Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Moriyuki Komatsu

Chikahisa Hayashi

Kazushi Noda

Junichi Mizutani

Yoshio Sano

Ryoichi Muroi

Hiroshi Mitsunaga

A vehicle television receiver system comprises a television receiver be easily attached to and detached from the vehicle, engagement means attached to the vehicle and arranged to be actuated to make the television receiver be in an engaged condition when the television receiver is housed in a specific place of the vehicle and release means for making the engagement means and the television receiver be in a released condition when the release means is operated.

Vehicle television receiver system

Apparatus for heating and cooling a steering wheel includes a skin layer coupled to the outside surface of the steering wheel, a heat conductive plate coupled to an inside surface of the skin layer, a thermal storage core extending along a central portion of the steering wheel, and at least one thermoelectric transducer thermally coupled between the heat conductive plate and the thermal storage core. The thermoelectric transducer either generates heat or absorbs heat in accordance with the direction of a current flowing through the transducer. When the steering wheel is hot, current is caused to flow through the transducer in a first direction so that the transducer absorbs heat. The transducer absorbs the heat from the heat conductive plate and passes it to the thermal storage core. In turn, the heat conductive plate absorbs the heat on the skin layer of the steering wheel, thus cooling the steering wheel. When the steering wheel is too cold, the current is caused to flow in a second direction in the transducer so that the transducer generates heat. This generated heat is provided to the heat conductive plate, which in turn, heats the skin layer of the steering wheel.

Heated or cooled steering wheel

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Nagoya, Japan

Moriyuki Komatsu