Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Nakamura

Yui Saitou

Satoshi Maeshima

Akihiro Horikawa

Shuzo Tsuchida

Hajime Shimayama

Koichi Saruhashi

A thermoelectric conversion element includes: a thermoelectric member that is columnar; an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member; and a metal layer formed continuously on an edge surface of the thermoelectric member and an edge surface of the insulator. An edge portion of the thermoelectric member and an edge portion of the insulator define a gap covered with the metal layer. The inner portion of the gap covered with the metal layer is a void.

Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module

A thermoelectric conversion element includes a thermoelectric member that is columnar and an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member. Particles are enclosed between the thermoelectric member and the insulator.

In a coating apparatus and a method thereof according to the present invention, the coating-solution receiving region of a porous materialis smaller in bubble diameter than the contact region of a porous materialwith a substrate. Thus, even if the substrateis curved or wavy, a coating filmcan be easily and evenly applied to the substrate

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Nakamura