Patent ID: 8487177

Claim:
A method for making an integrated thermoelectric honeycomb core, comprising: providing a corrugated core sheet with a first face and a second face, the first and second faces comprising opposing sides of the corrugated core sheet; depositing a negative Seebeck coefficient conductive material with a plurality of first spaced gaps on the first face of the corrugated core sheet; depositing a positive Seebeck coefficient conductive material with a plurality of second spaced gaps on the second face of the corrugated core sheet, wherein the first face gaps on the first face of the corrugated core sheet do not overlap with the second face gaps on the second face of the corrugated core sheet; applying a core adhesive at intervals across a plurality of deposited corrugated core sheets; assembling and bonding the plurality of deposited corrugated core sheets to create an integrated thermoelectric honeycomb core, wherein the first face of each of the plurality of corrugated core sheets faces the second face of each adjacent corrugated core sheet of the plurality of corrugated core sheets to form a honeycomb shape when assembled and the positive Seebeck coefficient conductive material and negative Seebeck coefficient materials alternate on the opposing sides of the plurality of corrugated core sheets; and, electrically connecting deposited negative Seebeck coefficient conductive material to deposited positive Seebeck coefficient conductive material in an alternating pattern along a length of the first and second faces of the integrated thermoelectric honeycomb core, wherein the conductive material is a foil or deposited metallic film layers.