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Method of manufacturing a thermoelectric element

US4654224A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 19, 1985
Grant dateMar 31, 1987
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Expiry dateFeb 19, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/12632

Abstract

Disclosed are a thermoelectric device and method of making the device. The device has a plurality of thermoelectric elements electrically in series and thermally in parallel, where the individual thermoelectric elements have a thermoelectric body formed of macroscopically disordered material with electrical contact surfaces at opposite ends and a multi-layered diffusion barrier coating on the electrical contact surfaces.

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