US 8,895,833 B2Granted

Thermoelectric device and thermoelectric module

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

InventorsYasunari Ukita, Jun Karasawa, Naruhito Kondo, Osamu Tsuneoka

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Abstract

According to one embodiment, a thermoelectric device is provided with thermoelectric elements and formed of a material capable of exhibiting the thermoelectric effect and a first electrode located at end portions of the thermoelectric elements. The first electrode includes an electrode member, a soaking member having electrical conductivity, located between the electrode member and the thermoelectric elements, and including facing portions facing the thermoelectric elements and folded portions folded back at peripheral edges of the facing portions so as to lie on the opposite side to the thermoelectric elements, and an elastic member located on the opposite side of the facing portions to the thermoelectric elements, at least a part of the peripheral edge of the elastic member being held between the folded portions and the facing portions of the soaking member.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A thermoelectric device comprising:

a pair of thermoelectric elements spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and comprising a material capable of exhibiting the thermoelectric effect;
and
a first electrode located at one end of the thermoelectric element, the first electrode covering first ends of the thermoelectric elements, an electrode member,
a soaking member located between the electrode member and the thermoelectric elements, and comprising a pair of facing portions facing the thermoelectric elements, a connection portion connecting the facing portions and bent and inserted between the thermoelectric elements, and a folded portion located at a peripheral edge of the facing portions and folded away from the thermoelectric elements;
and
an elastic plate member located on an opposite side of the facing portions to the thermoelectric elements, at least a part of the peripheral edge of the elastic member being held and positioned between the folded portion and the facing portions of the soaking member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/964,152Filed 9 Dec 2010
Priority: JP 2009-28060910 Dec 2009
Published: US 2011/0139206 A116 Jun 2011
Granted: 25 Nov 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

H10N 10/813
Structural details of the junction: the junction being separable, e.g. using a spring
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