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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Yasuhiro Kawaguchi, Kasugai, JP;
Hideo Yumi, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroki Kitano, Kasugai, JP;
Kenta Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Kimihiro Ozaki, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuhiro Kawaguchi, Kasugai, JP;
Hideo Yumi, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroki Kitano, Kasugai, JP;
Kenta Takagi, Nagoya, JP;
Kimihiro Ozaki, Nagoya, JP;
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Inazawa-shi, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
In a thermoelectric conversion module, each of a p-type element and an n-type element is configured by aligning a plurality of particles in series and connecting the particles to each other. Around a connection part in which the particles are connected to each other, a protrusion is protruded. The protrusion has a shape of continuously extending around the entire periphery of the connection part. The protrusion may be partly interrupted, but in such a case, a circumferential length of one interrupted portion is less than one half of the periphery of the connection part.