Modular Cold Plates for High Heat Fluxes 

Thermacore, Inc.  

Lancaster, PA 
 

Modular and flexible, high thermal capacity heat pipes for cooling spacecraft electronics and experiments

• Developed and demonstrated prototype hardware, consisting of a  modular clamp-on plate, flexible heat pipe cold plate, and thermal bus receptacle
• This technology led to an orientation insensitive flexible loop heat pipe (LHP)
• Indium lined clamped interface joint demonstrated low thermal resistance attachment to the thermal bus

• Product revenue growth $300K (1980’s) to $3M (1990’s)

• Provide mechanical support and transfer waste heat from  Space Station equipment/experiments to the thermal bus
• Cooling of aircraft and spacecraft electronics
• Obtained Navy and Air Force contracts to demonstrate a family of flexible heat pipe cold plates for cooling aircraft electronics

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