Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle heating apparatus and heater-equipped vehicle seat
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Application No.: US14418821Application Date: 2014-05-22
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Publication No.: US09676309B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Yoshiaki Kurosawa , Takehiko Ise , Atsunori Hashimoto
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-116899 20130603
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/002705 WO 20140522
- International Announcement: WO2014/196141 WO 20141211
- Main IPC: B60N2/56
- IPC: B60N2/56 ; B60H1/00

Abstract:
A vehicle heating apparatus (10a) to be mounted on or built in a vehicle seat (2) at a location below a sitting portion S of the vehicle seat (2) includes a housing (20), a fan (14), and a heater (15). The housing (20) has an intake port (11), a left nozzle (12l), a right nozzle (12r), an air curtain nozzle (12c), and an internal space (13) serving as air flow paths from the intake port (11) to the left nozzle (12l), to the right nozzle (12r), and to the air curtain nozzle (12c). The air curtain nozzle (12c) is located between the left nozzle (12l) and the right nozzle (12r), and is formed so as to, in the usage state, blow air delivered by the fan (14) in a direction inclined upward at an angle of not more than 90° to a direction in which warm wind is blown out of the left nozzle (12l) and the right nozzle (12r).
Public/Granted literature
- US20150210193A1 VEHICLE HEATING APPARATUS AND HEATER-EQUIPPED VEHICLE SEAT Public/Granted day:2015-07-30
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