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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Soon-Jae Kwon, Yongin-Si, KR;
Numazawa Takenori, Tsukuba, JP;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic refrigerator, and a device including the same, include a hot-end heat exchanger, a cold-end heat exchanger, a magnetic material arranged so as to provide a temperature gradient between the hot-end heat exchanger and the cold-end heat exchanger, and a heat exchange medium, and satisfying the following Equation 1.>1  E1In Equation 1, Tis a temperature of a hot-end heat exchanger, Tis a temperature of a cold-end heat exchanger, ΔSis an entropy change of a magnetic material at T, and ΔSis an entropy change of a magnetic material at T.