Patent ID: 8859939

Claim:
A carrier for panel heating elements, in particular plastic film, with an electrical heating layer applied to at least a part of a carrier surface and with at least two electrodes provided for connection to a voltage source, wherein the at least two electrodes are connected to the electrical heating layer such that a current path for a heating current is formed between the electrodes, wherein the heating layer is electrically divided by: one or more first separating zones, which have, in each case, at least one free zone end, and are implemented such that the current path changes its direction of flow on the free zone ends, and one or more second separating zones, which are implemented such that the current path changing its direction of flow on the free zone ends is divided at least in sections into a plurality of electrically parallel current subpaths, wherein one or more second separating zones are associated with at least one free zone end of a first separating zone, and are arranged in an aligned extension of the first separating zone.