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US 10,538,868 B2Granted
Seat heater and method of its fabrication
AssigneeIGB Automotive Ltd.
InventorGoran Bajic
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Abstract
A seat heater includes a substrate. A formed heating wire is disposed on the substrate. A sewing thread attaches the formed heating wire to the substrate. A method of fabricating the seat heater includes forming a straight heating wire into a formed heating wire having miniature wave shape, feeding the formed heating wire onto a substrate, and attaching the formed heating wire onto the substrate by sewing a thread.
Claims15
A seat heater comprising:
- a substrate;
- a formed heating wire including a wave shape disposed on the substrate;
- and
- a sewing thread attaching the formed heating wire to the substrate, wherein the thread is sewn in gaps between half-periods of the wave shape of the formed heating wire.
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A method of fabricating a seat heater, the method comprising the steps of:
- forming a straight heating wire into a formed heating wire including a wave shape;
- feeding the formed heating wire onto a substrate;
- and
- attaching the formed heating wire onto the substrate by sewing a thread, wherein the thread is sewn in gaps between half-periods of the wave shape of the formed heating wire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.