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US 2022/0045257 A1Published application
Thermoelectric element assembly, method for manufacturing the same, and thermoelectric module comprising the same
AssigneeUniversity of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation
InventorSang II KIM
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Abstract
Provided is a thermoelectric element assembly including a soft support including a plurality of through-holes, and a plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements inserted into a plurality of through-holes of the support, wherein a thickness of the support is less than a length of the thermoelectric element.
Claims10
A thermoelectric element assembly, comprising
- a soft support including a plurality of through-holes, and
- a plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements inserted into a plurality of through-holes of the support,
- wherein a thickness of the support is less than a length of the thermoelectric elements.
A method of manufacturing a thermoelectric element assembly, comprising
- preparing a template including a plurality of empty spaces partitioned by a plurality of hard polymer partition walls and including a plurality of through-holes penetrating the plurality of hard polymer partition walls,
- inserting a plurality of n-type thermoelectric element extruded bodies and a plurality of p-type thermoelectric element extruded bodies into a plurality of through-holes of the template,
- injecting a liquid soft polymer into a plurality of empty spaces of the template and solidifying it to form a soft support,
- cutting each of the plurality of hard polymer partition walls to be horizontally divided in a plane direction, and
- removing the hard polymer on and/or under the soft support.
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A method of manufacturing a thermoelectric element assembly, comprising
- cutting the n-type thermoelectric element extruded body and the p-type thermoelectric element extruded body to manufacture a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements and a plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements,
- forming a functional coating layer including a nickel-phosphorus (Ni—P) diffusion barrier layer, a tin (Sn) plating bonding functional layer, or both on the upper and/or lower surfaces of the plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements and the plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements, and
- inserting the plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements and the plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements into a plurality of through-holes of a soft support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.