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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2007
Koji Hattori, Toyota, JP;
Koji Hattori, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A thermal stimulation apparatus for vehicles capable of exerting an effect of, for example, reducing fatigue and improving the physical condition of a vehicle occupant. In a vehicle thermal stimulation apparatus, the piezoelectric sensordetects a biorhythm accompanying a periodic change in an occupant, a control circuitswitches on and off heater elementson the basis of the detection result of the biorhythm detector such that by the heater elementsbeing switched on and off, thermal stimulus to the occupant is synchronized with the biorhythm of the occupant. It is thereby possible to exert effects of, for example, reducing fatigue and improving the physical condition of a vehicle occupant.