Patent ID: 11857004
Assignee: GENTHERM GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  F  H | IPC A  B  F  H

Claim 9:
10. A heating and cooling system having a sheeted thermally conductive material for distributing heat or coolness across a surface configured to contact a person, the system comprising:
a heating and cooling source for generating heat or coolness;
a flexible sheeted thermally conductive material in thermal communication with the heating and cooling source, the flexible sheeted thermally conductive material configured to distribute heat or coolness generated by the heating and cooling source over a distribution area across the surface configured to contact the person larger than a surface of the heating and cooling source itself; and
a film layer surrounding the flexible sheeted thermally conductive material, the film layer comprising perforations, wherein a thermal interface compound is positioned within the perforations to provide thermal communication between the heating and cooling source and the flexible sheeted thermally conductive material,
wherein the film layer comprises the perforations both on a first side of the flexible sheeted thermally conductive material and on a second side of the flexible sheeted thermally conductive material, the first side opposite the second side, and
wherein the perforations on the first side are offset relative to the perforations on the second side.