Cooling device

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a cooling device that is easy to attach and that ensures intimate contact at a contact surface between a heat absorbing surface of a Peltier element and an object to be cooled and a contact surface between a heat radiating surface of the Peltier element and a cooling part. A cooling device according to the present invention includes a Peltier element having a heat absorbing surface and a heat radiating surface that are opposite each other; a heat absorbing plate having a first Peltier element attaching surface and located with the first Peltier element attaching surface facing the heat absorbing surface of the Peltier element; a heat radiating plate having a second Peltier element attaching surface and located with the second Peltier element attaching surface facing the heat radiating surface of the Peltier element; heat conducting members having viscosity or elasticity and provided between the heat absorbing surface and the first Peltier element attaching surface and between the heat radiating surface and the second Peltier element attaching surface; and a spacer provided between the heat absorbing plate and the heat radiating plate in parallel with the Peltier element and defining an opposing distance between the first and second Peltier element attaching surfaces.

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