Intercooler provided with a thermoelectric generator for a turbocharged internal combustion heat engine

An intercooler (9) for a turbocharged internal combustion heat engine (1);

• the intercooler (9) comprises:
• a cooling chamber (19), which is provided with an air inlet opening (17) and an air outlet opening (18) opposite one another;
• a plurality of exchanger plates (20), which are stacked on top of one another inside the cooling chamber (19), are internally hollow, are arranged parallel to an air flowing direction (D) from the inlet opening (17) to the outlet opening (18), and are spaced apart from one another to define corresponding air passage channels between one another so that air flowing from the inlet opening (17) to the outlet opening (18) through the air passage channels to be cooled laps an outer surface of the exchanger plates (20);
• a circulation circuit (21), which allows a cooling fluid to circulate inside the exchanger plates (20);
• and
• a plurality of thermoelectric cells (24), each of which has a parallelepiped shape, is mounted on a corresponding exchanger plate (20), and has a cold side resting on the exchanger plate (20) and a hot side delimiting a corresponding air passage channel so that air flowing from the inlet opening (17) to the outlet opening (18) through the air passage channel laps an outer surface of the thermoelectric cells (24);
• wherein each exchanger plate (20) comprises at least one parallelepipedal pocket (25), which is dug inside the exchanger plate (20), reproduces in negative the shape of a corresponding thermoelectric cell (24) and houses therein the corresponding thermoelectric cell (24) surrounding the corresponding thermoelectric cell (24) on five sides in such a way that the hot side of the corresponding thermoelectric cell (24) is flush with an external surface of the corresponding exchanger plate (20).