Microwave heat pipe heating system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Turning now descriptively to the drawings, in which similar reference characters denote similar elements throughout the several views, FIG.
1 illustrates a microwave heat pipe heating system 10 consisting of a domestic hot water tank 12 having a cold water inlet pipe 14 and a hot water outlet pipe 15 connected to a normal water circulation system (not shown).
A microwave containment enclosure 16 is mounted to the underside of a bottom wall 18 of the domestic hot water tank 12.
A microwave generator 20 has a wave guide 22 for directing microwave beams into the microwave containment enclosure 16.
At least one sealed heat pipe 24 is provided having self contained water 26 therein.
The heat pipe 24 extends from the microwave containment enclosure 16 into the domestic hot water tank 12 so that the self contained water 26 heated by the microwave beams will cause the sealed heat pipe 24 extending into the domestic hot water tank 12 to heat water 28 therein for use in the normal water circulation system.
The sealed heat pipe 24 contains a top portion 30 fabricated out of a heat conductive metal that will extend through the bottom wall 18 of the domestic hot water tank 12.
A protective coating 32 is applied onto the interior surface of the top portion 30 to prevent microwave damage.
A bottom portion 34 is fabricated out of microwave permeable material that will extend through the top wall 37 of the microwave containment enclosure 16.
A connector 35 is for sealing the top portion 30 to the bottom portion 34 to keep the self contained water 26 therein.
The sealed heat pipe 24 is slightly slanted from a vertical position between the domestic hot water tank 12 and the microwave containment enclosure 16.
When the self contained water 26 inside the sealed heat pipe 24 is boiled to steam 36 inside the bottom portion 34, it will convert to the top portion 30 to heat the water 28 in the domestic hot water tank 12.
The steam 36 will then cool and condense back into water droplets 38 to drip down the slightly slanted sealed heat pipe 24 back into the bottom portion 34 in which the water 26 can be heated again into steam 36