Beurer Gmbh & Co.

Beurer Gmbh

Ernst Merk

Thomas Strobel

Ralf Köhler

Thomas Wildermuth

Werner Meternek

Marco Bühler

Patricio Roschk

A pliable heating device having a flexible electrical heating apparatus, which is operated by a control device and which has at least one flexible heating element that is connected to a flexible support and that has a heating conductor, which is situated in a heating circuit, and a flexible sensor conductor, which is separated from the heating conductor by an intermediate insulation, having a dampable oscillator, which is contained in the control device and is connected to the sensor conductor and whose output signal can be varied as a function of various functional states of the heating apparatus, which functional states are detected by the sensor conductor, and having an evaluation device by which fault states can be detected from the output signal. In order to reliably detect function states, in particular fault states, the sensor conductor is connected at one end to the heating conductor via a resistor device which is connected in series to it and is of at least an ohmic, a capacitive, and/or an inductive sensor resistor, and is connected at the other end to the oscillator via an ohmic current-limiting resistor.

Pliable heating device

A heating system having an electrical heating conductor arrangement which is integrated into a flexible heating body that can be connected to a supply voltage by a connecting cable and has a first conductor and an adjacent second conductor, placed in series with the first and separated from it by an insulating device, having a heating circuit formed by the heating conductor arrangement and further elements, including a control element for a heating current. A control circuit is connected to the control member for affecting the heating current and regulating the temperature. Monitoring is extended because the insulating device has a resistance characteristic which decreases with temperature. The control circuit is coupled via a monitoring branch to a section of the heating circuit which, as a function of the temperature of the insulating device, responds to a resistance temperature change in the insulating device for picking up an electrical monitoring current or voltage, and the control circuit responds when the monitoring signal exceeds a threshold and interrupts the heating current by triggering the control element.

Heating device having a flexible heating body

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Weiβenhorn, Germany

Ernst Merk