Patent ID: 7360365

Claim:
A thermoelectric heat pump ( 10 ) comprising one or more thermoelectric modules ( 11 ) having a hot side connected to a first heat exchanger ( 12 ) and a cold side connected to a second heat exchanger ( 13 ), characterised in that it comprises a pair of elongated bar-like elements ( 14 , 15 ) made of an electrically and thermally insulating material which are arranged at two parallel sides of the heat exchangers ( 12 , 13 ), at least partly interposed between facing flanges of said heat exchangers, at least one of said elongated bar-like elements ( 14 , 15 ) including electric conductors for supplying power to the thermoelectric modules ( 11 ), as well as conductors for supplying control signals therefor, and that said heat exchangers ( 12 , 13 ) contacting the thermoelectric modules ( 11 ) are linked one another via a plurality of fasteners ( 16 ), each fastener being formed of a substantially C-shaped metal clip and being apt to grip with both ends ( 16 ′, 16 ″) thereof the facing flanges of the heat exchangers ( 12 , 13 ) in order to hold them together, at least one ( 16 ″) of said ends of the fastener ( 16 ) gripping a corresponding flange of a heat exchanger ( 12 , 13 ) indirectly with the interposition of a transverse extension ( 17 ) of the elongated bar-like elements ( 14 , 15 ) so as to break the thermal bridge which otherwise would be formed between one heat exchanger and the other.