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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2011
Ming-lang Hung, Hsinchu, TW;
Jyi-ching Peng, Hsinchu, TW;
Ya-wen Chou, Hsinchu, TW;
Yi-ray Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Ming-Lang Hung, Hsinchu, TW;
Jyi-Ching Peng, Hsinchu, TW;
Ya-Wen Chou, Hsinchu, TW;
Yi-Ray Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A thermoelectric drinking apparatus has a feeding pipe, a cooling-gain circulating loop, a heating-gain circulating loop, an outlet pipe, and a thermoelectric heat pump. The thermoelectric heat pump has a cooling unit attached to the cold side of a thermoelectric chip, which has a cooling channel in its interior, and a heating unit attached to the hot side of the thermoelectric chip and provided with a heating channel in its interior. The feeding pipe conducts fluid into the cooling channel and the heating channel respectively. The cooling-gain and heating-gain circulating loop respectively cause fluids in the cooling channel and heating channel to create circular flows, such that the cold side and hot side of the thermoelectric chip respectively cool and heat the fluids via the cooling channel and heating channel. The outlet pipe discharges the cooled and/or heated fluids respectively from the cooling-gain circulating loop and heating-gain circulating loop.