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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7994415 | Thermoelectric device and power generation method using the same The thermoelectric device of the present invention includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed to be opposed to each other, and a laminate that is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, is connected electrically to b... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7384704 | Methods and apparatus for controlling the temperature of an automobile battery A method and apparatus maintain the temperature of a automobile battery within a predetermined temperature range even though the ambient temperature is outside of the predetermined temperature range. The apparatus and the method utilize a thermoelectric device that ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7305839 | Thermal transfer device and system and method incorporating same A thermal transfer device having a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and first and second electrodes disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer. The thermal transfer device also includes a release layer disposed between t... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7290596 | Thermal management of systems having localized regions of elevated heat flux A thermal management system (300) includes a first heat transfer body (330) for providing a opposing heat flux to a localized region of elevated heat flux residing in adjacency to a region of lesser flux, such as on a surface (315a) of a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278268 | Thermally efficient CCD camera housing A system and method of cooling a CCD camera may employ a composite material housing design that allows the cold side of a TEC to be mounted relatively close to the CCD and the hot side of the TEC to be isolated from the housing cavity in which the CCD resides. An ef... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260939 | Thermal transfer device and system and method incorporating same A method of manufacturing a thermal transfer device including providing first and second thermally conductive substrates that are substantially atomically flat, providing a patterned electrical barrier having a plurality of closed shapes on the first thermally condu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7246496 | Thermoelectric based heating and cooling system for a hybrid-electric vehicle A heating and cooling system including a first and second thermoelectric module each has a first surface and a second surface. In thermal communication with the first and second surfaces of the thermoelectric modules are separate heat exchangers. A thermal storage d... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235735 | Thermoelectric devices utilizing double-sided Peltier junctions and methods of making the devices A thermoelectric device and method of manufacturing the device, where thermoelectric elements of opposite conductivity type are located on respective opposing sides of a heat source member. Heat sinks are disposed on opposite sides of the thermoelectric elements. Pe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231772 | Compact, high-efficiency thermoelectric systems A number of compact, high-efficiency thermoelectric system utilizing the advantages of thermal isolation in the direction of a working medium flow or movement, in manufacturable systems, are described. Such configurations exhibit high system efficiency and power den... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7190587 | Fanless high-efficiency cooling device using ion wind Disclosed herein is a fanless high-efficiency cooling device that is applicable to electronic products having heat sources, such as plasma display panel (PDP) televisions, liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions, and liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors. The fanle... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7152710 | Self-powered, heat-activated LED vehicle exhaust tip assembly A self-powered, heat-activated LED exhaust tip assembly (10) that is comprised of three major elements: a cylindrical enclosure (12), a heat conducting sub-assembly (80) and an electronics circuit (130). The sub-assembly (80) consi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7129640 | Integrated circuit device for driving a laser diode with reduced heat transfer and method for fabricating the device An integrated circuit (IC) device for driving a light emitting device, such as a laser diode, includes a heat-absorbing structure fabricated on a substrate over an electrical component, such as an output transistor, to reduce the heat transfer between the electrical... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129501 | Radiation detector system having heat pipe based cooling A radiation detector system having a heat pipe based cooling. The radiation detector system includes a radiation detector thermally coupled to a thermo electric cooler (TEC). The TEC cools down the radiation detector, whereby heat is generated by the TEC. A heat rem... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7100369 | Thermoelectric generating device A thermoelectric generating device has a thermoelectric element which utilizes an exhaust gas from an engine as a high temperature heat source and an engine coolant as a low temperature heat source in order to generate electricity. An introducing passage introduces ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7081677 | Thermoelectric module A thermoelectric module is constituted by a pair of substrates having electrodes, which are arranged opposite to each other with a prescribed space therebetween, in which a prescribed number of thermoelectric elements are arranged in such a way that a p-type and an ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7038234 | Thermoelectric module with Si/SiGe and B4C/B9C super-lattice legs A super-lattice thermoelectric device. The device includes p-legs and n-legs, each leg having a large number of alternating layers of two materials with differing electron band gaps. The n-legs in the device are comprised of alternating layers of silicon and silicon... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034411 | Application of low-temperature and solid-state pyroelectric energy converter An application of low-temperature and solid-state pyroelectric energy converter for converting heat produced from low-temperature operations into electric energy, which utilizes man-made waste heat or waste heat from natural environments for producing changes in mat... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7022553 | Compact system module with built-in thermoelectric cooling An improved integrated circuit package for providing built-in heating or cooling to a semiconductor chip is provided. The improved integrated circuit package provides increased operational bandwidth between different circuit devices, e.g. logic and memory chips. The... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003962 | Thermoelectric transducer, a manufacturing method thereof, a cooling device using the same, and a method for controlling the cooling device A thermoelectric transducer comprising an emitter (1) for emitting electrons according to the action of heat or an electric field, a collector (2) disposed so as to face the emitter (1) and collect electrons emitted from the emitter (1), ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6987650 | Device with thermoelectric cooling Increasing the output signal from CPP GMR devices by increasing the read current has not previously been considered an option because it would make the device run too hot. This problem has been overcome by using, for the upper and lower leads, materials that differ ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6964501 | Peltier-cooled LED lighting assembly A high-powered lighting assembly includes an easily sealed continuous thermal barrier and a solid-state actively controlled closed-loop refrigeration system to maximize operational efficiencies and increase unit life. The thermal barrier prevents thermal back-flow f... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6951456 | Microcombustor and combustion-based thermoelectric microgenerator A generally toroidal counterflow heat exchanger is the main element of a combustor that operates at a micro scale. The combustor includes a central combustion region with openings to a reactant gas channel and an exhaust gas channel. The reactant channel and exhaust... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6907322 | Method and apparatus for characterization of thermal response of GMR sensors in magnetic heads for disk drives A method and apparatus for characterization of a thermal response of giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors in magnetic read/write heads is provided. The method and apparatus make use of a probe to measure temperatures at a base and a tip of the probe. With the method... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6894215 | Thermoelectric module A thermoelectric module with a simple structure with less breakage by thermal stress is provided. For this purpose, the thermoelectric module includes p-type and n-type thermoelectric elements (13, 14) which are alternately placed, and outer electrodes (15... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6743972 | Heat dissipating IC devices Heat dissipating IC devices including at least one IC die comprising a semiconductor substrate with circuitry which utilize thermoelectric effects to more effectively dissipate thermal energy from electronic circuits. ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6727422 | Heat sink/heat spreader structures and methods of manufacture A heat sink/heat spreader structure utilizing thermoelectric effects to efficiently transport thermal energy from a variety of heat sources including integrated circuits and other electronic components. A method for manufacturing the heat sink/spreader is also discl... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6705089 | Two stage cooling system employing thermoelectric modules A cooling system is provided for cooling a heat generating component of an electronic device. The cooling system includes at least two cooling subsystems for a staged reduction of the temperature of a cooling fluid exposed to heat generated by the heat generated com... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6686532 | Heat sink/heat spreader structures and methods of manufacture A heat sink/heat spreader structure utilizing thermoelectric effects to efficiently transport thermal energy from a variety of heat sources including integrated circuits and other electronic components. A method for manufacturing the heat sink/spreader is... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6658860 | Counter-flow heat pump Counter-current heat flow systems are disclosed, where heat containing medium flows in adjacent conduits arranged anti-parallel to one another so that the medium flowing from a warm zone to a cool zone flows adjacent to the medium flowing from the cool to... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6613972 | Microcombustor and combustion-based thermoelectric microgenerator A generally toroidal counterflow heat exchanger is the main element of a combustor that operates at a micro scale. The combustor includes a central combustion region with openings to a reactant gas channel and an exhaust gas channel. The reactant channel ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6548750 | Solid state thermoelectric device The solid state thermoelectric device includes at least an array of metallic conductor and/or N-type and P-type semiconductor thermoelectric elements assembled on a printed circuit and forming thermoelectric couples electrically connected in series. The s... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6467275 | Cold point design for efficient thermoelectric coolers A thermoelectric device is provided. In one embodiment, the thermoelectric device includes a first portion of a thermoelement and a second portion of the thermoelement. The first portion of the thermoelement is thermally coupled to a hot plate. The second... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6434000 | Environmental system for rugged disk drive An arrangement for supplementing passive heat transfer from a hard disk drive housing to a surrounding environmental housing includes active heat transfer devices and an arrangement biasing the disk drive housing into heat conducting contact with the envi... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6402369 | Arrayable thermal assays Provided are, among other things, devices for and methods for performing thermal signature assays on a two or more samples in an array, using active/control base thermopiles, the method comprising: [a] performing a heat transfer to the two or more samples... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6374616 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger for executing heat exchange between heat exchange between heat exchange bodies (6) on a heat radiation side and heat exchange bodies (3) on a heat absorption side, having low thermal resistance and high performance of heat conduction incl... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6347521 | Temperature control device and method for manufacturing the same The invention provides a temperature control device with excellent temperature uniformity and thermal response, which can be manufactured easily, and a manufacturing method for the same. A thermoelectric device 21 is arranged between a substrate mounting ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6346668 | Miniature, thin-film, solid state cryogenic cooler The invention provides a solid-state cooler that provides counter-current electricity flow through a device that includes Peltier junctions interconnecting the opposing flow of current through the device. The combination of counter-current flow with the T... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6329217 | Thermoelectric device and method of fabricating the same A plurality of n-type bar-shaped devices (51) consisting of an n-type thermoelectric semiconductor and a plurality of p-type bar-shaped devices (52) consisting of a p-type thermoelectric semiconductor are regularly disposed or fixed through an insulating ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6324058 | Heat-dissipating apparatus for an integrated circuit device A heat dissipating apparatus includes a base member that has an upright surrounding wall portion confining a receiving space, and a top wall for closing a top side of the receiving space. The base member is adapted to be disposed on a circuit board with a... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6314741 | Thermoelectric device Each of the n-type and p-type thermoelectric semiconductors (8, 9) are regularly arranged so that both end faces thereof form approximately flush interconnection end faces (3a, 3b) and are joined together through insulation, and interconnection electrodes... | 11/13/2001 |
