US 2006/0076046 A1 · Thermoelectric device structure and apparatus incorporating same

Abstract

In certain embodiments, a thermoelectric device apparatus includes a plurality of laterally spaced-apart electrodes disposed upon a supporting structure, and at least one complementary pair of thermoelectric elements, each thermoelectric element coupling an electrode to a laterally adjacent electrode. Such a structure reduces the need for solder joints or other structures or mechanisms to attach multiple substrates, components, or assemblies together to form a thermoelectric device.

Claims57

Dependent claims

A thermoelectric device apparatus comprising:

a plurality of laterally spaced-apart electrodes disposed upon a supporting structure;
and
at least one complementary pair of thermoelectric elements, each thermoelectric element coupling an electrode to a laterally adjacent electrode.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/124,365Filed 6 May 2005

Priority

8 Oct 2004

Published

13 Apr 2006

Term ends

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Classification3 codes

H10N 19/00
Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one thermoelectric
H10N 10/17
Operating with only the Peltier or Seebeck effects: characterised by the structure or configuration of the cell or thermocouple forming the device
H10N
Electric solid-state devices not otherwise provided for

Thermoelectric device structure and apparatus incorporating same

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Thermoelectric device structure and apparatus incorporating same

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Abstract

Claims57