Gantry Cooling System with Positive Guide Flow Path
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cooling systems for imaging apparatuses with gantries face inefficiencies due to non-uniform flow conditions and complex geometries, leading to over-dimensioning and reduced installation space utilization.
Innovation Solution
A cooling system featuring a fan and a solid body with a positive guide that transforms the inlet geometry into the outlet geometry, along with a flow channel for heat exchange, optimizing fluid flow and reducing material usage and noise levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional heat exchanger structures with cuboidal form are used, then manufacturing is simplified, but adaptation to complex installation spaces is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The heat exchanger structure employs curved surfaces and rounded geometries instead of conventional cuboidal forms, enabling adaptation to complex installation spaces with curved boundaries while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through continuous surface designs
2Device complexity
If conventional heat exchanger structures are used, then construction is simplified, but uniform flow distribution is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The heat exchanger structure features locally optimized geometries with varying cross-sectional areas and flow channel dimensions designed to compensate for non-uniform flow distribution, ensuring uniform heat exchange performance across different regions despite simplified overall construction
3Reliability
If cooling systems are over-dimensioned to ensure sufficient cooling, then cooling reliability is improved, but installation space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The heat exchanger structure utilizes optimized geometric parameters including surface area-to-volume ratio, flow channel dimensions, and material thermal conductivity to achieve high cooling efficiency in a compact form, eliminating the need for over-dimensioning while maintaining reliable cooling performance
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
The solution enables more efficient cooling, reduced material and space requirements, and lower noise levels by ensuring uniform fluid flow and efficient heat exchange, improving integration into complex gantry geometries.
Implementation Method 1
has a positive guide, defined by a continuous outer boundary, for a first fluid from the inlet opening to the outlet opening, which continuously transforms the geometry of the inlet opening into the geometry of the outlet opening and defines a flow path for the first fluid
Implementation Method 2
has a flow channel for a second fluid, which is arranged in heat exchange communication with the flow path
Data Source
AI summary
An embodiment of the invention relates to a cooling system for an imaging apparatus having a gantry for cooling components arranged in the gantry, including a fan and a solid body. The solid body has an inlet opening, and an outlet opening, wherein the inlet opening is larger than the outlet opening. The solid body also has a positive guide, defined by a continuous outer boundary, for a first fluid from the inlet opening to the outlet opening, which continuously transforms the geometry of the inlet opening into the geometry of the outlet opening and defines a flow path for the first fluid, and has a flow channel for a second fluid, which is arranged in heat exchange communication with the flow path, and has an inlet and an outlet for the second fluid.