Abstract
An Electro-Conjugate Fluid (ECF) is one of functional fluids. A strong jet flow is generated between electrodes when a high voltage is applied to ECF through electrodes. By using this strong jet flow, a pump with simple structure, no noise and no vibration can be developed. And, it will be possible to realize a new liquid cooling system by ECF to cool CPU for personal computer. Then, it is important and necessary to make the size of ECF-pump compact. To develop a compact ECF-pump, some of authors had proposed several types of ECF-pump with mesh electrodes without bonding agent. Though these pumps had remarkable properties, it was difficult to prevent the leakage between the mesh electrodes or the structure of pump was complicated. We proposed a new type ECF-pump with simple structure and investigated its basic characteristics. However, to realize a new liquid cooling system for CPU by ECF, it is necessary to make pump characteristics higher and pump size more compact. In this study, how to make the performance of mesh electrode higher is described. Furthermore, a miniaturized new type ECF-pump is proposed and the basic characteristics are investigated by experiments.
