Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090302021 | Method for Making A Glow Element, A Spark Element, or A Heating Element for A Combustion Device and/or A Heating Device, and Device Thereof - A method for making a glow element, a spark element, or a heating element for combustion and/or heating devices, in particular a glow plug, a spark plug, or a heater, having a corrosion-protective coating for parts of the glow element, spark element, or heating element having a silicon-containing ceramic, and the element thereof. The corrosion-protective coating is composed of a mixture of SiO | 12-10-2009 |
20110091722 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SILICON-CONTAINING CERAMIC STRUCTURES - In a method for producing silicon-containing ceramic structures, structures of a ceramic precursor polymer are provided on the surface of a substrate, the ceramic precursor polymer being selected from the group including polysiloxanes, polycarbosilanes, polysilazanes and/or polyureasilazanes, and the ceramic precursor structures being ceramicized on the substrate. In the method, the structures of the ceramic precursor polymer have a height of ≦20 μm and a width perpendicular to their longitudinal axis of ≦500 μm. | 04-21-2011 |
20130152989 | THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR HAVING AN INTEGRATED PRETENSIONED MOUNTING - A thermoelectric generator and a method for manufacturing a thermoelectric generator are described. The thermoelectric generator, having a housing in which at least one heat source tube, at least one heat sink tube, and at least one generator element are between the heat source tube and the heat sink tube. A pretension mounting device is in the housing and provides an elastic force via which the tubes are pretensioned relative to one another and which compresses the tubes and the generator element in-between. An inner side of the housing of the pretension mounting device forms a support for the pretension mounting device, which is acted upon by a counterforce to the elastic force of the pretension mounting device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156636 | SEMI-HEUSLER/HEUSLER ALLOYS HAVING TAILORED PHASE SEPARATION - An inorganic, intermetallic compound contains at least two elements per formula unit and consists of at least two phases, at least one phase being semiconducting or semimetallic, these at least two phases are immiscible with each other and are thermodynamically stable, so as to allow the thermal conductivity of semi-Heusler alloys to be reduced while at the same time maintaining the electrical conductivity and the thermoelectric voltage. | 06-20-2013 |
20140007915 | THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR FOR A VEHICLE AND HEAT STORAGE DEVICE FOR A THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR OF A VEHICLE - A thermoelectric generator for a vehicle includes a generator housing arranged in an exhaust line of the vehicle and/or in a bypass to the exhaust line and at least one thermoelectric module assigned to at least one first exhaust gas contact surface. Thermal energy is transferred from the first exhaust gas contact surface to the thermoelectric module via at least one heat conduction path and at least one heat storage chamber filled with at least one heat storage material. The heat storage chamber is assigned at least one second exhaust gas contact surface from which thermal energy is configured to be transferred to the heat storage chamber. The heat storage chamber is arranged outside the heat conduction path from the first exhaust gas contact surface to the thermoelectric module. A heat storage device is provided for the thermoelectric generator of the vehicle. | 01-09-2014 |
20140127070 | MATERIAL COMPRISING A SEMI-HEUSLER ALLOY AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUCH A MATERIAL - A material includes at least two different alloy phases. At least two alloy phases are each formed by at least one thermodynamically stable semi-Heusler alloy. The semi-Heusler alloys of the at least two alloy phases are different from one another. At least two of the semi-Heusler alloys have at least partly sintered particles that have an average particle size D | 05-08-2014 |
20140287549 | Method and Pre-Product for Producing a Thermoelectric Module - A method for producing a thermoelectric module with a plurality of thermoelectric leg elements, which are electrically connected in series at opposite ends, includes arranging the leg elements on an electrically conducting plate, connecting the leg elements to the electrically conducting plate, and cutting up the electrically conducting plate into a plurality of conductor tracks, which respectively connect two of the leg elements to one another. From a further aspect, a pre-product for the production of a thermoelectric module by such a method includes an electrically conducting plate with a plurality of conductor track regions for the formation of conductor tracks. The electrically conducting plate has a lower mechanical stability in at least one zone of weakness between two conductor track regions than in the conductor track regions. | 09-25-2014 |