Film heater
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTakahito Nakamura, Taro Ogura
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Abstract
A film heater has a transparent conductive portion including: at least one non-conductive portion that has electrical insulation properties and extends in a direction intersecting a vibration direction of an electric field included in a radio wave transmitted from a radio wave transmitter-receiver; and a heat generator that generates heat by being energized and that transmits light. The film heater has: a first electrode connected to the heat generator; and a second electrode connected to the heat generator. The heat generator includes at least one conductive portion that is adjacent to the non-conductive portion and generates heat by a current flowing along a direction in which the non-conductive portion extends when the heat generator is energized by the first electrode and the second electrode.
Claims7
A film heater comprising:
- a transparent conductive portion including:
- at least one non-conductive portion that has electrical insulation properties and extends in a direction intersecting a vibration direction of an electric field included in a radio wave transmitted from a radio wave transmitter-receiver;
- and
- a heat generator that generates heat by being energized and that transmits light;
- a first electrode connected to the heat generator;
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- a second electrode connected to the heat generator, wherein
- the heat generator includes at least one conductive portion that is adjacent to the non-conductive portion and generates heat by a current flowing along a direction in which the non-conductive portion extends when the heat generator is energized by the first electrode and the second electrode, and
- the first electrode is disposed outside the heat generator with respect to the second electrode and surrounds the second electrode, the film heater further comprising:
- an inter-electrode non-conductive portion having electrical insulation properties and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.