The invention relates to heat
engineering, in particular to heat pipes, and may be used for heat removal from miniature heat-tensioned objects, in particular elements of radioelectronic devices and computers requiring effective heat removal within minimum dimensions of a cooling
system. The invention is aimed at increasing a
heat load of the evaporating chamber at a given
operating temperature and reducing its dimensions. For this purpose, in the evaporating chamber of a
loop heat pipe comprising a body that includes side and end-face walls and a capillary porous packing accommodated in said body and having vapor-removal channels tied together by a vapor collector, and disposed on a portion of the packing perimeter at the heat-
supply side, and having an asymmetrical longitudinal opening shifted in the direction opposite to the
heat supply, the end-faces of the vapor-removal channels being blind at one side, the asymmetrical longitudinal opening is also being blind at the side opposite to the blind end-faces of the vapor-removal channels, and the vapor collector is formed by one of the end-face walls of the body and the packing end-face. Besides, on the inner side surface of the body, additional vapor-removal grooves are provided. Cross-section of the asymmetrical longitudinal opening may have the form of a rectangle elongated in the direction of the
heat supply and limited at the opposite side by a body wall, or the form of a wedge, whose apex faces the
heat supply and whose base is a body wall, or the form of a segment, whose chord is directed towards the heat supply and the arc is a body wall, or the form of a circle limited by a capillary porous packing and whose center is shifted in the direction opposite to the heat supply. Cross-section of the evaporating chamber may be made rectangular, the asymmetrical longitudinal opening, which has the form of a slot gap being shifted in the direction opposite to the heat supply. The capillary porous packing may consist of two interconnected parts. The outlet of the condensate line is positioned in the asymmetrical longitudinal opening of the capillary porous packing.