Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Processes
Patent
1999-01-25
2000-11-07
Gorgos, Kathryn
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Processes
136205, 136242, H01L 3500
Patent
active
061439754
ABSTRACT:
A system and method which will generate power from waste heat in a data processing system in such a way that system waste heat is reduced within, and no additional power is drawn from, the data processing system. The system includes a thermoelectric regenerator having a hot junction formed between a first material and a second material and a cold junction formed between the first material and the second material; the hot junction located at a hot junction position defined by a hot junction horizontal location and a hot junction vertical location defined relative to a point on a heat source; and the cold junction located at a cold junction position defined by a cold junction horizontal location and a cold junction vertical location defined relative to the point on the heat source such that the difference between the hot junction horizontal location and the cold junction horizontal location yields a non-zero horizontal location difference. The method includes placing a hot junction of a thermoelectric regenerator at a hot junction horizontal position defined relative to a point on a heat source; and placing a cold junction of the thermoelectric generator at a cold junction horizontal position defined relative to a point on a heat source such that the difference between the hot junction horizontal location and the cold junction horizontal location yields a non-zero horizontal location difference.
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Liao Reynold L.
O'Neal Sean P.
Cook Dale R.
Dell USA L.P.
Gorgos Kathryn
Parsons Thomas H
Terrile Stephen A.
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