Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Electric power generator
Patent
1976-09-30
1978-06-20
Wilbur, Maynard R.
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Electric power generator
136205, 136218, H01L 3504, H01L 3530
Patent
active
040959988
ABSTRACT:
A thermoelectric voltage generator utilizing heat from a vehicle exhaust to rovide a differential temperature through a plurality of thermoelectric elements comprised of serially connected alternate N- and P-type semiconductors having alternate electrical contacts between adjacent elements at a hot side and at a cold side to produce electrical energy in accordance with the Seebeck effect and in which the electrical energy is applied to an external device by way of connections at opposite ends of said plurality of thermoelectric elements.
REFERENCES:
patent: 808086 (1905-12-01), Heil
patent: 1118269 (1914-11-01), Creveling
patent: 3794527 (1974-02-01), Kim
patent: 3833428 (1974-09-01), Snyder et al.
Berger Richard E.
Edelberg Nathan
Gibson Robert P.
Harwell Max L.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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