Patent ID: 8601824

Claim:
A heating and cooling apparatus for a vehicle seat, comprising: a blower blowing air into a duct leading to the vehicle seat; a thermoelectric element assembly connected to the duct and including: a thermoelectric element that heats or cools air introduced toward the vehicle seat from the duct, the thermoelectric element having condensed water passages penetrating the thermoelectric element to allow condensed water to flow therethrough; and first heat sink fins attached to a bottom surface of the thermoelectric element, wherein the first heat sink fins are in an inverse triangular shape; and a flow rate controller provided between the thermoelectric element assembly and the blower and deflecting a flow of air so that more air passes through a cooler than through a heater of the thermoelectric element assembly, thereby facilitating migration of the condensed water through the condensed water passages from the cooler to the heater of the thermoelectric element assembly.