Heating system for a vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorArmin Litz
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Abstract
A heating system for a vehicle is provided. In order to permit provision of efficient heating of a vehicle window pane of an electric vehicle, the system has two at least mainly transparent panes, wherein an outer pane is arranged on the outside of the vehicle and an inner pane is arranged on the inside of the outer pane to form an intermediate space, and at least one controllable infrared source is configured to irradiate infrared radiation into the intermediate space so that the infrared radiation at least partially irradiates the outer pane.
Claims19
A heating system for a vehicle comprising:
- an outer mainly transparent pane arranged on an outside of the vehicle;
- an inner mainly transparent pane arranged on an inside of the vehicle inwards of the outer pane and spaced from the outer pane to form an intermediate space that is air-filled;
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- at least one controllable infrared source configured to irradiate infrared radiation into the intermediate space so that the infrared radiation at least partially irradiates the outer pane.
A heating system for a vehicle comprising:
- an outer mainly transparent pane arranged on an outside of the vehicle, wherein the outer panel is a windshield;
- an inner mainly transparent pane arranged on an inside of the vehicle inwards of the outer pane and spaced from the outer pane to form an intermediate space that is air-filled;
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- at least one controllable infrared source configured to irradiate infrared radiation into the intermediate space so that the infrared radiation at least partially irradiates the outer pane, the at least one infrared source is configured to irradiate infrared radiation into the intermediate space so that the infrared radiation at least partially irradiates the inner pane, wherein the heating system is configured such that at least part of the infrared radiation is reflected from at least one of the outer and inner panes to the other of the outer and inner panes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.