Water-cooling device with waterproof stator and rotor pumping unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9689627-B2
Application number	US-201313759055-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2013
Priority date	Feb 5, 2013
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

A water-cooling module includes a main body. The main body has a receiving space and a water room partitioning board. The receiving space is partitioned by the water room partitioning board into a pump chamber and a heat exchange chamber. The pump chamber and the heat exchange chamber communicate with each other through at least one communication section. A pump unit is disposed in the pump chamber. A heat transfer unit is disposed in the heat exchange chamber. A cooling fluid is filled up in the main body to circulate within the pump chamber and the heat exchange chamber. The pump unit is entirely immersed in the cooling fluid so that the operation efficiency of the pump unit is enhanced and the main body is thinned. Moreover, the problem of overheating of the pump unit in operation is solved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water-cooling module comprising a main body, the main body having a receiving space and a water room partitioning hoard, the receiving space being partitioned by the water room partitioning board into a pump chamber and a heat exchange chamber, the pump chamber and the heat exchange chamber communicating with each other through at least one communication section, a submersible pump unit being disposed in the pump chamber, a heat transfer unit being disposed in the heat exchange chamber, a cooling fluid being filled up in the main body to circulate within the pump chamber and the heat exchange chamber such that the bottom and sides of the pump chamber or the heat exchange chamber are within the cooling fluid;
wherein the submersible pump unit is entirely immersed in the cooling fluid, and the submersible pump unit has a rotor assembly and a stator assembly being received together in the pump chamber so that the stator assembly is cooled by the cooling fluid, the stator assembly being enclosed in a waterproof layer, the stator assembly and waterproof layer being immersed in the cooling fluid with the rotor assembly;
wherein the stator assembly has multiple silicon steel sheets, multiple windings and a circuit board, the silicon steel sheets and the windings and the circuit board being enclosed in the waterproof layer and cooled by the cooling fluid.

2. The water-cooling module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the communication section has a first communication hole and a second communication hole, the first communication hole being aligned with the submersible pump unit, while the second communication hole being eccentric to the pump unit.

3. The water-cooling module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the rotor assembly has a shaft, a fan impeller and at least one hearing, the bearing being assembled with the main body, one end of the shaft being rotatably connected with the bearing, while the other end of the shaft being connected with the fan impeller, the fan impeller having multiple blades, the silicon steel sheets being stacked and the windings being wound around the silicon steel sheets.

4. The water-cooling module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pump unit has a rotor assembly and a stator assembly, the rotor assembly and the stator assembly being correspondingly together disposed in the pump chamber, the rotor assembly having a shaft, a fan impeller and at least one hearing, the bearing being assembled with the fan impeller, one end of a shaft being plug-in connected with the main body, while the other end of the shaft being rotatably connected with the hearing, the fan impeller having multiple blades, the stator assembly having multiple silicon steel sheets and a substrate, the silicon steel sheets being stacked and multiple windings being wound around the silicon steel sheets, the silicon steel sheets and the windings and the substrate being enclosed in a waterproof structure layer.

5. The water-cooling module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the heat transfer unit is made of a material selected from a group consisting of copper, aluminum and good thermal conductor, the heat transfer unit having a heat dissipation section protruding from a heat dissipation face of the heat transfer unit, the heat dissipation section having multiple radiating fins defining therebetween at least one flow way.

6. The water-cooling module as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pump unit includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly arranged around the rotor assembly, the rotor assembly and the stator assembly being correspondingly disposed in the pump chamber, the rotor assembly having a shaft, a fan impeller and at least one bearing, the bearing being assembled with the fan impeller, one end of the shaft being rotatably connected with the bearing, while the other end of the shaft being connected with the main body, the fan impeller having multiple blades, the stator assembly having multiple silicon steel sheets and a substrate, the silicon steel sheets being stacked and multiple windings being wound around the silicon steel sheets, the silicon steel sheets and the windings and the substrate being enclosed in a waterproof structure layer, the stator assembly having a central opening, the fan impeller having a fan impeller main body, the fan impeller main body being correspondingly positioned in the opening without contacting therewith, a magnetic member being further disposed between an outer circumference of the fan impeller main body and a wall of the opening.

Assignees

• Tsai Bor-Bin
• Asia Vital Components Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tsai Bor-Bin

Classifications

• H10W40/47

  by flowing liquids, e.g. forced water cooling · CPC title

• F04D29/5893

  heat insulation or conduction · CPC title

• F04D29/445

  especially adapted for liquid pumps · CPC title

• F04D13/0673

  the motor being of the inside-out type · CPC title

• F04D13/0626

  Details of the can · CPC title