ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CHARGING BATTERY

• Main Authors: MURAOKA YOSHIO, KANO SHIGEAKI, SUZUKI KAZUHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.04.2010
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic apparatus that can generate electromotive force by a simpler mechanism, and to provide a method of controlling electrical accumulation for storing a voltage generated by the electromotive force. SOLUTION: Electromotive force can be generated, by using an unavoidable temperature difference, between a heat source provided in a first housing and a second housing. In other words, since there is no need for installing a cooling member, such as a heat pipe, a heat diffusion member, in order to generate a temperature difference, the number of components can be reduced. Furthermore, since a thermoelectric conversion mechanism is a power regeneration system, it is not necessary to control the application of a voltage for driving the thermoelectric conversion mechanism, and reduction in the power consumption of electronic equipment itself can also be realized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT