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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2012
Applicants:
Stanley R. Shanfield, Newton, MA (US);
Thomas A. Langdo, Cambridge, MA (US);
Marc S. Weinberg, Needham, MA (US);
Albert C. Imhoff, Boxford, MA (US);
Inventors:
Stanley R. Shanfield, Newton, MA (US);
Thomas A. Langdo, Cambridge, MA (US);
Marc S. Weinberg, Needham, MA (US);
Albert C. Imhoff, Boxford, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/02 (2006.01); H03B 5/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A thermoelectric device transfers heat away from or toward an object using the Peltier effect. In some embodiments, the length of at least one thermoelectric element is at least ten times greater than a combined average cross-sectional dimension, orthogonal to the length, of two thermoelectric elements.