Integrated Computer Water Radiator With Radial-Flux Pump Layout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer water cooling radiators face challenges with large water pump sizes that reduce the volume of the water tank, leading to complex structures and high production costs, while existing solutions like concave-convex designs further complicate manufacturing and increase costs.
Innovation Solution
A water-pump-integrated water cooling radiator with a radial flux motor design, featuring a first and second water tank, tubes, heat dissipation fins, and a driving device with a radially arranged stator and rotor, eliminating the need for concave-convex structures and integrating the water tank and pump for a smaller, simpler, and cost-effective design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If a large water pump is used to ensure pumping capacity, then the pumping performance is improved, but the overall size of the water cooling radiator increases and the water tank volume is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the water pump directly into the water tank structure, making the pump body and tank body as an integrated component. This merging eliminates the need for separate pump housing and reduces overall space occupation, allowing the water tank volume to be maintained while accommodating the pump components within the same spatial envelope.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent places the impeller inside the water chamber, and the driving device (stator and rotor) within the pump body structure. This nested arrangement allows multiple components to occupy overlapping or contained spatial volumes, maximizing the use of available space and ensuring that the pump components do not reduce the functional water tank volume.
2Quantity of substance
If the water tank volume is increased to store more liquid, then the cooling capacity is improved, but the overall structure becomes more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The water tank and water pump are designed as an integrated unit with the tank body and pump body forming a unified structure. This merging simplifies the overall structure by eliminating the need for complex connections, seals, and mounting mechanisms between separate components, while still accommodating the required liquid storage volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The water tank body serves multiple functions: it stores cooling liquid, provides structural support, and integrates the pump housing. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components and simplifies the overall structure while maintaining adequate liquid storage capacity.
3Power
If concave-convex structures are designed to make the stator and rotor work cooperatively, then the driving function is improved, but the production cost of the mold increases and the overall size of the water pump increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a radial flux motor design where the stator and rotor are arranged radially with their magnetic fields axially tangent. This geometric parameter change from axial to radial arrangement simplifies the molding process by eliminating complex concave-convex structures, while still achieving effective magnetic coupling and driving function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical coupling structures with electromagnetic field interaction. The radial arrangement of stator and rotor with axially tangent magnetic fields enables direct electromagnetic coupling without requiring complex mechanical interfaces or concave-convex mating surfaces, thereby simplifying manufacturing.
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 design reduces the axial size and weight by 50% compared to radial flux motors, improves maneuverability, and lowers production costs, while ensuring safety and ease of maintenance by separating liquid chambers from circuit elements and allowing for vertical or radial pump base arrangements.
Implementation Method 1
an impeller, wherein the impeller is pivotally mounted in one of the liquid chambers... when the impeller rotates, the impeller is arranged to drive liquid to flow
Implementation Method 2
a plurality of tubes are arranged between the first water tank and the second water tank, and a heat dissipation fin is arranged between every two adjacent ones of the tubes
Implementation Method 3
realizes heat exchange between a heated liquid and the outside through radiating fins
Implementation Method 4
a driving device, wherein the driving device includes a stator arranged on an outer wall of the partition plate and a rotor cooperating with the stator, the rotor and the stator are radially arranged, and magnetic fields of the stator and the rotor are axially tangent to each other
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AI summary
A water-pump-integrated water cooling radiator for a computer includes a water tank, an impeller and a driving device. The water tank includes a first water tank and a second water tank. A plurality of tubes are arranged between the first water tank and the second water tank, and a heat dissipation fin is arranged between every two adjacent tubes. The first water tank is provided with at least two liquid chambers arranged at intervals, and two different liquid chambers are respectively connected to a water outlet and a water inlet. The impeller is pivotally mounted in one of the liquid chambers. A partition plate is provided on the first water tank at a position away from the tubes. A disk extending radially is arranged on a side wall of the impeller close to the partition plate.