US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element, and thermoelectric conversion module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,163, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element, and thermoelectric conversion module" was invented by Kotaro Hirose (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Adachi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermoelectric conversion material includes, a base material composed of SiGe, a first additive element functioning as a dopant, a second additive element different from the first additive element, and oxygen. The second additive element includes at least one of Mg, Ca, and Ti. A content ratio of the second additive element r...