Method for controlling the temperature of a heating surface of a heating panel and corresponding control device
AssigneeValeo Systemes Thermiques
InventorsGeorges De Pelsemaeker, Mohamed-Amine Boubaker
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Abstract
A method (7) for controlling the temperature of a heating surface (5) of a heating panel (1) suitable for being installed inside a passenger compartment of a vehicle, for example a motor vehicle, this surface (5) being likely to be touched by a passenger in said passenger compartment, the method (7) involving controlling the temperature of said heating surface (5) as a function of at least one item of data representative of the profile of a passenger accommodated in the passenger compartment and/or at least one item of data representative of the heating surface (5) of the heating panel (1). The invention also relates to a corresponding control device (15).
Claims9
A method for controlling a temperature of a heating surface of a heating panel being installed inside a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the surface being likely to be touched by a passenger in the passenger compartment, the method comprising:
- controlling the temperature of the heating surface as a function of at least one item of data representative of the profile of the passenger accommodated in the passenger compartment or at least one item of data representative of the heating surface of the heating panel;
- and
- calculating a dry bulb temperature of the heating surface, as a maximum permissible temperature of the heating surface,
- wherein the dry bulb temperature is calculated based on a determined maximum temperature tolerated by the passenger and on the at least one item of data representative of the heating surface,
- the item of data representative of the heating surface of the heating panel being an effusivity of material forming the heating surface, and
- the effusivity of the material being corrected by a factor taking into account a surface finish of the material, the factor being selected from:
- roughness, porosity, irregularity, and continuity.
A method for controlling a temperature of a heating surface of a heating panel being installed inside a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the surface being likely to be touched by a passenger in the passenger compartment, the method comprising:
- controlling the temperature of the heating surface as a function of at least one item of data representative of the profile of the passenger accommodated in the passenger compartment or at least one item of data representative of the heating surface of the heating panel;
- calculating a dry bulb temperature of the heating surface, as a maximum permissible temperature of the heating surface,
- wherein the dry bulb temperature is calculated based on a determined maximum temperature tolerated by the passenger and on the at least one item of data representative of the heating surface;
- and
- correcting the dry bulb temperature via applying a correction coefficient to the dry bulb temperature to obtain a corrected dry bulb temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.