Gentherm Gmbh

Alfmeier Präzision Se

Actuator Solutions Gmbh

Erich Doerfler

Ajay Murgod

Igor Spasojevic

Markus Koepfer

David Eisenbacher

Carmen D'Accriscio

Robert Falzon

Andrew Charles White

A comfort assembly for a vehicle seat cushion, the comfort system includes a carrier having a thermal device; a spacer layer attached to the B-side of the carrier; and an effector device attached to the spacer layer so that the spacer layer is between the effector device and the B-side of the carrier; the effector device is attached to the carrier before the comfort assembly is installed onto an A-surface of the cushion of the vehicle seat.

Comfort assembly for a vehicle seat

The present invention is inherent to an actuator subassembly comprising at least one bendable slender structure () mounted on a stationary body base () and carrying on a first surface an installation feature () and a plug () in its distal portion, the bending of the slender structure () being controlled by a shape memory alloy wire () through coupling means () located in its distal portion on a second surface opposite to the first surface. The invention also concerns a fluidic valve incorporating such an actuator subassembly.

Shape memory alloy actuator subassembly and fluidic valve incorporating it

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Landsberg, Germany

Erich Doerfler