Temperature compensation warming fabric
AssigneeSunbeam Products, Inc.
InventorsLeonard I. Horey, Armando Alvite, Gabriel S. Kohn
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Abstract
Disclosed is a warming blanket system having a fabric comprising a heating element, a data temperature mechanism configured to provide ambient air temperature data, a user input configured to provide user heat output preference data for a given normal ambient temperature, and a control system configured to input said air temperature and user heat output preference data and adjust heat output to said heating element based upon a deviation of a measured ambient temperature from said normal ambient temperature.
Claims31
A warming fabric, comprising:
- a fabric;
- a heating element associated with the fabric and configured to heat the fabric;
- a data temperature mechanism configured to generate data regarding an ambient temperature of the fabric;
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- a microcomputer configured to set the level of heat output of the heating element based at least partly upon the data generated by the data temperature mechanism without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said fabric itself and without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said heating element.
A control for a warming fabric, comprising:
- a data temperature mechanism configured to generate data regarding an ambient temperature of a warming fabric;
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- a microcomputer configured to set the level of heat output of the warming fabric based at least partly upon the data generated by the data temperature mechanism without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said fabric itself and without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said heating element.
A warming blanket system, comprising:
- a fabric comprising a heating element;
- a data temperature mechanism configured to provide ambient air temperature data;
- a user input configured to provide user heat output preference data for a given normal ambient temperature;
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- a control system configured to input said air temperature and user heat output preference data and adjust heat output to said heating element based upon a deviation of a measured ambient temperature from said normal ambient temperature without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said fabric itself and without resort to a direct temperature measurement of said heating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.