thermal expansion valve. One or more valves are arranged in the fluid lines. The one or more valves operated to, in a first mode, circulate fluid between the evaporator the first condenser; in a second mode, circulate the fluid between a) the evaporator and the first condenser, and b) the evaporator, the second condenser, and the thermal expansion valve, and; in a third mode, circulate the fluid between a) the evaporator and the first condenser, and c) the evaporator, the compressor, the second condenser, and the thermal expansion valve.

A building envelope, in particular a wall, a floor, or a roof of a building with at least two shells spaced some distance apart from one another, which encloses an intermediate space, said space being essentially empty with the exception of weight-bearing and/or construction-engineering elements or being filled at least in sections with porous, open-celled material and sealed from the interior and exterior of the building, wherein controllable sealing means are provided for sealing the intermediate space from the interior and exterior and optionally separated building envelope sections from one other.

A building envelope, in particular a wall, a floor, or a roof of a building with at least two shells spaced some distance apart from one another, which encloses an intermediate space, said space being essentially empty with the exception of weight-bearing and/or construction-engineering elements or being filled at least in sections with porous, open-celled material and sealed from the interior and exterior of the building, wherein controllable sealing means are provided for sealing the intermediate space from the interior and exterior and optionally separated building envelope sections from one other.

A building envelope, in particular a wall, a floor, or a roof of a building with at least two shells spaced some distance apart from one another, which encloses an intermediate space, said space being essentially empty with the exception of weight-bearing and/or construction-engineering elements or being filled at least in sections with porous, open-celled material and sealed from the interior and exterior of the building, wherein controllable sealing means are provided for sealing the intermediate space from the interior and exterior and optionally separated building envelope sections from one other.

A building envelope, in particular a wall, a floor, or a roof of a building with at least two shells spaced some distance apart from one another, which encloses an intermediate space, said space being essentially empty with the exception of weight-bearing and/or construction-engineering elements or being filled at least in sections with porous, open-celled material and sealed from the interior and exterior of the building, wherein controllable sealing means are provided for sealing the intermediate space from the interior and exterior and optionally separated building envelope sections from one other.