Heat sinking system and imaging apparatus including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10213175-B2
Application number	US-201515127309-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Mar 19, 2014
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

A heat sinking system and an imaging apparatus including the heat sinking system. The heat sinking system includes an air introducing portion, a capture portion and an air discharge portion. The air introducing portion is configured to introduce air from external, and to be in communication with heat sinking space, so that the introduced air flows into the heat sinking space and exchanges heat with a heat sinking object which is accommodated in the heat sinking space. The capture portion is configured to be in communication with the heat sinking space and the air discharge portion, and to capture air which flows from the heat sinking space to the capture portion and enable the captured air to flow into the air discharge portion. The air discharge portion is configured to discharge the air which flows in out of the capture portion to the external.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat sinking system comprising;
an air introducing portion, a capture portion and an air discharge portion, wherein,
the air introducing portion is configured to introduce air from external, and to be in communication with heat sinking space, so that the introduced air flows into the heat sinking space and exchanges heat with a heat sinking object which is accommodated in the heat sinking space;
the capture portion is configured to be in communication with the heat sinking space and the air discharge portion, and to capture air which flows from the heat sinking space to the capture portion and enable the captured air to flow into the air discharge portion;
the air discharge portion is configured to discharge the air which flows in out of the capture portion to the external; and
a first blocking member disposed between the air introducing portion, and the heat sinking space and the capture portion and configured to block the air introduced from the air introducing portion from flowing into the capture portion.

2. The heat sinking system according to claim 1 , wherein the air introducing portion includes an air inlet disposed at the bottom of the heat sinking system.

3. The heat sinking system according to claim 1 , wherein the capture portion comprises a plurality of capture guide members, the plurality of capture guide members being configured to allow air in the capture portion to flow in a first direction from the heat sinking space to the air discharge portion and to prevent the air in the capture portion from flowing in a second direction from the air discharge portion to the heat sinking space and opposite to the first direction.

4. The heat sinking system according to claim 3 , wherein said plurality of capture guide members is configured to have a leaf-like shape, so that a LAVAL pipe allowing air to flow in the first direction is formed between two adjacent capture guide members.

5. The heat sinking system according to claim 4 , wherein said plurality of capture guide members is disposed around the heat sinking space.

6. The heat sinking system according to claim 1 , wherein the heat sinking system further comprises:
a second blocking member disposed between the air discharge portion, and the heat sinking space and the capture portion and configured to block air in the heat sinking space from flowing into the air discharge portion.

7. The heat sinking system according to claim 6 , wherein the second blocking member comprises an opening area corresponding to the capture portion, a blocking area corresponding to the heat sinking space, and a support which is disposed within the blocking area and configured to support the heat sinking object in the heat sinking space.

8. The heat sinking system according to claim 7 , wherein the air discharge portion comprises an air outlet disposed at the top of the heat sinking system.

9. The heat sinking system according to claim 1 , the heat sinking system further comprising at least one of a first fan and a second fan, wherein the first fan is disposed at the air introducing portion for blowing air from the external to the air introducing portion, and the second fan is disposed at the air discharge portion for blowing air in the air discharge portion to the external.

10. An imaging apparatus, comprising:
a gantry configured to include the heat sinking system according to claim 1 ; and
an imaging device disposed and accommodated in heat sinking space of the heat sinking system as a heat sinking object, to exchange heat with air which flows in out of the air introducing portion.

11. The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the imaging device is configured to scan an aim object to acquire an image of the aim object, while being in rotation.

12. The imaging apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the imaging device comprises:
an X-ray generator configured to generate X-rays and emit the generated X-rays to the aim object; and
an X-ray detector configured to receive X-rays passing through the aim object and convert the received X-rays into electrical signals.

Assignees

• Gen Electric
• Ge Medical Sys Global Tech Co Llc

Inventors

• Huang Duzi
• Qu Weimin

Classifications

• A61B6/4488 Primary

  Means for cooling (A61B6/045 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A61B6/035

  Mechanical aspects of CT · CPC title

• A61B6/032

  Transmission computed tomography [CT] · CPC title