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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 06, 2020
Atsumitec Co. Ltd., Shizuoka, JP;
Naoki Uchiyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuya Kubo, Shizuoka, JP;
ATSUMIIEC CO. LTD., Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An exhaust-gas electricity generation unit is provided between an engine unit and a discharge unit. The exhaust-gas electricity generation unit includes a connecting pipe connecting the engine unit to the discharge unit and defining an exhaust-gas flow passage in which exhaust gas expelled from the engine unit flows, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion modules provided on an inner surface of the connecting pipe, along flow of heat, near the engine unit and near the discharge unit, and a flow-velocity increasing mechanism for causing the exhaust gas in the connecting pipe to have an increased flow velocity near the discharge unit than near the engine unit.