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| 20090252142 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - More than one communication device that is to simultaneously transmit identical data through multiple data transmissions using different radio wave multiplex types is determined based on the link qualities of a plurality of communication devices. Then the multiple data transmissions are made by transmitting the identical data with synchronized timings at the determined communication apparatuses. The link qualities are determined by measuring received signal intensities, bit error rates, or frame error rates at the respective communication devices at the time of the multiple data transmissions using two radio wave multiplex types orthogonal to each other. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20110044315 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control apparatus of a communication system that uses a plurality of communication paths from a transmission node to a reception node to redundantly transmit data is provided. The apparatus comprises: a setting unit for setting priorities to a plurality of partial data; a calculation unit for calculating the time slot number which is required to transmit the partial data on the communication paths; a selection unit for selecting one or more combinations of the partial data and the communication path. The selection unit selects the one or more combinations in descending order of the priorities of the partial data and selects the one or more combinations in ascending order of the required time slot number if the priorities of the partial data are equal. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120106561 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL STATION THEREOF AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A plurality of control stations supervise respective ones of different networks and multiple nodes belonging to each network perform redundant transmission of data. The number of communication paths for which the qualities of communication links between the nodes belonging to the network are greater than a threshold value are calculated as the number of active paths of each of the nodes belonging to each network, and it is determined whether the calculated number of active paths of each node in each network is equal to or greater than a predetermined redundancy. In case of existence of a node for which the number of active paths is less than the predetermined redundancy, then the node is moved between the network in which the node exists and another network. | 05-03-2012 |
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| 20090077194 | Data input terminal, method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof - The input unit stores data input by the user in the data storage. The status determiner determines reception status of the screen data to be one of three statuses of “abnormal”, “normal”, and “recovery” from “abnormal” to “normal” on the basis of frame losses. In a case of the “abnormal” status, a transmission controller does not read the input data stored in the data storage. In a case of the “normal” status, the transmission controller reads the input data stored in the data storage, transmits the input data via the transmitter, and deletes the input data stored in the data storage. In a case of the “recovery” status, the transmission confirmer instructs the output unit to output the input data stored in the data storage to ask the user whether to transmit the input data to the server. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090125903 | Center management apparatus, method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof - A duplicator duplicates a specified guest program to create a guest copy. A virtual machine activation requester selects a center apparatus for maintenance and requests the selected center apparatus for maintenance to activate a virtual machine based on the guest copy. A maintenance requester requests the activated virtual machine to perform a maintenance process. After the maintenance process, when the guest copy has been changed, a maintenance reflector replaces with the guest copy the guest program, among data stored in a guest program storage, associated with a specified program ID. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090244091 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus and method includes generating an image to be displayed by a display section, determining, based on a processing capacity of a terminal connected with the information processing apparatus via a communications network or the information processing apparatus itself, a size of an image to be transmitted to the terminal, dividing an image displayed on a screen into a plurality of segments based on the size determined, adding positional information indicating an on-screen position of a segment divided to segment image information based on an image of a segment; and transmitting the segment image information added with the positional information to the terminal via the communications network. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100009708 | COMMUNICATING SYSTEM, SERVER, COMMUNICATING TERMINAL, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communicating system includes: a plurality of communicating system terminal including a communication unit that transmits and receives audio or video data and a reproducing unit that reproduces the data received by the communication unit; and a server including an administering unit that administers the plurality of communicating terminals as a communication group, an approving unit that approves the transmission of the data by one of the communicating terminals of the communication group, a receiving unit that receives the data transmitted by the one of the communicating terminals, and a transmitting unit that transmits the data received by the receiving unit to the other communicating terminals of the communication group. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100128707 | CALL CONTROL DEVICE, RELAY DEVICE, CALL CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A call control device, which controls call connections between a plurality of terminals, includes a device information storage unit that stores device information on call-connectable terminals; a call request accepting unit that accepts a call request from one terminal to another terminal; a determining unit that determines, when the call request accepting unit accepts a call request, whether the device information on the other terminal is stored in the device information storage unit; a holding unit that holds a call state of the one terminal when the determining unit determines that device information on the other terminal is not stored in the device information storage unit; a state acquiring unit that acquires state information indicating a state of the other terminal; and a holding tone setting unit that sets a holding tone to be transmitted to the one terminal associated with the state information acquired by the state acquiring unit. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20110026433 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SERVER - A server judges whether a withdrawn terminal is included in a first communication group, wherein the withdrawn terminal is a terminal which is provided with sending permission in a second communication group and not provided with sending permission in the first communication group. The server sends a notice of withdrawal of the withdrawn terminal from the second communication group, when judged that the withdrawn terminal is included in the first communication group. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110258339 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus for generating a plurality of images to be displayed on a display unit of a terminal device connected via a network and transmitting the plurality of images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory for storing the plurality of images; a first transmission unit for transmitting the plurality of images to the terminal device, an area determination unit for determining an area in which change between frames of the plurality of images exceeds a threshold value, a second transmission unit for compressing the determined area at a frame rate higher than that of the first transmission unit and transmitting the area to the terminal device, and a management unit for managing synchronization between an image transmitted by the first transmission unit and an image transmitted by the second transmission unit, generating drawing timing of each image. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110276653 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An information processing device includes a communication unit configured to connect to a network; a memory configured to hold an image indicating an execution result of a virtual machine; and a processor configured to execute processing, wherein the processor compresses, on the basis of first compression processing, an image in a region in which there is the change and transmits the compressed image to a terminal device connected through the network, discriminates a frequently changed region, halts the first compression processing and the transmission processing, with respect to the discriminated frequently changed region, performs second compression processing, in which the compression ratio of a temporally continuous image is higher than that of the first compression processing, on an image in the discriminated frequently changed region, and transmits the image compressed on the basis of the second compression processing to the terminal device. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120002715 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that generates images for displaying a computer execution result on a display unit of a terminal device connected through a network and that transmits the images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory that holds the images; a first transmitting unit that transmits the images, a detecting unit that detects an area obtained by updating accumulated changes between frames of the images or a frequency of changes between frames of the images, and a second transmitting unit that compresses the images by a compression method and that transmits the compressed images, when the area or the frequency detected by the detecting unit is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the compression method being different from a compression method for the first transmitting unit. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20080284007 | Semiconductor module and method for manufacturing semiconductor module - A semiconductor module includes a first metal foil; an insulating sheet mounted on a top surface of the first metal foil; at least one second metal foil mounted on a top surface of the insulating sheet; at least one semiconductor device mounted on the second metal foil; and a resin case for surrounding the first metal foil, insulating sheet, second metal foil, and semiconductor device. A bottom end of a peripheral wall of the resin case is located above a bottom surface of the first metal foil. A resin is provided inside the resin case to fill the inside of the resin case. The bottom surface of the first metal foil and the resin form a flat bottom surface so that the flat bottom surface contacts an external mounting member. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080284033 | Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device - A semiconductor device includes a first metal foil, an insulating sheet mounted on an upper surface of the first metal foil main, at least one second metal foil mounted on the insulating sheet, at least one solder layer mounted on the at least one second metal foil, and at least one semiconductor element mounted on the at least one second metal foil through the at least one solder layer. The at least one semiconductor has a thickness of 50 μm or greater and less than 100 μm. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20110059581 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor module - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor module, includes the steps of preparing a board; mounting a semiconductor device on the second metal foil; placing a resin case onto the board for surrounding a first metal foil, an insulating sheet, the second metal foil, and the semiconductor device; pouring a resin in a paste form into the case to fill a space relative to the first metal foil, insulating sheet, the second metal foil and the semiconductor device; and heat-curing the resin. A bottom end of a peripheral wall of the case is located above a bottom surface of the first metal. The bottom surface of the first metal foil and the resin form a flat bottom surface to contact an external mounting member. | 03-10-2011 |
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| 20080225412 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body in a box form opened in an upper surface thereof; a lid member attached to the upper surface of the lens barrel body; three fixing units that fix the lid member and the lens barrel body; and at least one engaging unit that engages the lid member with the lens barrel body so as to prevent the lid member from separating from the lens barrel body. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225413 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: at least two lenses; and a lens frame holding the at least two lenses. The lens frame includes a first lens frame holding one of the at least two lenses and a second lens frame holding another of the at least two lenses, and the first lens frame and the second lens frame are attached in a line contact in circumferential directions thereof. The first lens frame and the second lens frame are bonded after an optical adjustment of the at least two lenses by relatively swinging the first lens framed and the second lens frame with respect to the line contact. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080225414 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body; a lens frame swingably attached to the lens barrel body; and a swing mechanism being adapted to swing the lens frame so that alignment of an optical axis of the lens device can be effected, the swing mechanism including: an elastic unit interposed between the lens barrel body and the lens frame, the elastic unit biasing the lens barrel body and the lens frame in directions away from each other or in directions nearing to each other; and an advancing and retracting unit disposed at three points in a circumferential direction defined by the lens barrel body and the lens frame, the advancing and retracting unit advancing or retracting the lens frame relative to the lens barrel body against a bias force of the elastic unit to swing the lens frame. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080226275 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: a vibration-proof lens; a movable lens disposed adjacent to the vibration-proof lens and moving in a direction of an imaging optical axis of the lens device; and a plate-like motor coil disposed around an outer periphery of the vibration-proof lens and driving the vibration-proof lens, the movable lens being located in a retracted position on the imaging optical axis relative to the plate-like motor coil when the movable lens moves closest to the plate like motor coil. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090091830 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: a housing having a first fixed axis in a transverse direction and a second fixed axis in a longitudinal direction; a first slider supported so as to be slidable along the first fixed axis; a second slider supported so as to be slidable along the second fixed axis; a first movement bar fixed to the first slider in the longitudinal direction; a second movement bar fixed to the second slider in the transverse direction; and a lens holding frame supported so as to be slidable along the first movement bar and the second movement bar. The lens holding frame has two recessed engagement sections open in two different directions, and one of the first and second movement axes is inserted into and engaged with the two recessed engagement sections. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090091831 | LENS DEVICE - A lens device is provided and includes: a housing having a first fixed axis fixed in a transverse direction and a second fixed axis fixed in a longitudinal direction; a first slider supported so as to be slidable along the first fixed axis; a second slider supported so as to be slidable along the second fixed axis; a first movement bar fixed to the first slider in the longitudinal direction; a second movement bar fixed to the second slider in the transverse direction; a lens holding frame supported so as to be slidable along the first movement bar and the second movement bar; and a guide bar fixed to the housing in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. One of the first and second sliders has an engagement section engaged with the guide bar so as to be regulated in the optical axis direction. | 04-09-2009 |
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| 20100109021 | REFLECTION -TYPE PHOTOINTERRUPTER - A reflection-type photointerrupter of the present invention includes a substrate, a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a first and a second recesses that are open in the first surface side. The light emitting element is arranged in the first recess, while the light receiving element is arranged in the second recess. The light emitting element is capable of emitting light. The light receiving element is capable of receiving the light emitted from the light emitting element and reflected by an object to be detected. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110062473 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a wire connected to the light emitting element, and a substrate supporting the light emitting element. The substrate is formed with a first recess and a second recess that are open in a common surface of the substrate. The first recess includes a first bottom surface and a first side surface connected to the first bottom surface, and the light emitting element is disposed on the first bottom surface. The second recess includes a second bottom surface and a second side surface connected to the second bottom surface, and the wire is bonded to the second bottom surface. Both of the first side surface and the second side surface reach the common surface. The first side surface is connected to both of the second bottom surface and the second side surface. The opening area of the first recess is larger than the opening area of the second recess. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110299138 | LINEAR LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - A linear light source device illuminates a document properly, and an image reading device includes such a light source device. The light source device includes a light source and a light-guiding member. The light-guiding member introduces the light emitted from the light source from one end portion in x-direction, cause the light to travel in x-direction, and emits the light from a light exit portion at one end in z-direction, which is orthogonal to x-direction. The light-guiding member includes, at the other end in z-direction, a light-reflecting portion that reflects light to the light exit portion. One end face of the light-guiding member in y-direction, which is orthogonal to x- and z-directions, is inclined so as to become closer to the other end face in y-direction with decreasing distance from the light exit portion in z-direction. This allows light to easily travel to the light-reflecting portion. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120057099 | LED LIGHT SOURCE UNIT FOR BACKLIGHT OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An LED light source unit for a backlight of a liquid crystal display is provided. The light source unit includes a plurality of LED chips, an insulating substrate, and a metal film covering a principal surface of the substrate. The LED chips are mounted on the metal film. With this arrangement, brightness of the light source unit is enhanced. | 03-08-2012 |
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| 20080315215 | Semiconductor Module - A semiconductor module (A | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090039377 | Optical Communication Module and Manufacturing Method Thereof - An infrared data communication module (A | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100101103 | TILT SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A tilt sensor includes a light emitting element and two light receiving elements accommodated in a case. The case is formed with an inner space in which a rolling member is provided in a freely movable manner by the pulling force of gravity. A cover plate is fixed to the case to close the inner space. The cover plate is provided with an irregular, inner ceiling surface that is exposed to the inner surface so as to come into sliding contact with the rolling member. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100188654 | TILT SENSOR - A tilt sensor capable of detecting more diverse orientations is to be provided. The tilt sensor includes a light emitting element and a plurality of photodetectors, a rolling element, and a hollow portion that accommodates the rolling element so as to allow the rolling element to roll in all of x-, y-, and z-direction, and to locate the rolling element, according to a direction of the gravity, at one of detecting positions including a complete blocking position that inhibits light from the light emitting element from reaching any of the photodetectors, a plurality of partial blocking positions that inhibits the light from the light emitting element from reaching at least one but not all of the photodetectors, and a nonblocking position that permits the light from the light emitting element to reach all of the photodetectors, and two of the detecting positions are each located on a respective end portion of the hollow portion in the x-, y-, and z-direction. | 07-29-2010 |
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| 20110012460 | PERMANENT MAGNET FOR MOTOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE PERMANENT MAGNET FOR MOTOR - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet for a motor, to be buried in a permanent magnet motor, including: a plurality of sheet magnets for lamination, and an insulating layer arranged between the plurality of sheet magnets for lamination. Since the invention has the above-mentioned constitution, the permanent magnets are free from the problems of temperature elevation and coercive force depression, therefore making it possible to provide a high-power small-sized motor. Furthermore, it is unnecessary to perform the conventional correcting processing after sintering, which can simplify the production steps, and therefore, it becomes possible to mold the permanent magnet with a high degree of dimension accuracy. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110012700 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet obtained by sintering a green sheet which is produced by mixing a magnet raw material with a resin binder and molding the resulting mixture, and a method for producing the same. Since the present invention has such a constitution, the contraction due to sintering becomes uniform, whereby the deformations such as warpage and depressions do not occur after sintering. Further, it is unnecessary to perform the conventional correcting processing after sintering, which can simplify the production steps, because the pressure unevenness at the time of pressing disappears. Therefore, it becomes possible to mold the permanent magnet with a high degree of dimension accuracy. Furthermore, even when the permanent magnet is reduced in film thickness, the magnetic characteristics are not deteriorated by the processing-deteriorated layer on the surface. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110018664 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet obtained by wet-mixing a Dy compound or a Tb compound with a magnet raw material to coat a surface of the magnet raw material with the Dy compound or the Tb compound, and sintering a green sheet obtained by mixing the resulting magnet raw material with a resin binder and molding the resulting mixture. Since the present invention has the above-mentioned constitution, it becomes possible to sufficiently improve coercive force by Dy or Tb while decreasing the amount of Dy or Tb used. Further, it can be prevented that Dy or Tb is solid-solutionized in magnet particles to decrease residual magnetization. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110037548 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PERMANENT MAGNET - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet manufactured by steps of: wet-pulverizing a high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or a precursor of a high-melting ceramic in a solvent together with a magnet raw material to pulverize the magnet raw material into fine particles having a grain size of 3 μm or less and to coat a surface of the pulverized magnet raw material with the high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or the precursor of the high-melting ceramic; adding a resin binder to the magnet raw material coated with the high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or the precursor of the high-melting ceramic; producing a slurry by kneading the magnet raw material and the resin binder; molding the slurry into a sheet form to prepare a green sheet; and sintering the green sheet. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110043311 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PERMANENT MAGNET - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet manufactured by steps of: pulverizing a magnet raw material; mixing the pulverized magnet raw material with a rust preventive oil in which a Dy compound or a Tb compound is dissolved, thereby preparing a slurry; compression molding the slurry to form a molded body; and sintering the molded body. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110267160 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PERMANENT MAGNET - The present invention relates to a permanent magnet manufactured by steps of: pulverizing a magnet raw material into fine particles having a grain size of 3 μm or less; mixing the pulverized magnet raw material with a rust preventive oil in which a high-melting metal element-containing organic compound or a precursor of a high-melting ceramic is dissolved, thereby preparing a slurry; compression molding the slurry to form a molded body; and sintering the molded body. | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20090312219 | Cleaning Composition - The present invention relates to a cleaning agent composition for use in cleaning a substrate for recording media, a substrate for photomask, or a substrate for flat panel display, a surface of which at least contains a metallic or glassy substrate moiety, the cleaning agent composition containing (I) a copolymer compound satisfying at least the following (i) to (iii): (i) a constituting unit A1 derived from acrylic acid is contained in an amount of 20% by mol or more of the entire constituting units; (ii) the constituting unit A1 derived from acrylic acid and a constituting A2 derived from 2-acrylamide-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid are contained in a total amount of 90% by mol or more of the entire constituting units; and (iii) the constituting unit A1 and the constituting unit A2 of the entire constituting units are in a content ratio [constituting unit A1 (% by mol)/constituting unit A2 (% by mol)] of from 91/9 to 95/5. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100221417 | AQUEOUS CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR SUBSTRATE FOR PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING HARD DISK - An aqueous cleaning composition for a substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk including a Ni—P containing layer contains at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of surfactants represented by Formulas (1) to (6) and has a pH at 25° C. of 5 or less. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100255410 | ALKALI-TYPE NONIONIC SURFACTANT COMPOSITION - An alkali-type nonionic surfactant composition contains a nonionic surfactant (component A), water (component B), at least one compound (component C) selected from the group consisting of benzenesulfonic acid, toluenesulfonic acid, dimethylbenzenesulfonic acid, hydroxybenzenesulfonic acid and salts thereof, and at least one alkaline chemical (component D) selected from the group consisting of potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide. The alkali-type nonionic surfactant composition contains the nonionic surfactant (component A) in an amount of 0.5 to 20 wt % and has a pH at 25° C. of 12 or greater. | 10-07-2010 |
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| 20090084423 | THERMOELECTRIC MODULE SUBSTRATE AND THERMOELECTRIC MODULE USING SUCH BOARD - To obtain a thermoelectric module substrate of which reliability such as stress relaxation is improved without damaging the performance as a thermoelectric module such as heat conductivity to provide a thermoelectric module excellent in reliability by using such a substrate. Thermoelectric module substrates of the present invention each comprises a synthetic resin layer including fillers having good thermal conductivity; and a copper-metalized layer or layers, or a copper layer at least including copper plate or copper layers which is or are formed on one face or both faces of the synthetic resin layer. Further, in the case where contents volume percentage of fillers within the synthetic resin layer is expressed as A (%), the thickness of the synthetic resin layer is expressed as B (μm) and the total thickness of the copper layer is expressed as C (μm), the thermoelectric module substrate is formed so as to have the relation expressed as (C/4)−B≦65, A/B≦3.5, A>0, C>50 and B≧7. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090236087 | HEAT EXCHANGE DEVICE - A heat exchange device includes a heat exchanger disposed in connection with at least one of a heat-dissipation electrode and a heat-absorption electrode, between which a plurality of thermoelectric elements is connected in series, via an insulating resin layer, which is composed of an epoxy resin or polyimide resin doped with fillers having high thermal conductivity, without intervention of a substrate. The heat exchanger corresponds to a plurality of corrugated fins which are constituted of a plurality of joint regions joining with one of the heat-dissipation electrode and heat-absorption electrode and a plurality of non-joint regions projecting externally from a plurality of gaps formed between the joint regions adjacently aligned together, wherein the joint regions and non-joint regions are alternately aligned. Thus, it is possible to achieve high reliability by reducing thermal resistance and thermal stress while increasing the maximum heat absorption coefficient (Qmax). | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100186424 | HEAT EXCHANGE UNIT - A heat exchange unit is constituted of a thermoelectric module and a heat exchanger. The thermoelectric module includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and a plurality of thermoelectric elements interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, wherein the heat exchanger composed of aluminum or aluminum alloy having high thermal conductivity is attached to the upper electrode and/or the lower electrode via an insulating layer. The surface roughness of the heat exchanger adjoined to the insulating layer is controlled to be less than 4.7 μm and greater than 0.1 μm. This prevents cracks and fractures from being formed in the insulating layer, which is thus improved in adhesion with the heat exchanger. Thus, it is possible to demonstrate high heat-absorption/dissipation performance and high reliability in the heat exchange unit due to a reduced thermal resistance between the thermoelectric module and the heat exchanger. | 07-29-2010 |
