Thermoelectric module for a thermoelectric generator of a vehicle and vehicle having thermoelectric modules

US9318683B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• EMITEC Gesellschaft fuer Emissionstechnologie mbH · DE
• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Eder · Weißenstein, AT
• Stefan Neugebauer · Ohlstadt, DE
• Matthias LINDE · Munich, DE
• SIGRID LIMBECK · Much, DE
• ROLF BRUECK · Bensberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2013
• Grant date: Apr 19, 2016
• Expiry date: May 3, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.