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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Emitec Gesellschaft Fuer Emissionstechnologie Mbh, Lohmar, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Andreas Eder, Munich, DE;
Stefan Neugebauer, Ohlstadt, DE;
Matthias Linde, Munich, DE;
Sigrid Limbeck, Much, DE;
Rolf Brueck, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbH, Lohmar, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A thermoelectric module includes an inner circumferential surface, an axis and an outer circumferential surface. A plurality of semiconductor elements is disposed with thermoelectric material in the direction of the axis and between the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface and are electrically interconnected in an alternating manner. At least one part of the semiconductor elements has at least one inner frame part or an outer frame part. At least some of the inner frame parts form an interrupted inner circumferential surface or outer frame parts form an interrupted outer circumferential surface.