ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,663, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Thermoelectric conversion element" was invented by Masahiko Ishida (Tokyo), Yasutomo Omori (Tokyo), Akihiro Kirihara (Tokyo) and Hiroko Someya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a thermoelectric conversion element having a high Anomalous Nernst Effect at a lower cost. A thermoelectric conversion element (1) includes a magnetic alloy material containing aluminum, cobalt, and samarium, and a power generation layer (10), in which in the power generation layer (10), a content of aluminum in the magnetic alloy material is in a range of 1 atomic percent to 40 atomic...