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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8063298 | Methods of forming embedded thermoelectric coolers with adjacent thermally conductive fields A method of forming a thermoelectric device may include providing a substrate having a surface, and thermally coupling a thermoelectric p-n couple to a first portion of the surface of a substrate. Moreover, the thermoelectric p-n couple may include a p-type thermoel... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7994414 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed that can operate utilizing thermoelectric concepts. According to an embodiment, the semiconductor device can comprise: a source/drain conductor formed of a line of metal material on a substrate; a first gate conductor formed of a ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7893345 | Thermoelectric module device A thermoelectric module device includes a first substrate having inner and outer surfaces, a second substrate having inner and outer surfaces, a Peltier-junction module sandwiched between the inner surfaces of the first and second substrates, the Peltier-junction mo... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7838760 | Trans-thermoelectric device A thermoelectric device having at least one unipolar couple element (22) including two legs (22a) of a same electrical conductivity type. A first-temperature stage (24) is connected to one of the two legs. A second-temperature stage (2... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7435896 | Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element using the material, cooling device and electric apparatus using the element, and electric power generation method and cooling method using the element With conventional thermoelectric conversion materials, their thermoelectric conversion performance has been insufficient, and a problem has been to achieve stable performance in an oxidizing atmosphere and an air atmosphere. In view of this, according to the present... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426910 | Engine system having improved efficiency A propulsion system for a vehicle, comprising of an internal combustion engine, a thermoelectric device in thermal communication with the engine, and a control system for controlling the engine and the thermoelectric device during a first mode, supply electrical ene... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7382584 | Method to increase CCP-CPP GMR output by thermoelectric cooling The problem of increasing the output signal from a CCP-CPP GMR device without having it overheat has been overcome by placing materials that have different thermoelectric potentials on opposing sides of the spacer layer. Heat from the hot junction is removed at the ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371960 | Figure of merit in Ytterbium-Aluminum-Manganese intermetallic thermoelectric and method of preparation This invention provides novel thermoelectric compounds comprising: a) atomic percent Ytterbium b) between 50 and 74.999 atomic percent Aluminum c) between 0.001 and 25 atomic percent Manganese and ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367195 | Application and removal of thermal interface material A method, system and apparatus are described. The apparatus includes a first device to adjust a polarity associated with a thermoelectric (TEC) module. The adjustment is to control the flow of heat. The flow of heat is directed toward a thermal interface material (T... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363777 | Closed cassette and method for heat treating glass sheets A convection compatible closed cassette and method are described herein where the closed cassette is used to heat treat (compact) one or more glass sheets in a uniform manner and in a clean environment. In the preferred embodiment, the closed cassette includes multi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7342170 | Thermoelectric module with Si/SiC and BC/BC super-lattice legs A super-lattice thermoelectric device. The device is comprised of p-legs and n-legs, each leg being comprised of a large number of very thin alternating layers of two materials with differing electron band gaps. The n-legs in the device are comprised of alternating ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342169 | Phonon-blocking, electron-transmitting low-dimensional structures A thermoelectric structure and device including at least first and second material systems having different lattice constants and interposed in contact with each other, and a physical interface at which the at least first and second material systems are joined with ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340304 | Biothermal power source for implantable devices An implantable, rechargeable assembly comprised of an implantable device disposed within a living organism, an electrical storage device connected to the implantable device, and a thermoelectric charging assembly operatively connected to the electrical storage devic... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317296 | Electric motor The electric motor is equipped with an electronic control, for example in the form of a frequency converter (2) and comprises at least one Seebeck element (6) whose one side is connected to the motor (1) in a heat-conducting manner and whose oth... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317159 | Thermoelectric conversion element and method of manufacturing the same, and thermoelectric conversion device using the element The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion element that has high efficiency even at reduced thickness. In this thermoelectric conversion element, striped p-type thermoelectric conversion parts are arranged on one surface of an insulating layer, and s... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312392 | Thermoelectric conversion device, and cooling method and power generating method using the device The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion device having high thermoelectric conversion performance. In this device, electrodes are arranged so that electric current flows in an interlayer direction of a layered substance, unlike the arrangements der... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309830 | Nanostructured bulk thermoelectric material A thermoelectric material comprises two or more components, at least one of which is a thermoelectric material. The first component is nanostructured, for example as an electrically conducting nanostructured network, and can include nanowires, nanoparticles, or othe... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7299639 | Thermoelectric module A thermoelectric module having areas of highly thermally conductive material integrated into a substrate layer. For one embodiment copper pads are integrated into the external surface of the substrate of the hot side of the thermoelectric module. The copper pads all... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7278270 | Insulated container with thermoelectric unit A thermoelectric unit for a thermoelectric insulated container. The thermoelectric unit is configured to be inserted in a small opening in the insulated container. A cold side heat sink is mounted on the portion of the thermoelectric unit that extends inside of the ... | 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 |
| 7244887 | Electrical cells, components and methods Preferred electrode devices (10) including a substrate (11) and cathode (13) and anode material (12) coated thereon in discreet locations are described. The cathode materials desirably include multiple layers of thin metal films (14 | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7223914 | Pulsed electron jump generator A device and method for stimulating pulsed chemical reactions in a small volume of gaseous reactants. An emitter stimulates the reactions of a fuel oxidizer mixture and a collector converts the vibrational energy of the resulting products into useful energy. The dev... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7211891 | Electronic heat pump device, laser component, optical pickup and electronic equipment There is provided a small-size electronic heat pump device which is low in power consumption and which secures a vacuum gap without use of an additional circuit. The electronic heat pump device includes an emitter 1 and a collector 2. An electrically a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209329 | Heat sink and high thermal stability structure for CPP sensor A currently perpendicular to plane (CPP) sensor having a heat sink structure disposed beyond the stripe height of the sensor. The heat sink is preferably in thermal contact with one of the shields/leads of the sensor while being electrically insulated from the other... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195721 | Quantum lilypads and amplifiers and methods of use A nanocomposite having enhanced energy conversion between thermal, electron, phonons, and photons energy states. The composition comprises a synergistic blend of nanoscale powders wherein the powders have nanoscale layered surface modifiers and a conductive medium. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7183646 | Semiconductor chip carrier affording a high-density external interface A semiconductor die carrier may include an insulative substrate; an array of groups of multiple electrically conductive contacts arranged in rows and columns on the insulative substrate, wherein the groups from adjacent rows are staggered as are the groups from adja... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176528 | Glass-based SOI structures Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures, including large area SOI structures, are provided which have one or more regions composed of a layer (15) of a substantially single-crystal semiconductor (e.g., doped silicon) attached to a support substrate (20... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170000 | Apparatus having a cooling device Apparatus having a cooling device capable of both power generation using heat from a heat-generating component and cooling of the heat-generating component is provided. The cooling device has a heat-receiving part which receives heat conducted from a CPU, which is a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164077 | Thin-film thermoelectric cooling and heating devices for DNA genomic and proteomic chips, thermo-optical switching circuits, and IR tags A thermoelectric cooling and heating device including a substrate, a plurality of thermoelectric elements arranged on one side of the substrate and configured to perform at least one of selective heating and cooling such that each thermoelectric element includes a t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7143724 | Power supply device for vehicle A power supply device for a vehicle, for driving a motor which is mounted on a vehicle and makes the vehicle travel. The power supply device for a vehicle includes: a battery unit having a plurality of secondary batteries; a battery temperature sensor for detecting ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133726 | Thermal cycler for PCR An instrument for PCR comprising an assembly, a heated cover, and a computer. The assembly can include a sample block, Peltier devices, and a heat sink, clamped together. The sample block temperature can be changed by controlling the Peltier devices with the compute... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7109408 | Solid state energy converter A solid-state energy converter with a semiconductor or semiconductor-metal implementation is provided for conversion of thermal energy to electric energy, or electric energy to refrigeration. In n-type heat-to-electricity embodiments, a highly doped n* emitter regio... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7098393 | Thermoelectric device with multiple, nanometer scale, elements A thermoelectric device formed of nanowires on the nm scale. The nanowires are preferably of a size that causes quantum confinement effects within the wires. The wires are connected together into a bundle to increase the power density. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096676 | Electric cooling device A cooling device including a housing with at least one cooling channel for cooling a liquid, and with at least one thermoelectric cooling element including a layer of semiconductor material that is sandwiched between two plates, at least one of the plates having an ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7075964 | Diode-pumped solid-state laser oscillator A diode-pumped solid-state laser oscillator optically pumps a laser medium. The oscillator has at least one pumping light source that emits light in a predetermined wavelength band, and a laser medium that absorbs light in the wavelength band. In the wavelength band... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067733 | Thermoelectric material having crystal grains well oriented in certain direction and process for producing the same Thermoelectric material is produced through a process sequence including a liquid quenching, a primary solidification such as a hot pressing or extrusion and an upset forging; although the C-planes of the crystal grains are directed in parallel to the direction in w... | 06/27/2006 |
