Company: THRM
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-023344
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Company: Gentherm Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 is a solid-state circuit that has the capability to produce both hot and cold temperature conditions by use of the Peltier effect. The advantages of advanced TED over conventional compressed gas systems include a reduced environmental impact and less complexity as they have no moving parts and are compact and light weight. Our work on this technology has yielded improvements in areas of functionality, efficiency, durability and performance. 

Air Moving Devices

Our highly durable and quiet air moving devices, some of which include our proprietary blower and fan designs, are essential to all of our products that require air movement. We have a broad portfolio of these products that are tailored to various automotive applications, including seat ventilation and electric vehicle battery cooling.

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Pneumatic

Pneumatic lumbar and massage comfort solutions operate by inflation and deflation of air bladders to achieve desired comfort effect. Our products' differentiation is that our underlying valve technology for regulating air flow is based on shape memory alloy valves ("SMA"). Gentherm has developed actuators and valves with SMA technology that replace heavy, noisy and less accurate solenoid valves. Our innovative control elements produce precise mechanical forces and movements using the finest wires made of memory metals and without the labor-intensive use of additional sensors.

Electronics

The electronics in our climate and comfort solutions are primarily designed and manufactured by us. We also supply value-added electronic products to third parties for adjacent areas within the automotive interior. In addition, Gentherm manufactures and supplies electronic control units for memory seat modules that include electric motor position sensing technology. This technology further applies to other automotive products requiring fine motor controls. 

Valve Technology 

Designed and developed with our extensive expertise in advanced injection molding, our passive and active valves are mechanical, spring-loaded or use solenoids for actuation and pneumatic, as well as the innovative Shape Memory Alloy ("SMA") technology to actuate to control a variety of critical applications, including fuel management, motor engine flap control and brake vacuum support. 

Solutions

ComfortScale™

ComfortScale is our next generation proprietary combined thermal, lumbar and massage system. The flexible design provides the ability to be foam and seat agnostic and can run across all OEMs and Seat Tier 1’s. The scalable and modular system can be designed from lumbar only to fully contented pneumatic and thermal solutions. ComfortScale is expected to drive significant performance improvement and meaningful reduction in complexity, labor costs and logistic costs. Gentherm secured its first ComfortScale award on General Motor's future full size truck platform that