Heater control apparatus
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsukasa TAKAHASHI, Kenichi MIZUNO
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Abstract
There is provided a heater control apparatus for controlling a heat generation amount of a heater including a heating element which is provided in a seat and which has a positive or negative temperature coefficient of resistance. The heater control apparatus includes a resistance detection unit which detects an electricity amount which corresponds to a resistance value of the heating element, and a control unit which increases or decreases an electric energizing amount supplied to the heating element according to the resistance value obtained by the resistance detection unit.
Claims4
A heater control apparatus for controlling a heat generation amount of a heater including a heating element which is provided in a seat and which has a positive or negative temperature coefficient of resistance, the heater control apparatus comprising:
- a resistance detection unit which detects an electricity amount which corresponds to a resistance value of the heating element;
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- a control unit which increases or decreases an electric energizing amount supplied to the heating element according to the resistance value obtained by the resistance detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.