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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
François Fourrey, Corquilleroy, FR;
Assignee:
Bertrand Faure Equipments SA, Boulogne, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 1/02 ;
Abstract
In order to ensure that a vehicle seat, having a supporting face and incorporating microcapsules of phase-change material having a phase transition temperature between 15 and 37° C., is comfortable to use in terms of temperature, the support face is heated or cooled before the seat is used so that the phase-change material is at its transition temperature when a user subsequently sits on the seat.