Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Peltier effect device
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-16
2007-01-16
Nguyen, Nam (Department: 1753)
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Peltier effect device
C257S108000, C435S006120
Reexamination Certificate
active
10118236
ABSTRACT:
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 thermoelectric material, a Peltier contact contacting the thermoelectric material and forming under electrical current flow at least one of a heated junction and a cooled junction, and electrodes configured to provide current through the thermoelectric material and the Peltier contact. As such, the thermoelectric cooling and heating device selectively biases the thermoelectric elements to provide on one side of the thermolectric device a grid of localized heated or cooled junctions.
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