Medical Camera Head Heat Transfer Member Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical camera heads face challenges in acquiring high-quality images while maintaining a small size and weight, as increased image data processing generates heat, leading to increased casing size and temperature issues.
Innovation Solution
A medical camera head design featuring a first casing with a metal portion, a heat-generating section, and a heat transfer member between the heat-generating section and the metal portion, along with a signal transmission section connected to the camera head, utilizing a resin with an electrically conductive filler for efficient heat dissipation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If heat dissipation is improved by making the outer surface of the casing larger, then heat dissipation efficiency is improved, but the medical camera head becomes larger and heavier
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the heat dissipation function from the casing structure by introducing a dedicated heat transfer member (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) that separates the heat dissipation pathway from the casing outer surface. This allows efficient heat transfer without requiring an enlarged casing, thus maintaining small size and light weight while improving heat dissipation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a heat transfer member as an intermediary component between the heat-generating section and the casing. This mediator (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) efficiently conducts heat away from the imaging element without requiring the casing itself to be enlarged, thereby achieving good heat dissipation while maintaining compact dimensions and light weight.
2Temperature
If heat dissipation is improved by making the outer surface of the casing larger, then heat dissipation efficiency is improved, but the medical camera head becomes larger
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the heat dissipation function from the casing structure by introducing a dedicated heat transfer member (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) that separates the heat dissipation pathway from the casing outer surface. This allows efficient heat transfer without requiring an enlarged casing, thus maintaining small size and light weight while improving heat dissipation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a heat transfer member as an intermediary component between the heat-generating section and the casing. This mediator (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) efficiently conducts heat away from the imaging element without requiring the casing itself to be enlarged, thereby achieving good heat dissipation while maintaining compact dimensions and light weight.
3Ease of operation
If the casing is made smaller for better operability, then ease of operation is improved, but heat dissipation efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a heat transfer member as an intermediary component between the heat-generating section and the casing. This mediator (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) efficiently conducts heat away from the imaging element without requiring the casing itself to be enlarged, thereby achieving good heat dissipation while maintaining compact dimensions and light weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the heat dissipation function from the casing structure by introducing a dedicated heat transfer member (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) that separates the heat dissipation pathway from the casing outer surface. This allows efficient heat transfer without requiring an enlarged casing, thus maintaining small size and light weight while improving heat dissipation efficiency.
4Measurement precision
If high-definition imaging is performed to acquire high-quality images, then image quality is improved, but heat generation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a heat transfer member as an intermediary component between the heat-generating section and the casing. This mediator (heat pipe or thermally conductive plate) efficiently conducts heat away from the imaging element without requiring the casing itself to be enlarged, thereby achieving good heat dissipation while maintaining compact dimensions and light weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent converts the harmful heat generated by high-definition imaging processing into a manageable thermal flow by using the heat transfer member to conduct the heat away from the imaging element. The heat pipe or thermally conductive plate transforms the problematic heat accumulation into an efficient heat transfer process, allowing high-quality imaging to continue without temperature-related performance degradation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design enables high-quality image acquisition with improved heat dissipation efficiency, reducing the camera head's size and weight, and preventing temperature increases in the imaging element, even during high-definition imaging.
Implementation Method 1
a heat transfer member interposed between the heat-generating section and the other end of the connection section
Implementation Method 2
heat generated inside the medical camera head is transferred to a casing to be dissipated
Implementation Method 3
the second casing being in contact with the metal portion of the first casing and made of a resin containing an electrically conductive filler
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a medical camera head including: a first casing configured to accommodate an imaging element; a heat-generating section accommodated in the first casing; a connection section provided in the first casing, an external signal transmission section being connected to one end of the connection section; and a heat transfer member interposed between the heat-generating section and the other end of the connection section.