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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2000
Kanichi Kadotani, Kanagawa, JP;
Makio Tsubota, Kanagawa, JP;
Hironori Akiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadayuki Hanamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Komatsu LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a temperature control device with excellent temperature uniformity and thermal response, which can be manufactured easily, and a manufacturing method for the same. A thermoelectric device is arranged between a substrate mounting plate and a cooling plate . Copper foil electrodes , . . . on the upper side of the thermoelectric device are adhered to a lower surface of the substrate mounting plate with an adhesive sheet covering substantially the entire lower surface of the substrate mounting plate , and copper foil electrodes , . . . on the lower side of the thermoelectric device are adhered to an upper surface of the cooling plate with an adhesive sheet covering substantially the entire upper surface of the substrate mounting plate . The total thickness of the adhesive sheet and the copper foil electrodes adhering to it, and the total thickness of the adhesive sheet and the copper foil electrodes adhering to it, is each set approximately 25 to 1000 &mgr;m thin, so as to make the thermal resistance sufficiently low. Thermoelectric conversion elements and are distributed across a large area covering at least the entire area corresponding to the substrate