Claims
- 1. A thermoelectric module having a hot junction and a cold junction and having a heat-transfer assembly at its hot junctions, said assembly including a pair of metallic heat-conducting plates having compressed therebetween a thermally conducting and electrically insulating member, said member being coated on each side with a thermally-conducting layer of material which does not diffusion bond to the member and permits separation of the plates.
- 2. The module of claim 1 wherein each of the plates is composed of a corrosive resistant nickel-base alloy, the member is composed of alumina and the layers are composed of gold.
- 3. In a generator including a heat source, a thermoelectric module having a hot junction and a cold junction, and a heat sink including a thermally conducting plate through which heat is dissipated to fins, the improvement which consists of a shock-mount support for said module interposed between said cold junction and said plate, said support including resilient means urging said hot junction into effective heat-exchange relationship with said heat source, said support also including deformable highly-thermally conducting means thermally connecting said cold junction and said plate and providing a deformable highly-thermally conducting path from said cold junction to said plate, said deformable means being spaced from said resilient means, said deformable means consisting of crinkled copper strips.
Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 142,070 filed May 10, 1971, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,822,151, which was a continuation of Ser. No. 601,697 filed Dec. 14, 1966, now abandoned.
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