Control board, electronic equipment, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKenichi Watanabe
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Abstract
To provide a control board for efficiently generating electric energy in a power generating device from heat generated from an electronic device. A control board includes a board including a first heat dissipating pad; an electronic device including a second heat dissipating pad to dissipate heat; a power generating device including a Peltier device which converts heat energy generated from the electronic device into electric energy, wherein the power generating device is sandwiched between the first heat dissipating pad and the second heat dissipating pad; and a power supply circuit configured to reuse the electric energy.
Claims11
A control board comprising:
- a board including a first heat dissipating pad;
- an electronic device including a second heat dissipating pad to dissipate heat;
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- a power generating device including
- a Peltier device configured to convert heat energy generated from the electronic device into electric energy, and
- wiring configured to connect a first terminal of the electronic device and a second terminal of the board,
- wherein the power generating device is sandwiched between the first heat dissipating pad and the second heat dissipating pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.