Title: Component for thermoelectric generator

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Claims: It is claimed:

1. An electrical component for a thermoelectric converter including a tape formed of cloth composed of electrically insulating threads interlaced with a large number of thermoelectric wires having terminal ends, a ceramic insulator having, over limited areas thereof, each area corresponding to a terminal end, a coating of a first metal which adheres to said insulator, and an electrical thermoelectric junction including a second metal, which wets said first metal and adheres to said terminal ends but does not wet said insulator, the said junction including said first and second metals and said terminal ends.

2. The component of claim 1 wherein the tape includes a layer of heat-radiation reflecting material.

3. The component of claim 1 wherein each terminal end is formed of at least one pair of wires, one wire of said pair being of opposite thermoelectric kind to the other wire of the pair.
Other info:

Inventors: Purdy, David L. (Indiana, PA, US)

Application Number: 631588
Filing Date: 1975-11-13
Publication_date: 1977-02-01
Assignee: ARCO Medical Products Company (Leechburg, PA)
Primary Class(es): 136/237 136/224, 136/225, 976/DIG416
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3816182	Jun, 1974	McAdam	136/225.
3925104	Dec, 1975	Thomas	136/225.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Sebastian, Leland A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Ewbank; John R.