CN102218995B - Multifunction product applied in an area to have temperature adjusted and ventilate - Google Patents

Multifunction product applied in an area to have temperature adjusted and ventilate Download PDF

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CN102218995B
CN102218995B CN201110087961.7A CN201110087961A CN102218995B CN 102218995 B CN102218995 B CN 102218995B CN 201110087961 A CN201110087961 A CN 201110087961A CN 102218995 B CN102218995 B CN 102218995B
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H-G·劳
R·多恩
M·祖兹加
S·伊克巴勒
I·斯帕索耶维奇
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The present invention relates to a multifunction product (1) for providing at least two functions in a functional zone. It is provided that the multifunction product (1) has at least two different types of a functional device from the following group: A temperature control (110), a cooling device, a heater unit (100), an air-conditioning unit, a ventilation unit, and an electrical circuit.

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For the product of multiple functions is provided in the region for the treatment of temperature adjustment or ventilation
Technical field
Theme of the present invention is the multifunctional product at least two functions are provided functional areas.
Background technology
Disclose a kind of chair heating device by US7500536, it is provided with the pressure sensor for identifying passenger.Be worth expecting further this system of optimization aspect functional and manufacturing cost at it.
Summary of the invention
According to the present invention, a kind of multifunctional product has been proposed, for providing at least two functions functional areas, it is characterized in that, described multifunctional product has at least two dissimilar functional devices that are selected from following group: register, fridge equipment, heating arrangement, climate regulation device, drafting apparatus and circuit.Described multifunctional product comprises the heating arrangement with at least one load member, at least one electro heat resistance is set on this load member, described multifunctional product has the detecting device of measuring parameter for detection of at least one, the value of described measurement parameter exists relevant with near the personnel this detecting device, at least one functional device is provided with at least one electric tape conductor, described electric tape conductor is arranged on load member as coating, and described electric tape conductor is PTC or the ag material being printed on described load member.This allow functional element in a structural constituent compact, can combination simple operations and coordinated with each other.
Advantageously, described multifunctional product constituting by two or more functional devices substantially.This allows simple modular organization in the situation that expending without great additional materials.
Advantageously, described multifunctional product comprises the heating arrangement with at least one load member, and at least one electro heat resistance is set on this load member.This allows the electro heat of functional areas.
Advantageously, described multifunctional product has the detecting device of measuring parameter for detection of at least one, and the value of described measurement parameter exists relevant with near the personnel this detecting device.This allows to determine personnel's existence, attitude, position, weight, size and/or identity.
Advantageously at least one functional device is provided with at least one electric tape conductor, and described electric tape conductor is arranged on load member as coating.This allows cost advantageously and simply to supply induced current.
Advantageously, described multifunctional product comprises having the heating arrangement of at least one energy conductive filament fine workmanship part as heating resistor, described multifunctional product comprises that at least one has the detecting device of at least one tape conductor, and at least one in described parts filament fine workmanship's part or ribbon conductor extended and arranged between filament fine workmanship part and tape conductor along load member setting and described load member.Filament fine workmanship part and tape conductor the load member electric conductor that arranging on homonymy do not allow these two devices without electrical isolation in the situation that reliably each other electricity separately, even when replying virial by cable and should make the position of described filament fine workmanship part while moving.
Advantageously, at least one detecting device uses at least one tape conductor that is used as heating resistor as measuring value sensor at least in part.This allows the saving of material.
Advantageously, described detecting device is subject to have in section at least one first measurement point and at stand under load not second at machinery and has at least one second measurement point.Even if this also allows self-inspection and the self-correcting thereof of detecting device in the time that application conditions changes greatly.
The present invention is particularly suitable for object for all cushionings, and particularly liner element, couch or for example office furniture of vehicle seat, armrest, passenger carriage heat, detect and use.
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Details of the present invention is described below.These embodiments can make the present invention easily understand.But these embodiments only have example feature.Self-evident, within the scope of the invention defining by independent claims, also can delete, change or supplement single or multiple described features.Self-evident, the feature of different embodiments also can combine mutually.Importantly, the solution of the present invention is converted substantially.If meet at least in part a feature, this comprises also and to meet or substantially to meet completely this feature completely." substantially " especially mean at this, described conversion allows to realize with obvious degree the utilization of expecting.This especially can mean, at least 50%, 90%, 95% or 99% ground meets a corresponding feature.Self-evident, if provide a minimum, also can use the amount more than this minimum.In the time that the quantity of member provides with at least one, this particularly also comprises the embodiment with two, three or other quantity members.Also can be applied to the most of or overall of every other similar object for the description of an object.If do not provide other situation, interval comprises its boundary point.
Relate to below:
Fig. 1 illustrates the part longitudinal section of the self-propelled vehicle with multifunctional product 1,
Fig. 2 illustrates the multifunctional product 1 in Fig. 1 with birds-eye view enlargedly,
The cross sectional drawing of the first embodiment of the detecting device of the multifunctional product 1 in Fig. 3 Fig. 2,
The cross sectional drawing of the second embodiment of the detecting device of the multifunctional product 1 in Fig. 4 Fig. 2.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 illustrates the vehicle 150.The described vehicle are for example aircraft, guideway vehicle, boats and ships or are self-propelled vehicle as shown here at this.
The vehicle 150 have the object 200 of at least one weather to be regulated.This be can be regarded as to all members that the user in main cabin can be in contact with it, steering hardware, gauge panel, handrail, door lining, seat cushions, heated ceiling, vehicle ceiling, back cushion 5, the lining 400 of for example vehicle or be seat 300 as shown here.
The object 200 of weather to be regulated preferably has at least one back cushion 8 and/or at least one lining 400.
The object 200 of weather to be regulated and/or the vehicle 1000 have at least one multifunctional product 1.This multifunctional product is the product for meeting at least two functions.Particularly relate to the combination of heating arrangement 100 and detecting device 300 this its, especially for testing staff's existence or position.Described product also can have air guiding device 120, cooling mechanism, humidity measuring instrument, Magnetotherapeutic apparatus and/or other additional functions.
Preferably on-board components of described multifunctional product 1, it is bidimensional ground or planar the single or multiple lift module that is for example configured to substantially preferably.Preferably be arranged on functional areas treat temperature adjustment, to be monitored or apply the region of other functional areas upper and lower or in.
It preferably consists of functional unit substantially, may pass through load member, capsule device and/or holding device and supplement.
The object 200 of weather to be regulated or multifunctional product 1 preferably have at least one climate regulation device 140.This climate regulation device is for for example heating of the face that contacts with user in vehicle occupant compartment, cooling, ventilation and/or dehumidify.
Described climate regulation device 140 has at least one register 110 and/or at least one air guiding device 120.Can be regarded as any device that is used to change targetedly the temperature in its surrounding environment for register 110, for example any have at least one electro heat resistance 4, peltier-element and/or air movement device as fan or the equipment being substantially made up of above-mentioned member.Can be regarded as and be anyly used to change targetedly air in certain surface region or area of space composition or Air Flow to carry out the device of air inerchange for air guiding device, for example vehicle air conditioner equipment, ventilative blank medium, space fabric and/or climate regulation insert at least in part.
Preferably at least one climate regulation device 140 has at least one register 110, and it is for example configured to planar, flexible, the heater element of fabric or film-form substantially according to Fig. 2.Fabric is the face formation being made up of line or fiber.Register 110 can for example be integrated into interior trim object as in the mat of seat 300 as built-in part.
At least one multifunctional product 1 has at least one load member 9.Described load member is any for by functional component location, directed and/or remain on the device of its application site at this.Load member can be by one but also can be formed by multiple parts, for example by one or more can be all sidedly, wire ground or point-like ground layer connected to one another forms.Load member can be for example the component part of object 200 register 110 and/or at least one weather to be regulated at this.The preferred planar ground of this load member and at least in part by textile, knitting, knotwork, knitted fabric, nonwoven fabrics, flexible thermoplastic plastic, gas permeable material and/film sealing, punching or knotting forms.But described load member also can consist of the object 200 of for example weather to be regulated of object or its surperficial at least a portion for the treatment of temperature adjustment.Load member 9 is preferably breathed freely, for example, by making it ventilative with breather hole punching.
Preferably at least one load member 9 is at least in part by polyester, be particularly made up of mylar.Preferably load member 9 or polyester have temperature stability, that is to say, for conventionally heating the temperature-insensitive of emerged in operation (for example, by chemistry and/or hot pretreatment).Particularly the length of described load member 9 changes at most 0.1% of its total length in the range of temperatures of-20 DEG C to 100 DEG C.
Register 110 has particularly at least one heating resistor 4, described heating resistor be arranged on load member 9 other, upper and/or in.Multiple heating resistors 4 that preferably electricity arranges in parallel each other are preferably set.At least one heating resistor 4 fixing on load member 9 for example realized by lining cement partly or all sidedly.
Particularly preferably be, at least one heating resistor 4 produces by conductive resistance layer being applied be for example printed onto on the load member 9 of being made up of film as tape conductor.Preferably at least one heating resistor 4 has ptc characteristics (positive temperature coefficient), to simplify regulating control or the monitoring temperature of heating arrangement 100 or make it unnecessary.
But, the heating resistor 4 that at least one does not have ptc characteristics also can be set.At least one heating resistor 4 is preferably manufactured in the case of adopting the poly-mer cream of graphitiferous.
Register 110 has preferably at least one electrode 5, to electric current is supplied to at least one heating resistor 4.At this, two electrodes 5,5' are set, they keep to the side along load member 9 and each interval distance extend.They have pointed tooth portion 50,50' at this, thereby two electrodes 5,5' pectination are formed and inserted into each other being positioned on load member 9 without electrically contact in the situation that each other.Described electrode 5,5 ' at least one there is at least one electric conductor, described electric conductor is preferably at least in part by copper or other metals, be made up of film, metal fibre metal or metal ground coating or the plastic optical fibre with metallic coating.Electrode 5,5' can be by one or more contact thighs that can conduct electricity at least in part and/or the textile configuration example that can conduct electricity as being made up of knitted fabric, knitting, knotwork and/or nonwoven fabrics.On the load member 9 that preferred described electrode is configured to be made up of film as tape conductor, for example, for example, by printing conductive cream (thering is silver or other metallic particles).
Only the heated resistance 4 of the part of to be heated covers in some embodiments.Also cause the gap in heated face by electrode 5,5'.Therefore meet object require can be, heating arrangement 100 has at least one hot derived layer, described hot derived layer is for example arranged on register 100 tops and be arranged in parallel with register, to distribute fast and equably the heat being produced by heating resistor 4.This layer can be for example made of aluminum at least in part.
The object 200 of weather to be regulated or multifunctional product 1 are provided with at least one detecting device 30, and this detecting device is for identifying the personnel on seat.This its can be only for detection of user's existence or for detection of the correspondence (baby seat, children, adult) of specific people's type and/or try to achieve its characteristic as personnel or article.
Detecting device 30 has at least one sensor 35, so that testing staff's existence, personnel's position, size, weight, attitude and the other associated parameter of possibility.
Described sensor 35 can detect electric weight, electric weight change, resistance 4 and/or resistance and change, and they are occurred or affected by personnel's existence and type; For example its mode is, thereby human body works as the dielectric between two capacitor films that are arranged on seat 300 and changes the electric weight of the cond forming by capacitor film.Or its mode is, thereby personnel's weight causes the machinery that is arranged on the strain-gauge on load member 9 extend and cause resistance to raise.Or its mode is, thereby personnel's quality causes temperature change or heat to isolate and cause the hot-fluid changing.
But also can consider other detection principle, for example optical identification, for example, by fibre-optic being obscured in chair top.
Preferably personnel's result of a measurement is for user is carried out to identification or classification, to determine accordingly specific operational mode or specific operational factor.This can be for example the automatic operation (for example seat heating) of the selecting of personnel's climatic curve, system or the shutoff at the situation lower gasbag of identification child seat.Described identification for example can be undertaken by the temperature traverse on the weight distribution on predetermined value, chair top for personnel's weight, temperature conduction value, chair top etc.
So can turn on and off at least one heating arrangement 100, at least one interior environment system, at least one fan and/or at least one massage machine by means of described result of a measurement.Described result of a measurement also can be used to activate the position that head supports or coupling head supports, or for preparing adjusting forward the rear-end collision in the situation that.For example also can carry out the coupling of rotation speed of the fan, massage pressure, type of massage, foam hardness and seat contours.
For at least one electrode 5 or ribbon conductor being preferably set with at least one sensor 35 contacting, it can be corresponding to the electrode of heating arrangement 100 in type.
At least one sensor 33 is configured to the face 10 to band monitoring.This for example can carry out in the following manner, that is, sensor 33 for example covers the setting by entire surface of described to be monitored 10 with the form of film.Preferably the size of this sensor and the face of weather to be regulated are substantially just equally large.This flower is collected together to have done and for example can be arranged in chair top or backrest face or in spine-supporting part.
Detecting device 30 has preferably at least one load member 9'.This load member preferably with load member 9 same types of at least one heating arrangement 100 form.The preferably load member 9' of at least one detecting device 30 and at least one load member 9 of at least one heating arrangement 100 ' the same.This load member can be additionally formed a part for air guiding device wall or be connected with this air guiding device wall.
At least one heating resistor 4 and at least one sensor 35 can be arranged in identical plane at this, preferably load member 9 in user's a side.Preferably not only at least one heating resistor 4 and at least one sensor 35 are printed on the load member 9 being made up of film but also preferably by same typographic electrode 5 contactings at least in part in this case.
But also can be meaningfully depending on used parts, (not shown) in the different plane that sensor and heating resistor are arranged.Be exactly for example this situation in the case of using the heating resistor of being made by twisted wire (particularly steel), because this heating resistor tends to leave its predetermined linear guide apparatus by the spring force in twisted wire.This suggestion for example at least one heating resistor is fixed on load member on user's upside.At least one sensor preferably arranges, is preferably printed on the rear side that deviates from user of load member.This sensor preferable configuration is capacitor sensor, because its conductor can be located enduringly and accurately.
Also can use different load member 9,9' and they are for example arranged to each interval distance, for example, for heated seats seat and monitoring backrest face.
At least one heating arrangement 100 and at least one detecting device 30 can be arranged in a common circuit.But they also can be arranged in two circuit that separate or depending on demand together switch.
At least one heating arrangement 100 and/or at least one detecting device can be set at least one load member 9,9', at least one is for signal transmission or for receiving responser, at least one integrated circuit or chip and/or for example cond of at least one electrical storage device or the storage battery of signal.
Can on a planar heater element 100, multiple sensors 35 be set as shown in Figure 2.These sensors 35 can arrange on interested especially measurement point 31,32 in heated face 10' inside or be arranged on as shown in Figure 2 heated face 10 " outsides.
Preferred sensor 35 has at least two electrodes 5 as shown in Figure 3, and the resistance of printing heating resistor 4 forms is set between described electrode.Electrode 5 and heating resistor 4 are the part of heating arrangement 100 at the same time.If this system is subject to load by user's load now, heat distribution and/or the hot-fluid by back cushion 8 change.This causes the change of the electric current of local temperature change and/or the heating resistor 4 of flowing through.The two can be detected by sensor 35.
In order to strengthen described effect, cap rock 22 can be set, for example, as the part of multifunctional product 1, described cap rock passes through one or more intervals holding element 7 and heating resistor 4 and electrode 5 spacing distances in basic status.If sensor 35 is subject to load, compressed the and cap rock 22 of interval holding element 7 contacts with heating resistor 4 and/or electrode 5.The heat distribution changing thus can be detected equally.
If described cap rock 22 is at least in part by forming by conductive material, it also can be as the heating resistor 4 between switch and two electrodes 5 of bridge joint.This electric current can be detected and be used as measurement parameter equally.
In the embodiment of Fig. 4, sensor 35' also can have the electrode 5 of oneself ", described electrode is arranged on heating resistor 4 tops.In basic status, described electrode passes through interval holding element 7 and heating resistor 4 spacing distances, thereby does not have electric current to flow through.The in the situation that of mechanical load, the electrode 5 of sensor 35 " is forced on heating resistor 4.Thus, sensor 35' detects the voltage or the electric current that change.In heating resistor 4, make existing temperature change and/or electric current change depending on design.All these changes can be with the measurement parameter that acts on identification personnel.
In the embodiment of Fig. 2, also measurement point 31 can be printed on load member 9, measure the monitoring of the temperature of heating current and/or appearance thereon.The observed reading of the measurement point 31 in to be monitored 10 and being compared to of observed reading by the extra-regional measurement point 32 of user's applied load are to provide covering or the load degree of to be monitored to indicate.Be subject to thermal radiation in load region for example because the compression of foam is significantly higher than the thermal radiation not being subject in load region.
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1 multifunctional product
4 heating resistors
5,5', 5 " electrodes
7 interval holding elements
8 back cushions
9,9' load member
10,10', 10 " faces
22 cap rocks
30 detecting devices
31,32 measurement points
The sensor of 33 to be monitored
35,35' sensor
50,50' pointed tooth portion
100 heating arrangements
110 registers
120 air guiding devices
140 climate regulation devices
150 vehicle
The object of 200 weathers to be regulated
300 seats
400 linings

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1. a multifunctional product (1), for providing at least two functions functional areas, it is characterized in that, described multifunctional product (1) has at least two dissimilar functional devices that are selected from following group: register (110), fridge equipment, heating arrangement (100), climate regulation device, drafting apparatus and circuit, described multifunctional product comprises the heating arrangement (100) with at least one load member (9), at least one electro heat resistance (4) is set on this load member, described multifunctional product has the detecting device (30) of measuring parameter for detection of at least one, the value of described measurement parameter exists relevant with near the personnel this detecting device (30), at least one functional device is provided with at least one electric tape conductor, described electric tape conductor is arranged on load member (9) as coating, and described electric tape conductor is for being printed on PTC or the ag material on described load member (9), described multifunctional product (1) has cap rock (22), described cap rock passes through interval holding element (7) and heating resistor (4) or its electrode (5) spacing distance in basic status, if the sensor (35) of detecting device (30) is subject to load, described cap rock contacts with the electrode (5) of heating resistor (4) or heating resistor (4), described multifunctional product (1) constituting by two or more functional devices substantially, described detecting device (30) is subject to have in section (10) at least one first measurement point (31) and has at least one second measurement point (32) at the second face of stand under load not in (10') at machinery.
2. according to the multifunctional product of claim 1 (1), it is characterized in that, described multifunctional product comprises having the heating arrangement (100) of at least one filament fine workmanship part that can conduct electricity as heating resistor (4), described multifunctional product comprises that at least one has the detecting device of at least one tape conductor (30), and at least one in described parts, i.e. filament fine workmanship part or ribbon conductor extended and arranged between filament fine workmanship part and tape conductor along load member (9) setting and described load member (9).
3. according to the multifunctional product of claim 1 (1), it is characterized in that, at least one detecting device (30) uses at least one tape conductor that is used as heating resistor (4) as measuring value sensor at least in part.
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