Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Electric power generator
Patent
1997-05-21
1999-12-07
Gorgos, Kathryn
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Electric power generator
136242, 136201, 429104, 429112, H01L 3530
Patent
active
059987286
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an ionic and electronic insulator interposed between a BASE tube and a tube mounting member in an AMTEC cell for preventing shunt currents from forming between BASE tube electrodes. In a first embodiment of the invention, an insulator is formed integral with the BASE tube by leaching out an alkali metal ion component of the BASE tube at a desired location. In a second embodiment of the present invention, an alpha alumina ring is brazed to the end of the BASE tube. In a third embodiment of the present invention, a glass material seal is formed between the BASE tube and the mounting member.
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Hunt Thomas Kintzing
Sievers Robert K.
Advanced Modular Power Systems, Inc.
Gorgos Kathryn
Parsons Thomas H.
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