US 7,532,937 B2
	Artificial inner ear and thermoelectric generator therefor
Yuma Horio, Hamamatsu (Japan); Takahisa Tachibana, Hamamatsu (Japan); Junya Suzuki, Iwata (Japan); and Satoshi Iwasaki, Hamamatsu (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Corporation, Shizuoka-ken (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/340,503.
Claims priority of application No. P2005-022347 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0169314 A1, Aug. 03, 2006
Int. Cl. A61N 1/05 (2006.01); H01L 35/30 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 607—57  [136/205]

12 Claims

1. A thermoelectric generator including a thermoelectric transducer module in which a plurality of thermoelectric elements join between oppositely arranged first and second insulating substrates each having a plurality of electrodes so as to produce electricity in response to a temperature difference occurring between the first and second insulating substrates, said thermoelectric generator characterized in that a heat absorption layer composed of a heat conductive material having deformability in shape adapted to conform with a skin surface of a prescribed part of a human body is attached to one of the first and second insulating substrates.