US 7,024,865 B2 · Thermoelectric device

Abstract

In order to provide a highly reliable thermoelectric device, in a thermoelectric device, a plurality of heat-radiating-side electrodes, arranged in accordance with positions where respective thermoelectric elements are to be arranged, are arrayed in an array fashion on a planer surface of a heat-radiating-side board. Heat-radiating-side end surfaces of the plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements and n-type thermoelectric elements and the heat-radiating-side electrodes are joined together by solders. Heat-absorbing-side electrodes are brought into sliding contact with heat-absorbing-side end surfaces of these thermoelectric elements.

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Dependent claims

A thermoelectric device comprising:

a wiring board;
a plurality of thermoelectric elements of which one end surfaces are joined with the wiring board;
a plurality of electrode members arranged to slidably contact other end surfaces of the plurality of thermoelectric elements;
a lid which holds the plurality of thermoelectric elements and the plurality of electrode members, the lid being arranged so that pressure is applied in a direction from the one end surfaces of the thermoelectric elements to the other end surfaces thereof;
and
a coupling member which maintains a relative position of the wiring board and the lid.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/896,998Filed 23 Jul 2004

Priority

JP 2003-20212125 Jul 2003

Published

US 2005/0016183 A127 Jan 2005

Granted

11 Apr 2006

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H10N 10/813
Structural details of the junction: the junction being separable, e.g. using a spring
H05K 1/0204
Cooling of mounted components: using means for thermal conduction connection in the thickness direction of the substrate
H10N 10/01
Thermoelectric devices comprising a junction of dissimilar materials, i.e. devices exhibiting Seebeck or Peltier effects: manufacture or treatment
H10N 10/13
Operating with only the Peltier or Seebeck effects: characterised by the heat-exchanging means at the junction

Thermoelectric device

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Thermoelectric device

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Abstract

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