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US 9,310,113 B2Granted
Thermoelectric heat pump apparatus
AssigneeIndustrial Technology Research Institute
InventorsMing-Lang Hung, Yan-Ching Lee, Jyi-Ching Perng, Ya-Wen Chou, Yi-Ray Chen
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Abstract
A drinking dispenser has a warm water container; a hot water container coupled to the warm water container; a water supplying apparatus separately coupled to the warm water container and the hot water container; and a thermoelectric heat pump apparatus, configured with a pump that is arranged coupling to the water container and a thermoelectric module in respective coupled to the water container and the pump.
Claims10
A thermoelectric heat pump apparatus, adapted for a container, comprising:
- a thermoelectric module, separately coupled to the water container;
- and
- a pump, coupled to the thermoelectric module;
- wherein the thermoelectric module further comprises:
- a first heat exchanger, a fan, at least one thermoelectric chip, and a second heat exchanger;
- and the first heat exchanger is connected respectively to the fan and the at least one thermoelectric chip, while the second heat exchanger is connected respectively to the thermoelectric chip and the container;
- wherein the first heat exchanger is further configured with a contact plate, a first insulator and a second insulator in a manner that the contact plate is arranged at a position between the heat exchanger and the thermoelectric chip, the first insulator is arranged at a position between the thermoelectric chip and the contact plate, while the second insulator is arranged wrapping around the heat transfer unit;
- wherein the second heat exchanger is configured with a first panel and a second panel, and the first panel is further formed with a flow distributor, a flow channel and a flow collector on a surface thereof, while enabling the flow channel to be disposed between the flow distributor and the flow collector;
- and the second panel, being coupled to the first panel, is formed with an inlet hole, a flow channel and an outlet hole, while enabling the flow channel of the second panel to be disposed between the inlet hole and the outlet hole at a position corresponding to the flow channel of the first panel in a condition that the outlet hole is positioned near to the flow collector;
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- wherein each of the two flow channels is a collection of a plurality of V-shaped flow channels.
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