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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Gentherm Canada Ltd., Windsor, CA;
Jack Barfuss, Windsor, CA;
Syed Rafat Iqbal, Windsor, CA;
Zoran Panic, Windsor, CA;
Ricardo Edmundo Flores Gonzalez, Acuña Coahuila, MX;
Pedro Antunez, Acuña Coahuila, MX;
Wayne Swoyer Kauffman, III, Oak Park, MI (US);
GENTHERM GMBH, Odelzhausen, DE;
Abstract
An improved heating element, comprising: (a) an electrically insulated resistive heating wire; (b) a flexible substrate that supports the electrically insulated resistive wire: (c) one or more electrical connection for an operational component of the heating element, the electrical connection including at least two wires that are joined together; (d) a spacer controlling spacing between the at least two wires approaching the electrical connection; wherein at least a portion of the electrical connection including the spacer is encapsulated in a shrunken heat shrinkable sheath that includes at least one mass of hot melt adhesive within the sheath so that the electrical connection is insulated from fluid penetration.