Patent ID: 8523279
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A heater unit to be used for a vehicle seat assembly comprising: a substrate; a first heater section comprising a single heating wire portion, extending in a first direction; and a second heater section comprising a single heating wire portion, extending in the first direction and provided at a location differing in a second direction from the first heater section, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the first heater section has a first end and a second end in the second direction, the first end of the first heater section being closer to the second heater section than the second end of the first heater section, wherein each of a first plurality of segments of the first heater section bent on the first end of the first heater section and each of a second plurality of segments bent on the second end of the first heater section are disposed in an alternating manner with each other in the first direction and are alternately connected with each other, wherein the second heater section has a first end and a second end in the second direction, the first end of the second heater section being closer to the first heater section than the second end of the second heater section, wherein each of a first plurality of segments of the second heater section bent on the first end of the second heater section and each of a second plurality of segments of the second heater section bent on the second end of second heater section are disposed in an alternating manner with each other in the first direction and are alternately connected with each other, wherein at least a part of the first plurality of segments of the first heater section extends across a center in the second direction between the first heater section and the second heater section, and wherein at least a part of the first plurality of segments of the second heater section extends across the center in the second direction between the first heater section and the second heater section.